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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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10
11JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
12 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
13 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
14 pairs of long lines into single ones.
15
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16PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
17 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
18
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19JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
20 This permits better logging.
21
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22JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
23 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
24 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
25 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
26 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 27 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 28
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29JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
30 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
31 "exiwhat" output.
32
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33PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
34 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
35 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
36
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37JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
38 than 255 are no longer allowed.
39
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40JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
41 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
42 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
43 client, there is no benefit for these.
44 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
45 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
46 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
47 is used (3.2.4 +).
48
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49PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
50 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
51
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52JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
53 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
54 erroneously found still-pending ones.
55
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56JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
57 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
58
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59JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
60 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
61 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
62 signature and again for transmission.
63
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64JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
65 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 66 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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68JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
69 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
70 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
71 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
72 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
73 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
74 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
75
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76JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
77 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
78 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 79 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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81PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
82 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
83 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
84 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
85 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
86 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
87 processing options.
88
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89JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
90 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
91 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
92 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
93 connections.
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95PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
96 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
97 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
98 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
99 versions.
100
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101JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
102 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
103 inaccessible.
104
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105JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
106 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
107 banner-time rejection.
108
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109JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
110 callout/hold.
111
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112PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
113 is the name of a transport.
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114 Fixes bug 2140.
115
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116HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
117
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118JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
119 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
120
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121JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
122 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
123 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
124 during compilation.
125
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126JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
127 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
128 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 129 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 130
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131JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
132 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
133 initial verify call returned a defer.
134
ad1a76fe 135JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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136 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
137
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138JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
139 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
140
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141JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
142 if present. Previously it was ignored.
143
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144JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
145 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
146
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147JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
148 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
149 extensible.
150
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9427e879 155JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 156 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 157
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158JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
159
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160PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
161 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
162
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163JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
164 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
165
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166JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
167 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
168 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
169 before acknowledging the chunk.
170
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171PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
172 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
173 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
174
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175JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
176 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
177 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
178 should.
179
180JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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181 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
182 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 184JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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185 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
186
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187JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
188 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
189 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
190 body hash calculated value.
191
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192JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
193 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
194 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
195
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196JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
197
198JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
199 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
200
201JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
202 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
203 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
204
205JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
206 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
207 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
208 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
209 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
210 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
211
212JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
213 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
214 past that check, despite the cost.
215
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216JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
217 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
218 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
219
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220PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
221 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
222 TLS library to consume.
223
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224PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
225
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226PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
227
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228JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
229 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
230 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
231 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
232 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
233 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
234 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
235
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236PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
237
238PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
239
240PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
241 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
242 should be warning-free.
243
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244JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
245
246HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
247 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
248
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249HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
250 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
251 general solution here.
252
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253PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
254 already-broken messages in the queue.
255
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256JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
257
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258JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
259
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264JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
265 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 266
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267JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
268 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
269 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
270
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271JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
272 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
273 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
274 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
275 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
276 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
277 if one fails this test.
278 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
279 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
280
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281JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
282 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
283
23bb6982 284JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 285 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 286
0bd1b1ed 287JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 288 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 289
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290JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
291 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
292
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293JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
294 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
295
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296JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
297
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298JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
299 certificate).
300
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301JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
302 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
303 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
304 connection after a verify cache hit.
305 Do not update it with the verify result either.
306
307JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
308 when routing results in more than one destination address.
309
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310JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
311 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
312 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
313 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
314 when the cutthrough connection is made).
315
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316JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
317 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
318
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319JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
320 Previously they were not counted.
321
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322JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
323 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
324 that needed the lookup.
325
4c04137d 326JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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327 distinguished as "(=".
328
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329JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
330 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
331
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332JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
333
334JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
335 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 336
4c04137d 337JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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338 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
339
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340JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
341 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
342 compatible.
343
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344JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
345 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
346 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
347 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
348
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349JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
350
f59aaaaa 351JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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352 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
353 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 354
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355JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
356 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
357 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
358 be lost.
359
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360JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
361 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
362 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
363 itself :(
364
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365JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
366 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
367 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
368
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369JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
370 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
371 options.
372
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373JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
374
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375PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
376 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
377
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378PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
379 are not in the system include path.
380
ad7fc6eb 381JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 382 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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383 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
384 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 385
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386JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
387 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
388 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
389
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390JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
391
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392HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
393 an incoming connection.
394
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395HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
396 to rspamd.
397
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398HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
399 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 400
87cb4a16 401JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 402 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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408JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
409 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
410 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
411 client dropping the TLS connection.
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413TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
414 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
415
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416TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
417 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
418 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
419 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
420 outgoing I= field.
421
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422JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
423 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
424 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
425 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
426 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
427 check on the next write.
428
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429HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
430 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
431 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
432 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
433 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
434
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435JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
436 mime_regex ACL conditions.
437
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438JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
439 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
440 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
441
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442JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
443 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
444 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
445 an authenticate fail is not an error.
446
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447HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
448 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
449
4c04137d 450JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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451 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
452
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453JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
454 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
455 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
456 distinct.
457
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458JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
459
460JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
461
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462JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
463
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464JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
465 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
466
98b98887 467JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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468 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
469
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470JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
471
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472JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
473 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
474
475JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
476
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477JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
478 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
479
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480JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
481
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482JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
483 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 484 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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485 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
486 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
487 they will retry in-clear.
488 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
489 at installation time.
490
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491HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
492 with the $config_file variable.
493
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494JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
495 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
496 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
497 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 498 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 499
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500GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
501 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
502 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
503 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
504 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
505
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506JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
507
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508JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
509 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
510 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
511 list order is no longer honoured.
512
4c04137d 513JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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514 for DKIM processing.
515
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516JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
517 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 518
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519JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
520 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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521 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
522 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 523
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524JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
525 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
526
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527JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
528 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
529
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530JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
531 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
532
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533JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
534
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535JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
536 cached by the daemon.
537
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538JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
539 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
540
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541JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
542 keys are given for lookup.
543
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544JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
545 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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546 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
547 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 548
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549JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
550 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
551 server-side so match that on older versions.
552
07c73177 553JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 554 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 555 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 556
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557JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
558 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
559
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560JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
561 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
562 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 563 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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564 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
565 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
566 initial truncated version.
567
ab9152ff 568JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 569
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570JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
571
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572JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
573 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
574
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575JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
576
bc3c7bb7 577HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 578
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579JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
580 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
581 induced overflows.
582
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583JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
584 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
585 stage.
586
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587JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
588 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
589
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590JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
591 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
592 former class.
593
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594JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
595 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
596 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
597
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598JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
599 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
600 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
601 extraction. Accept either.
602
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607JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
608 expanded.
609
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610JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
611
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612JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
613 it.
614
01a4a5c5 615JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 616 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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617 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
618 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
619
cb1d7830 620JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 621 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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622 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
623
610ff438 624JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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625 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
626 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
627 TLS connections
610ff438 628
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629JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
630 sites use this now.
631
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632JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
633 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
634 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
635 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
636 have a dsn_lasthop option.
637
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638JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
639 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 640 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 641
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642JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
643
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644JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
645 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
646
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647JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
648 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
649
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650JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
651 /defer_ok option.
652
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653JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
654 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
655
fd4d8871 656JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 657 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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658 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
659
660JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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661 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
662 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 663
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664JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
665 timeout value per server.
666
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667JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
668 now have the list separator specified.
669
8a512ed5 670JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 671 option values.
8a512ed5 672
82c0c8ea 673JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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674 under OpenSSL.
675
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676JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
677
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678JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
679 rather than the verbs used.
680
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681JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
682 from 255 to 1024 chars.
683
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684JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
685
cfab9d68 686HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 687 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 688
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689JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
690 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
691
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692HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
693 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
694
4c04137d 695JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 696
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697JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
698
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699JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
700 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 701 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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702 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
703
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704JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
705
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706JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
707 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
708
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709JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
710 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
711
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712JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
713
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714JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
715
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716JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
717
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718JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
719 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
720
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721JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
722 added for tls authenticator.
723
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724HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
725
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730TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
731 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
732 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
733 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
734 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
735 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
736 the script parsing/test process like normal.
737
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738TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
739 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
740 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
741 function when detected.
742
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743JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
744 cause callback expansion.
745
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746TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
747 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
748 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
749 instead of bool when processing it.
750
0f06b4f2 751JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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752 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
753
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754JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
755
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756JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
757
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758TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
759
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760TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
761 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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763JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
764 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
765 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
766 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 767 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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768 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
769
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770JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
771 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
772 exceeded it.
773
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774JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
775 version 3.3.6 or later.
776
4c04137d 777JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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778 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
779 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 780 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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781 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
782 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
783 option is defined.
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785TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
786 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
787
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788JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
789 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
790 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
791 matches.
792
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793JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
794 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
795 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
796
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797JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
798 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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799
800JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
801 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
802 syntax errors.
803
3394b36a 804JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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805
806JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
807 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
808
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809TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
810 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
811 tarball.
812
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813JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
814
4c04137d 815JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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816 Bug 1561.
817
818JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
819 output list separator was used.
820
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824TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
825 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
826 return.
1f0ebb98 827
a612424f 828JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 829 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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831JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
832
833TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 834 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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840TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
841
842 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
843 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
844 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
845 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
846 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
847 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
848
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849TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
850 utilities have not been installed.
851
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852JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
853 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
854
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855TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
856 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
857
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858TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
859 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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860 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
861 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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863JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
864
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865TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
866 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
867
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868PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
869 not dns_use_dnssec.
870
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871JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
872
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873TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
874 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
875 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
876
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878 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
879 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
880 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
881 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 882 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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884JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
885
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886JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
887 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
888
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889JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
890 failed delivery.
891
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892JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
893
511a6c14 894JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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895
896JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
897 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
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899JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
900 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
901
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902TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
903
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904JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
905
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906JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
907 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
908
909 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
910 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
911 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
912
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913TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
914 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
915 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
916 analysis.
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918JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
919
8c51eead 920JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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921 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
922 lookup).
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924TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
925 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
926 Schlichting.
35aba663 927
fd3b6a4a 928JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 929 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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931TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
932 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
933
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934JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
935
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936TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
937 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
938 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
939
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940JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
941 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
942
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943JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
944 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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945 hosts_request_ocsp.
946
ed3bba5f 947JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 948 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 949 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 950
8ccd00b1
JH
951JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
952
8ded8589
TL
953TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
954 Christian Aistleitner.
955
f2de3a33
JH
956JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
957
6eb02f88
TL
958TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
959 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
960
00bff6f6
JH
961JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
962 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
963
071c51f7
JH
964JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
965 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
966
a6d4c44e
TF
967TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
968 support and error reporting did not work properly.
969
3ae173e7
ACK
970TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
971 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
972
c13d09b8
TL
973TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
974 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
975 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
976
0df4ab80
JH
977JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
978
66be95e0
PP
979PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
980 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
981 Jasper Wallace.
982
1bd0d12b
JH
983JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
984
0de7239e
TL
985TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
986 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
987 CVE-2014-2972
988
fd3b6a4a 989
2c422e6f 990Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
991-----------------
992
993PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
994
12f69989
PP
995PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
996 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
997
54c90be1
PP
998PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
999 by GnuTLS.
1000
1f4a55da
PP
1001PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1002 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1003 routines.
1004
13363eba 1005PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1006
66645890 1007PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1008 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1009 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1010 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1011 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1012
a3fb9793 1013PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1014 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1015 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1016 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1017 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1018 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1019
d27f98fe 1020TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1021
6822b909
TL
1022TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1023
e7568d51
TL
1024TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1025 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1026
ae0e32ee 1027TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1028 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1029 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1030
1031TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1032
e2658fff
TL
1033TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1034
83712b39
TL
1035TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1036 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1037
976b7e9f
JH
1038JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1039
be4a1376
JH
1040JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1041
ec4b68e5
PP
1042PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1043
d7148a07
NM
1044NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1045 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1046
585121e2 1047JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1048
2519e60d
TL
1049PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1050 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1051 function.
a5f239e4 1052
13d08c90
PP
1053PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1054 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1055
bef3ea7f
JH
1056JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1057 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1058 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1059
846726c5
JH
1060JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1061
3a796370
JH
1062JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1063
ea722490 1064JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1065 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1066
b1b05573
JH
1067JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1068 Bugzilla 884.
1069
362145b5
JH
1070JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1071 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1072
3c0a92dc
JH
1073JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1074 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1075
6d7c6175
PP
1076PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1077 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1078 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1079
6f123593
JH
1080JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1081 authenticators.
1082
c8e2fc1e
JH
1083JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1084 for control.
1085
005ac57f
PP
1086PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1087
3f1df0e3
PP
1088PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1089 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1090 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1091 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1092
67bd1ab3
TF
1093TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1094
1095 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1096 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1097 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1098 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1099 the retry rules.
1100
1101 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1102 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1103 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1104
1105 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1106 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1107 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1108 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1109
1ddeb334
TF
1110 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1111 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1112 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1113 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1114 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1115 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1116 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1117
1118 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1119 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1120
326cdc37
TF
1121TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1122
1123 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1124
1125 Resent-From: f
1126
1127 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1128 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1129 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1130 username as equal to the username.
1131
1132 This change corrects that bug.
1133
f62514b3
GF
1134GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1135 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1136 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1137
eb505532
TF
1138TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1139
14c7b357
PP
1140PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1141 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1142 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1143 NULL dereference and crash.
1144
94eaf700
PP
1145JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1146
6f5a440a
PP
1147PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1148 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1149 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1150
514ee161
SC
1151SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1152
fd98a5c6
JH
1153JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1154 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1155 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1156 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1157 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1158 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1159 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1160 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1161 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1162 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1163 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1164
035c7f1e
PP
1165PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1166 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1167
ff284120
PP
1168PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1169 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1170 Bugzilla 880.
1171
26e72755
PP
1172PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1173 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1174 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1175 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1176 an empty string is now equivalent.
1177
0fbd9bff
PP
1178PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1179 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1180 not performing validation itself.
1181
700d22f3
PP
1182PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1183 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1184
fcc8e047
JH
1185JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1186 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1187
4c04137d 1188TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1189
8c020188
PP
1190PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1191 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1192 other false fix of the same issue.
1193 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1194 Bugzilla 1363.
1195
d13cdd30
PP
1196PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1197 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1198
e2fbf4a2
PP
1199PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1200 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1201 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1202
f4c1088b
PP
1203PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1204 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1205 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1206
c5c2182f
PP
1207TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1208
73431ca9
JH
1209JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1210
2d07a215
TL
1211TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1212 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1213
a30a8861
TL
1214TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1215 Alexander Miroch.
1216
33382dd9
TL
1217TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1218 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1219 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1220 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1221 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1222
046172e6
TL
1223TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1224 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1225
581d7bee 1226TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1227 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1228 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1229
1230TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1231 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1232 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1233 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1234
237b2cf2
TL
1235TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1236
9fc5a352
TL
1237TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1238 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1239 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1240
b10e4ec2
TL
1241TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1242
e2cebd74
TL
1243TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1244 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1245 interaction.
1246
1247TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1248 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1249
2519e60d
TL
1250TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1251 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1252
e78e6ecf 1253
4263f395
PP
1254Exim version 4.80.1
1255-------------------
1256
1257PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1258 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1259 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1260
ea722490 1261
b1770b6e 1262Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1263-----------------
1264
1265PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1266 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1267 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1268
23c7e742
NM
1269NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1270
b322aac8
NM
1271NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1272 improved.
1273
4a891427
NM
1274NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1275
c1e794ba 1276PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1277
97753960
PP
1278PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1279
1280PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1281 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1282
df6303fa
PP
1283PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1284 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1285
7e6a8985
PP
1286PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1287 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1288
f1e05cc7 1289PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1290 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1291 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1292
4c287009
PP
1293PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1294
b98bb9ac
PP
1295PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1296 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1297
4a6a987a
PP
1298PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1299
c45dd180 1300PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1301
7db8d074
PP
1302PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1303 non-compliant senders.
1304 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1305
eae0036b 1306NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1307 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1308 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1309
dec5017e
PP
1310PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1311 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1312 in spool file corruption.
1313
c80c5570
PP
1314PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1315 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1316 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1317 "Got SSL error 2".
1318
076b11e2
PP
1319TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1320 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1321 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1322
5407bfff
JH
1323JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1324 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1325
9e45c72b
PP
1326JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1327
e74376d8
PP
1328PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1329 diagnostics.
1330 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1331
4c04137d 1332PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1333 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1334 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1335
7be682ca
PP
1336PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1337 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1338 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1339 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1340
ef840681
PP
1341PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1342 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1343
5bfb4cdf
PP
1344PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1345 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1346 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1347 resolver implementation change.
1348
c6e95d22
PP
1349PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1350 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1351
9cbad13b
PP
1352PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1353
9ee44efb
PP
1354PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1355
6a6084f8
PP
1356PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1357 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1358
12dd53c7
PP
1359PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1360 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1361
9e45c72b 1362JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1363 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1364
17c76198
PP
1365PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1366 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1367 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1368 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1369 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1370
53947857 1371PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1372
eae0036b 1373PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1374 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1375 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1376
9e45c72b 1377JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1378
7390e768
PP
1379PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1380 read-only, out of scope).
1381 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1382
08488c86
PP
1383PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1384 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1385 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1386 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1387
6475bd82
PP
1388PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1389
81f91683
PP
1390PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1391 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1392 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1393 real issues in debug logging.
1394
5779e6aa
PP
1395PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1396 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1397
3375e053
PP
1398PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1399 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1400 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1401
1402PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1403 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1404 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1405 problems.
3375e053 1406
9d26b8c0
PP
1407PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1408 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1409
57eb9e91 1410PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1411 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1412 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1413 needs to override this, it can.
1414
16880d1a
PP
1415PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1416 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1417 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1418
a799883d
PP
1419PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1420 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1421 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1422 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1423
3ecab157 1424PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1425
0599f9cf 1426
867fcbf5
PP
1427Exim version 4.77
1428-----------------
1429
1430PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1431 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1432
f1a29782
TF
1433TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1434
ab42bd23
TK
1435TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1436 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1437
0ca0cf52
TF
1438TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1439 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1440
921b12ca
TF
1441TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1442 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1443 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1444
1445 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1446 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1447 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1448 not safe for signals.
1449
1450 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1451 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1452 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1453 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1454 exiwhat.
1455
c99ce5c9
TF
1456TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1457
1458 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1459 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1460 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1461 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1462 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1463
1464 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1465 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1466 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1467 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1468 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1469 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1470
1471 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1472 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1473 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1474 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1475
1476 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1477 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1478 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1479 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1480
1481 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1482 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1483 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1484 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1485 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1486 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1487 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1488 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1489 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1490
1491 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1492 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1493 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1494 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1495
1496 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1497 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1498 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1499 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1500 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1501 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1502 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1503 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1504 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1505 details in the main documentation.
1506
3634fc25
TF
1507TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1508
792e8a19
TF
1509TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1510
5901f0ab
TF
1511TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1512 repository when doing development or release builds.
1513
7f2a2a43
PP
1514PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1515 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1516
061b7ebd
PP
1517PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1518 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1519 Bugzilla 97.
1520
e12f8c32
PP
1521PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1522
9e949f00 1523PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1524 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1525
1526PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1527 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1528
555ae6af 1529PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1530 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1531
1532PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1533 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1534
6f7fe114
PP
1535PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1536 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1537
c566dd90
PP
1538PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1539 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1540 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1541 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1542
d6cc7c78 1543PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1544 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1545 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1546
0d0e4455
PP
1547PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1548
3399bb60 1549PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1550
1551PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1552 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1553
0ca0cf52 1554
10906672
PP
1555Exim version 4.76
1556-----------------
1557
1558PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1559
754a0503
PP
1560PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1561 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1562
c0c7b2da
PP
1563PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1564
e97d1f08
PP
1565PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1566
084c1d8c
PP
1567PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1568 Bugzilla 1098.
1569
4e7ee012
PP
1570PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1571 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1572
c8d52a00
PP
1573TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1574 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1575
54e7ce4a
PP
1576PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1577 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1578
5ee6f336
PP
1579PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1580 Bugzilla 1104.
1581
c8d52a00 1582TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1583 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1584
1585TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1586 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1587 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1588 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1589
1590PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1591 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1592
10906672 1593
aa097c4c
NM
1594Exim version 4.75
1595-----------------
1596
4c04137d 1597NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1598 Bugzilla 1073
1599
7f3d9eff
TF
1600TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1601 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1602 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1603
159f52d2
TF
1604TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1605 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1606
0cc9542a
PP
1607PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1608 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1609 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1610
f7274286
PP
1611PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1612 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1613
7b797365
PP
1614PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1615 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1616
caacae52
NM
1617NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1618 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1619
09dcaba9
NM
1620NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1621 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1622
bc19a55b
PP
1623PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1624 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1625
bd4c9759
NM
1626NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1627 Fixes bug 943.
1628
b72aab72
PP
1629PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1630 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1631
2fe76745
PP
1632PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1633 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1634
76aa570c
PP
1635PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1636 SQL string expansion failure details.
1637 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1638
f1e5fef5
PP
1639PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1640 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1641
4d805ee9
PP
1642PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1643 extern declarations in function scope.
1644 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1645
cd59ab18
PP
1646PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1647 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1648 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1649 a kernel bug).
1650
332f5cf3
PP
1651PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1652 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1653
29cfeb94
PP
1654PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1655 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1656
660242ad
PP
1657PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1658 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1659
bc4bc4c5
PP
1660PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1661 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1662
2e64baa9
NM
1663NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1664 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1665 Dennis Davis.
1666
4c04137d 1667PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1668
6bac1a9a
PP
1669PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1670
552193f0
NM
1671NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1672 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1673
1b587e48
TF
1674TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1675 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1676
aa097c4c 1677
8c07b69f
TF
1678Exim version 4.74
1679-----------------
1680
1681TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1682 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1683
c0ea85ab
TF
1684TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1685 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1686
0761d44e
TF
1687TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1688
0a349494
PP
1689DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1690 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1691 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1692
1693PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1694 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1695 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1696
fea24b2e
PP
1697PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1698 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1699 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1700 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1701
6545de78
PP
1702PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1703 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1704 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1705 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1706
1670ef10
PP
1707PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1708 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1709 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1710 arbitrary files.
1711
c0886197
PP
1712PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1713 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1714
b7487bce
PP
1715PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1716 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1717 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1718 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1719 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1720
8c07b69f 1721
97fd1e48 1722Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1723-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1724
1725PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1726 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1727 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1728
6901c596
PP
1729PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1730 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1731
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1732JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1733
77bb000f
PP
1734PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1735
a29e5231
PP
1736PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1737
ec5a0394 1738PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1739
55c75993
PP
1740PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1741
453a6645 1742PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1743 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1744 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1745 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1746
8544e77a
PP
1747PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1748 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1749 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1750 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1751 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1752
83e029d5
PP
1753PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1754
ed7f7860
PP
1755PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1756
7d9f747b
PP
1757PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1758
4b2241d2
PP
1759PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1760
10385c15
PP
1761PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1762
dbc4b90d
PP
1763PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1764
532be449
PP
1765PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1766
6a8de854 1767PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1768 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1769 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1770
5dc43717
JJ
1771JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1772
1773JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1774 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1775
3346ab01
PP
1776PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1777 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1778
491fab4c
PP
1779PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1780 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1781 Notification from John Horne.
1782
13eb9497
PP
1783PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1784 compatible.
1785
1786PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1787 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1788 it normally works.
1789
7f36d675
DW
1790DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1791 access.
1792
c1d94452
DW
1793DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1794 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1795 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1796
e2f5dc15
DW
1797DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1798 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1799 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1800 configuration file.
1801
cd25e41d
DW
1802DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1803 option (effectively making it always true).
1804
261dc43e
DW
1805DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1806 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1807
fa32850b
DW
1808DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1809 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1810
79d4bc3d
PP
1811PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1812 run-time user, instead of root.
1813
43236f35 1814PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1815 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1816
fb08281f
DW
1817DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1818 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1819 arguments.
3346ab01 1820
74935b98
DW
1821DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1822 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1823 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1824
90b6341f
DW
1825DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1826
57730b52
ML
1827NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1828
66581d1e 1829
465e92cf
JJ
1830Exim version 4.72
1831-----------------
1832
453a6645
PP
1833JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1834 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1835 typos
465e92cf 1836
453a6645
PP
1837JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1838 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1839 (Finput)
edae0343 1840
9bd3e22c
NM
1841NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1842 Patch from Alain Williams
1843
bb576ff7
NM
1844NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1845
5a1a5845
NM
1846NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1847 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1848
981a9fad
NM
1849NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1850 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1851
7fc497ee
NM
1852NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1853
1a41defa
JJ
1854JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1855
a466095c 1856NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1857 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1858
94a6bd0b
NM
1859TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1860
1861TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1862
1863MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1864 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1865 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1866
c1b141a8
NM
1867NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1868 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1869
b26eacf1 1870NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1871 Patch by Simon Arlott
1872
179c5980 1873PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1874 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1875
9bd3e22c 1876
7c6d71af
NM
1877Exim version 4.71
1878-----------------
1879
7d9f747b 1880TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1881
f013fb92
NM
1882NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1883
0eb8eedd
NM
1884NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1885
663ee6d9
NM
1886NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1887
177ebd9b
NM
1888NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1889
7c6d71af 1890
210f147e
NM
1891Exim version 4.70
1892-----------------
1893
cdd3bb85 1894TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1895 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1896
1897TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1898 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1899 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1900
1901TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1902 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1903 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1904
1905TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1906 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1907
210f147e
NM
1908NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1909 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1910 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1911 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1912
deafd5b3
NM
1913NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1914 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1915 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1916
089793a4
TF
1917TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1918
5f16ca82
TF
1919TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1920
dae9d94e 1921NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1922 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1923
7d9f747b 1924NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1925
06864c44
TF
1926TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1927 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1928 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1929 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1930
65a7d8c3 1931NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1932 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1933
23510047 1934TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1935
7d9f747b 1936NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1937
7d8eec3a 1938NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1939 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1940
89dec7b6
TF
1941TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1942 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1943
a99de90c
TF
1944TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1945 that they are available at delivery time.
1946
e2803e40
TF
1947TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1948
7199e1ee
TF
1949TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1950 incoming_port log selectors.
1951
e276e04b
TF
1952TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1953 setting expands to an empty string.
1954
ce552449 1955NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1956 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1957
e765a0f1 1958NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1959 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1960
4f054c63 1961NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1962 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1963
7d9f747b
PP
1964NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1965 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1966
7d9f747b
PP
1967NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1968 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1969
b52bc06e 1970NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1971 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1972
447de4b0
NM
1973NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1974
4c69d561 1975NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1976 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1977
d5c39246 1978NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1979 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1980
0b23848a
TK
1981TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1982
8f3414a1 1983NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1984 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1985
fb6f955d
NM
1986NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1987
1988NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1989
7d9f747b
PP
1990NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1991 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1992
7d9f747b
PP
1993NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1994 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1995
7d9f747b
PP
1996NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1997 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1998
7d9f747b
PP
1999NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2000 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2001
7d9f747b
PP
2002NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2003 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2004
7d9f747b
PP
2005NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2006 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2007
7d9f747b
PP
2008NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2009 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2010
7d9f747b 2011NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2012 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2013
7d9f747b 2014NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2015
7d9f747b
PP
2016NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2017 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2018
7d9f747b 2019NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2020
7d9f747b 2021NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2022
7d9f747b 2023NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2024
7d9f747b 2025NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2026
17792b53 2027NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2028 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2029
7d9f747b
PP
2030NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2031 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2032
91576cec 2033NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2034 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2035
7d9f747b
PP
2036NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2037 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2038
7d9f747b 2039NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2040
7d9f747b 2041NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2042
7d9f747b 2043NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2044
7d9f747b 2045NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2046
deafd5b3 2047
47db1125
NM
2048Exim version 4.69
2049-----------------
2050
4b3504d0
TK
2051TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2052 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2053 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2054
2055 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2056 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2057 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2058 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2059 build errors in sieve.c.
2060
81ea09ca
NM
2061NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2062 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2063 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2064
f13cddcb
SC
2065SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2066
7d9f747b 2067NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2068
7d9f747b 2069NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2070
7d9f747b 2071NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2072
2073
eb4c0de6
PH
2074Exim version 4.68
2075-----------------
2076
2077PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2078
6a3bceb1
PH
2079PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2080 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2081 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2082 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2083 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2084 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2085 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2086 for iplsearch lookups.
2087
2088 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2089 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2090 previously such lookups could never work.
2091
4c04137d 2092 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2093 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2094 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2095
2e30fa9d
TK
2096TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2097 version.
2098
0806a9c5
MH
2099MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2100 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2101 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2102 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2103 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2104 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2105
ae276964
TK
2106TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2107 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2108
0f2cbd1b
MH
2109MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2110 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2111 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2112 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2113 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2114 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2115
2b85bce7
PH
2116PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2117 local_scan API.
2118
93655c46
PH
2119PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2120
6c512171
PH
2121PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2122 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2123 encrypted.
2124
2125PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2126 by clients under certain conditions.
2127
aa6dc513
PH
2128PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2129 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2130
a96603a0
PH
2131PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2132
8f240103
PH
2133PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2134 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2135
2136PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2137
d677b2f2
PH
2138PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2139
d52120f2
PH
2140PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2141
64f2600a
PH
2142PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2143 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2144
8669f003
PH
2145PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2146
a4dc33a8
PH
2147PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2148 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2149
d6a60c0f
PH
2150PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2151
8f128379
PH
2152PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2153
8932dffe
PH
2154PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2155 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2156 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2157 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2158
ddea74fa 2159PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2160 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2161 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2162
ddea74fa 2163PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2164 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2165
ddea74fa
PH
2166PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2167
ce9f225c
PH
2168PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2169
19897d52
PH
2170PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2171
bc64a74d
PH
2172PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2173 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2174 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2175
eb4c0de6 2176
b4ed4da0
PH
2177Exim version 4.67
2178-----------------
2179
22ad45c9
MH
2180MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2181 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2182 Jan Srzednicki.
2183
b4ed4da0
PH
2184PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2185 issue a MAIL command.
2186
431b7361
PH
2187PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2188
2189 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2190
2191 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2192 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2193 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2194 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2195 item. This has been fixed.
2196
2197PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2198 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2199
83da1223
PH
2200PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2201 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2202
54fc8428
PH
2203PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2204 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2205 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2206
34c5e8dd
SC
2207SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2208
bbe15da8
PH
2209PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2210 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2211 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2212 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2213 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2214
0e8a9471
MH
2215MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2216 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2217 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2218
f0872424
PH
2219PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2220 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2221 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2222 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2223
b01dd148
PH
2224PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2225
6bf342e1
PH
2226PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2227
273f34d0
PH
2228PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2229 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2230 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2231 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2232 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2233
cf8b11a5
PH
2234PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2235
41c7c167
PH
2236PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2237 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2238 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2239 values).
2240
9c57cbc0
PH
2241PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2242
f3f065bb
PH
2243PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2244
047bdd8c
PH
2245PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2246
0ce9abe6
PH
2247PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2248
0e22dfd1
PH
2249PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2250
4c590bd1
PH
2251PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2252 no_callout_flush is set.
2253
09945f1e
PH
2254PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2255 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2256 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2257 fixed.
2258
c51b8e75
PH
2259PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2260
e28326d8 2261PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2262 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2263 other ACL rejections are.
2264
75b1493f
PH
2265PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2266 with slight modification.
2267
7c5214ec
PH
2268PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2269 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2270
4311097e
PH
2271PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2272 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2273 connection.
2274
29f89cad
PH
2275PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2276 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2277
5e687460
SC
2278SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2279
c3611384
PH
2280PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2281 expansion side effects.
2282
5a11a7b4
PH
2283PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2284 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2285 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2286 be the same.
2287
0e20aff9
MH
2288MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2289 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2290 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2291
ca86f471
PH
2292PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2293 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2294 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2295 were accidentally chopped off.
2296
a14e5636
PH
2297PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2298 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2299 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2300 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2301 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2302 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2303 pipelining has not been advertised.
2304
ec95d1a6
PH
2305PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2306
42855d71
PH
2307PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2308 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2309 This has been fixed.
2310
57c2c631
PH
2311PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2312 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2313 reported on Solaris.
2314
58c01c94
PH
2315PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2316 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2317 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2318 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2319 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2320 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2321 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2322
dee5a20a
PH
2323PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2324 cpus.
2325
d2ee6114
PH
2326PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2327
b2d5182b
PH
2328PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2329
79749a79
PH
2330PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2331 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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PH
2332 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2333 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2334 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2335 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2336
c456d9bb
PH
2337PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2338 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2339 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2340 host_all_ignored option.
2341
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PH
2342PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2343 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2344 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2345 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2346 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2347 is what is supposed to happen).
2348
ebeaf996
PH
2349PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2350 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2351 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2352 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2353 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2354 uses the Exim user.
2355
2679d413
PH
2356PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2357 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2358 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2359 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2360 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2361 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2362 users.
2363
84024b72
PH
2364PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2365
8005d38e
SC
2366SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2367 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2368 (Jez Hancock).
2369 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2370 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2371
3298c6c6
SC
2372SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2373
a43a27c5
PH
2374PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2375
58eb016e 2376PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2377 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2378 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2379 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2380 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2381 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2382 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2383 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2384 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2385 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2386 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2387
b43a74ea
PH
2388PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2389 advertised in response to EHLO.
2390
b4ed4da0 2391
5dd1517f
PH
2392Exim version 4.66
2393-----------------
2394
2395PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2396 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2397
2398 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2399 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2400
2401 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2402 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2403 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2404
2405 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2406 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2407 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2408 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2409 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2410
2411
93cfa765
TK
2412Exim version 4.65
2413-----------------
2414
2415TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2416 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2417 versions. (#438)
2418
d6066548
MH
2419MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2420 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2421 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2422
4362ff0d
PH
2423PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2424 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2425 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2426 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2427 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2428 rather than extend the field.
2429
93cfa765 2430
944e9e9c
TF
2431Exim version 4.64
2432-----------------
aa41d2de 2433
21d74bd9
TK
2434TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2435 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2436 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2437 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2438 these files.
2439
2440TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2441 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2442 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2443
2444TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2445 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2446 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2447
2448TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2449 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2450 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2451 in the field name.
2452
2b1c6e3a
PH
2453PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2454 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2455 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2456 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2457 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2458 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2459 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2460 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2461 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2462 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2463 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2464
1f872c80
PH
2465PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2466 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2467
2468PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2469 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2470 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2471 ignores EPIPE as well.
2472
d203e649
PH
2473PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2474 (quoted-printable decoding).
2475
cc2ed8f7 2476PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2477 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2478
ddfcd446
PH
2479PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2480
d45b1de8
PH
2481PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2482
2483PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2484
38a0a95f 2485PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2486 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2487
a2405d83
JJ
2488JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2489 in 4.64-PH/09.
2490
2491JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2492 miscellaneous code fixes
2493
6ea85e9a
PH
2494PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2495 rejections.
2496
26da7e20
PH
2497PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2498 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2499 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2500 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2501 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2502 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2503 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2504 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2505
14aa5a05 2506PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2507 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2508 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2509 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2510 function.
2511 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2512 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2513 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2514 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2515 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2516 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2517 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2518 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2519 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2520
ff75a1f7
PH
2521PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2522 decoding.
2523
e6f6568e
PH
2524PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2525 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2526 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2527 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2528 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2529 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2530 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2531 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2532
d6f6e0dc
PH
2533PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2534 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2535 list.
2536
322050c2
PH
2537PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2538 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2539 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2540 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2541 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2542 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2543 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2544 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2545 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2546 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2547 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2548 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2549 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2550
08955dd3
PH
2551PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2552 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2553 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2554 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2555 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2556 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2557 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2558
1eccaa59
PH
2559PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2560 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2561 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2562 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2563 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2564 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2565 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2566 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2567 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2568 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2569
602e59e5
PH
2570PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2571 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2572 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2573 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2574 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2575
411ef850
PH
2576PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2577 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2578 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2579 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2580 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2581 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2582 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2583
7befa435
PH
2584PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2585 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2586 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2587 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2588 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2589 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2590 been verified.
2591
48da4259 2592PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2593 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2594 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2595 and authorization.)
2596
48da4259
PH
2597PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2598 if any retry times were supplied.
2599
d1d5595c
PH
2600PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2601 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2602 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2603
0ef732d9
PH
2604PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2605
328895cc
PH
2606PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2607
fd700877
PH
2608PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2609 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2610 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2611 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2612 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2613 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2614
8dce1a6f
PH
2615PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2616 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2617
17af4a17
PH
2618PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2619 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2620 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2621
2622PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2623 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2624 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2625 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2626 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2627 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2628 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2629 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2630 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2631
2632 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2633 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2634 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2635 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2636 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2637 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2638 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2639 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2640 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2641
2642 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2643 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2644 hammering the server.
2645
c1114884
PH
2646PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2647 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2648
7a0743eb
PH
2649PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2650
0d85fa3f
PH
2651PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2652 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2653 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2654
1bf43b78
PH
2655PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2656 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2657 one case where this was not true.
2658
520de300
PH
2659PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2660 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2661 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2662 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2663 fails.
2664
48c7f9e2
PH
2665PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2666 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2667 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2668 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2669 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2670 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2671 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2672 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2673 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2674 smtp transport.
2675
99ea1c86
PH
2676PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2677 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2678 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2679 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2680
a2042e78
PH
2681PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2682 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2683
4fbcfc2e
PH
2684PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2685 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2686 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2687
aa41d2de
PH
2688PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2689
af561417
PH
2690PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2691
3cc66b45
PH
2692PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2693
194cc0e4
PH
2694PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2695 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2696 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2697 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2698
a401ddaa
PH
2699PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2700 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2701
4e88a19f
PH
2702PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2703 be meaningful with "accept".
2704
d7d7b289
SC
2705SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2706 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2707
2708SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2709 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2710 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2711
2712SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2713 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2714 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2715 there is data to show.
2716 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2717
2718SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2719 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2720 as well as the number of messages.
2721
2722SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2723 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2724 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2725
2726SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2727 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2728 have a flag are now skipped.
2729
2730SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2731 Added the -emptyok flag.
2732
2733SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2734 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2735
0ea2a468
JJ
2736JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2737 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2738 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2739
2740JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2741 match 4.64-PH/13
2742
2743JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2744 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2745
2746JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2747
2748JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2749 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2750
8a10f5a4
PH
2751PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2752
30e18802
PH
2753PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2754 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2755 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2756 contravention of the specifications.
2757
55728a4f
PH
2758PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2759 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2760 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2761
d7837193
PH
2762PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2763 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2764 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2765
87054a31
PH
2766PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2767
ea2c01d2
MH
2768MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2769 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2770 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2771 some point in the past.
2772
e4fa6968
PH
2773PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2774 transport during callout processing was broken.
2775
56f5d9bd
PH
2776PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2777 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2778
922e1c28
PH
2779PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2780 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2781
21eb6e72
PH
2782PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2783 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2784
a0540757
PH
2785PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2786
944e9e9c 2787
478be7b0
SC
2788Exim version 4.63
2789-----------------
2790
2791SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2792 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2793
2794SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2795 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2796 there is data to show.
2797 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2798
2799SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2800 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2801
2b965a65
TF
2802TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2803 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2804
45b91596
PH
2805TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2806 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2807
c59f5781
TF
2808TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2809 submissions from trusted users.
2810
90fc3069
TF
2811TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2812 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2813
6083aca0
TF
2814TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2815 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2816 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2817 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2818 there is now a framework to start from.
2819
765b530f
PH
2820PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2821 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2822 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2823
4e167a8c
PH
2824PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2825
4608d683
PH
2826PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2827
b8dc3e4a
PH
2828PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2829
5418e93b
PH
2830PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2831 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2832 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2833
b4a9bda2
PH
2834PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2835 libradius.
2836
45b91596
PH
2837PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2838 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2839 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2840
5547e2c5
PH
2841PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2842 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2843 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2844 its arguments.
2845
dbcef0ea
PH
2846PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2847 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2848 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2849 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2850 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2851
25257489
PH
2852PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2853 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2854
c816d124
PH
2855PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2856
a9ccd69a
PH
2857PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2858 operations in malware.c.
2859
75fa1910
PH
2860PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2861 signatures.
2862
a7d7aa58
PH
2863PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2864 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2865 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2866 all.
2867
42119b09
PH
2868PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2869 statements to "add_header".
2870
41609df5
PH
2871PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2872 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2873
a5bd321b
PH
2874PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2875 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2876 latter.
2877
e85a7ad5 2878PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2879 so that it is now:
2880
e85a7ad5
PH
2881 ${if or { \
2882 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2883 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2884 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2885 }{no}{yes}}
2886
e85a7ad5
PH
2887 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2888 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2889
d8fe1c03
PH
2890PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2891 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2892
16282d2b
PH
2893PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2894 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2895 any possible encoding problems.
2896
35d40a98
PH
2897PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2898 but not after initializing Perl.
2899
034d99ab
PH
2900PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2901 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2902 apparently, which is not desirable.
2903
6ec97b1b
PH
2904PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2905 queries.
2906
e22ca4ac
JJ
2907JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2908 --not options
2909
2910JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2911
33d73e3b
PH
2912PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2913 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2914 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2915 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2916
9ecb03f3
PH
2917PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2918 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2919 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2920
084efe8d
PH
2921PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2922 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2923 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2924 0.12.
2925
366fc9f0
PH
2926PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2927 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2928 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2929 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2930 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2931
c59f5781 2932
c887c79e
TF
2933Exim version 4.62
2934-----------------
2935
2936TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2937 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2938
1cce3af8
PH
2939PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2940 patch).
2941
afb3eaaf
PH
2942PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2943 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2944 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2945 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2946 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2947 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2948 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2949 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2950 451 error is used.
2951
e173618b
PH
2952PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2953
dd16e114
PH
2954PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2955 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2956 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2957
f7fd3850
PH
2958PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2959 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2960 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2961 odd errors.
2962
d87df92c
PH
2963PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2964 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2965
7e9f683d
PH
2966PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2967 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2968 option (which defaults to 0600).
2969
bfad5236
PH
2970PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2971
01c490df
PH
2972PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2973 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2974 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2975 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2976 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2977 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2978 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2979
d6629cdc
PH
2980PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2981
1cce3af8 2982
214e2000
PH
2983Exim version 4.61
2984-----------------
2985
2986PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2987 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2988 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2989 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2990 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2991 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2992 addresses as local.
2993
f9daeae0
PH
2994PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2995 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2996
7e66e54d
PH
2997PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2998
c8ea1597
PH
2999PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3000 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3001 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3002 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3003 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3004 grumble.
3005
911f6fde
PH
3006PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3007 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3008
47ca6d6c
PH
3009PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3010 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3011 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3012 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3013 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3014
ed0e9820
PH
3015PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3016 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3017 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3018 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3019
eff37e47
PH
3020PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3021 be the same on different OS.
3022
1921d2ea
PH
3023PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3024 testing.
3025
b3f69ca8
JJ
3026JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3027 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3028
3029JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3030 in 4.61-PH/06
3031
424a1c63
PH
3032PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3033 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3034 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3035 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3036 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3037 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3038 bounce message.
3039
7a100415
PH
3040PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3041 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3042 when Exim was called.
3043
19b9dc85
PH
3044PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3045 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3046
309bd837
PH
3047PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3048 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3049 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3050 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3051
59e82a2a
PH
3052PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3053 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3054 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3055 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3056 changes:
3057
3058 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3059 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3060 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3061
3062 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3063 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3064 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3065
9edc04ce
PH
3066PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3067 feature).
3068
1349e1e5
PH
3069PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3070 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3071 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3072 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3073 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3074 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3075 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3076 values from the SRV records were lost.
3077
ea49d0e1
PH
3078PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3079 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3080 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3081
064a94c9
PH
3082PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3083 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3084 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3085
727071f8
PH
3086PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3087 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3088 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3089 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3090 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3091 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3092 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3093 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3094 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3095 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3096
f78eb7c6
PH
3097PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3098 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3099 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3100
21c28500
PH
3101PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3102 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3103
3104PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3105 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3106 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3107 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3108 is given.
3109
1688f43b
PH
3110PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3111 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3112 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3113
3114PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3115 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3116 PH/23 above applies.
3117
9675b384
PH
3118PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3119 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3120 (for which there is an explicit test).
3121
6a3f1455
PH
3122PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3123
dac79d3e
PH
3124PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3125 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3126 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3127 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3128 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3129
5977a0b3
PH
3130PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3131 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3132 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3133 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3134
c91535f3
PH
3135PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3136 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3137 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3138
0d46a8c8
PH
3139PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3140
278c6e6c
PH
3141PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3142
2cbb4081
PH
3143PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3144 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3145 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3146
3eef829e
PH
3147PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3148 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3149 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3150 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3151 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3152
1ab95fa6
PH
3153PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3154 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3155 the message gets confusing).
3156
230205fc
PH
3157PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3158 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3159 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3160 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3161
75e0e026
PH
3162PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3163 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3164 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3165 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3166 same order.
3167
3168PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3169 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3170 the different processes.
3171
145396a6
PH
3172PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3173
3cd34f13
PH
3174PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3175
11121d3d
JJ
3176JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3177 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3178
3179JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3180 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3181
3182JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3183 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3184 messages matching specified criteria.
3185
8def5aaf
PH
3186PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3187
929ba01c
PH
3188PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3189 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3190
2632889e
PH
3191PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3192 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3193 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3194 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3195 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3196 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3197 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3198 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3199 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3200 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3201
944a9c55
PH
3202PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3203 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3204 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3205
4a23603b
PH
3206PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3207
4730f942
PH
3208PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3209 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3210 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3211 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3212 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3213 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3214 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3215 the variable.
3216
30dba1e6
PH
3217PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3218 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3219
382afc6b
PH
3220PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3221
a86229cf
PH
3222PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3223
50c99ba6
PH
3224PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3225
d35e429d
PH
3226PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3227 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3228 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3229 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3230 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3231 size of the count of files.
3232
f90d018c
PH
3233PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3234
75def545
PH
3235PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3236 used in LMTP mode:
3237
3238 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3239 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3240 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3241 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3242
3243 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3244 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3245 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3246
3247PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3248 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3249 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3250 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3251 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3252
c46782ef
PH
3253PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3254 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3255
71fafd95
PH
3256PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3257 will now be deprecated.
3258
2c5db4fd
PH
3259PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3260
9cf6b11a
JJ
3261JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3262 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3263 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3264
3265JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3266 with very large, slow to parse queues
3267
3268JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3269
3270JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3271
898d150f
PH
3272PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3273 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3274 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3275 SMTP output lines.
3276
46218253
PH
3277PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3278 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3279 Sieve code now uses this.
3280
e97957bc
PH
3281PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3282 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3283
81e509d7
PH
3284PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3285 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3286
3d240ff7
PH
3287PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3288
b37c4101
PH
3289PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3290 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3291 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3292 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3293 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3294
79378e0f
PH
3295PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3296 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3297 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3298 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3299
e49c7bb4
PH
3300PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3301
d114ec46
PH
3302PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3303
f3d7df6c
PH
3304PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3305 is preferred over IPv4.
3306
715ab376
PH
3307PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3308 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3309 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3310 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3311 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3312 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3313 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3314
6b31b150
PH
3315PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3316 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3317 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3318
3319PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3320
d515a917
PH
3321PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3322 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3323 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3324 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3325 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3326 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3327 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3328 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3329 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3330 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3331 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3332
9b8fadde
PH
3333PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3334 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3335 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3336
214e2000 3337
5de37277
PH
3338Exim version 4.60
3339-----------------
3340
cc38ddbf
PH
3341PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3342
3343 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3344 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3345
3346 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3347 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3348 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3349
72fdd6ae
PH
3350PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3351
3352 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3353 not a single digit.
3354
3355 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3356 string.
3357
3358 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3359 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3360 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3361 silly things.
3362
3363 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3364 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3365
3366 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3367 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3368
cb741023
PH
3369PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3370 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3371 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3372
f174f16e
PH
3373PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3374 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3375
c25242d7
PH
3376PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3377 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3378
3379 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3380
3381 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3382 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3383 this:
3384
3385 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3386
82c19f95
PH
3387PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3388 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3389 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3390 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3391 identical. For example:
3392
3393 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3394
3395 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3396 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3397 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3398
d7ffbc12
PH
3399PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3400 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3401 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3402 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3403
9f526266
PH
3404PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3405 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3406 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3407 message.
3408
87fcc8b9
PH
3409PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3410
3411 o fixes some comments
3412 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3413 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3414 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3415 and documents the missing references header update
3416
3417 and most important:
3418
3419 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3420 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3421 result)
3422
456682f5
PH
3423PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3424 Electronic Mail") by including:
3425
3426 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3427
3428 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3429 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3430 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3431 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3432 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3433
3434 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3435
3436 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3437
3438 The auto-replied keyword:
3439
3440 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3441 message by an automatic process,
3442
3443 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3444
3445 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3446 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3447
3448 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3449 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3450 other messages.
3451
3e46c1aa
PH
3452PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3453 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3454
49826d12
PH
3455PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3456
eba0c039
PH
3457PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3458 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3459 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3460
a0d6ba8a
PH
3461PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3462 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3463 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3464
f0917727
PH
3465PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3466 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3467 and treats the condition as false.
3468
096fee00
PH
3469PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3470
024bd3c2
PH
3471PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3472 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3473 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3474 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3475 not changing the active code.
3476
3477 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3478 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3479
3480 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3481 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3482
df199fec
PH
3483PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3484 (Bugzilla #53).
3485
d27f1df3
PH
3486PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3487 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3488 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3489 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3490 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3491 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3492 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3493 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3494 the text comparison.
3495
96776534
PH
3496PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3497 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3498 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3499 The same fix has been applied.
3500
5de37277 3501
9a799bc0
PH
3502Exim version 4.54
3503-----------------
3504
3505PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3506 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3507 It now does.
3508
99a4b039
PH
3509PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3510 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3511
3512PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3513
4b233853
PH
3514PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3515 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3516 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3517 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3518 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3519
8857ccfd
PH
3520TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3521 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3522 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3523 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3524 or /domain=).
3525
433a2980
PH
3526PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3527 testing suite.
3528
3e46c1aa 3529
9a799bc0 3530
e3a311ba
TK
3531Exim version 4.53
3532-----------------
3533
3534TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3535 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3536
13b685f9
PH
3537PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3538
395ff96d
PH
3539PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3540
5b68f6e4
PH
3541PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3542 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3543 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3544
1ab52c69
PH
3545PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3546 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3547 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3548
b07e6aa3
PH
3549PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3550 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3551 operating systems.
3552
254e032f
PH
3553PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3554 ${stat: expansion item.
3555
3af76a81
PH
3556PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3557 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3558
2548ba04
PH
3559PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3560 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3561 file for comments.
3562
b6c6011d
PH
3563PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3564
cf39cf57
PH
3565PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3566 setting.
3567
f1513293
PH
3568PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3569 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3570
727549a4
PH
3571TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3572
af46795e
PH
3573PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3574 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3575 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3576 the end of the subprocess.
3577
d7b47fd0
PH
3578PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3579 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3580 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3581 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3582 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3583
ee744174
JJ
3584JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3585
b582ab87
PH
3586TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3587
41a13e0a
PH
3588PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3589 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3590
f625cc5a
PH
3591PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3592
3593PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3594
21f7af35
PH
3595PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3596 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3597 HP-UX compiler.
3598
31480e42
PH
3599PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3600
2d280592
PH
3601PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3602 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3603 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3604
7cd1141b
PH
3605PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3606 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3607
3608PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3609 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3610
750af86e
PH
3611PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3612 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3613
3614 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3615 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3616
3617 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3618 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3619 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3620 contributed by a Radius user.
3621
3622PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3623 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3624
4304270b
TK
3625TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3626 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3627
750af86e
PH
3628PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3629 available.
3630
64ffc24f
PH
3631PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3632 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3633 received.
3634
5dd9625b
PH
3635PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3636 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3637 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3638 header lines when this was not necessary.
3639
5591031b
PH
3640PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3641
ba18e66a
PH
3642PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3643 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3644 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3645 exists".
3646
9cec981f
PH
3647PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3648 -bV or -d is used.
3649
aa2b5c79
PH
3650PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3651 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3652 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3653 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3654
48a53b7f
PH
3655PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3656
1c59d63b
PH
3657PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3658
671012da
TK
3659TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3660
1509d3a8
PH
3661PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3662
3663PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3664 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3665 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3666 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3667 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3668 settings.
3669
3670PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3671
2fe1a124
PH
3672PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3673 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3674 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3675 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3676 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3677 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3678 which is clearly wrong.
3679
8800895a
PH
3680PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3681
ccfdb010
PH
3682PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3683 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3684 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3685 subsequently added.
3686
1130bfb0
PH
3687PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3688 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3689
ebcb507f
PH
3690PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3691
c35e155c
PH
3692PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3693 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3694
95d1f782
PH
3695PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3696 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3697
fd6de02e
PH
3698PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3699 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3700
58de37c5
PH
3701PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3702 recipients, not senders.
3703
261cf466
TF
3704TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3705 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3706
3ee512ff
PH
3707PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3708
e08c430f
PH
3709PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3710
bef5a11f
PH
3711PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3712 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3713 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3714 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3715
7546de58
TF
3716TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3717
e5d5a95f
TF
3718TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3719 clock is set back in time.
3720
2e88a017
TF
3721TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3722 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3723
a5f65aa4
TF
3724TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3725 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3726
e7726cbf
PH
3727PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3728 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3729 (see PH/47 above).
3730
a7fdad5b
TF
3731TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3732 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3733 header rewrites.
3734
6af56900
PH
3735PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3736 type ("H").
3737
0925ede6
PH
3738PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3739
66afa403
TF
3740TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3741 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3742 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3743
0154e85a
TF
3744TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3745 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3746 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3747 helo verification defer as a failure.
3748
16f12c76
PH
3749PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3750 actual error message.
3751
bbe902f0 3752
e5a9dba6
PH
3753Exim version 4.52
3754-----------------
3755
3756TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3757
22c3b60b
PH
3758PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3759 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3760 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3761 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3762
06a9b4b5
PH
3763TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3764
c1ac6996
PH
3765PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3766 can still be requested.
3767
9c7a242c
PH
3768PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3769 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3770 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3771 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3772
87ba3f5f
PH
3773TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3774 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3775 circumstances, but probably never did.
3776
3777PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3778 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3779 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3780 in the header line.
3781
29aba418
TF
3782TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3783
fe0dab11
TF
3784TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3785 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3786
11d337a4
TK
3787TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3788
3789TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3790
415c8f3b
PH
3791PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3792 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3793 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3794 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3795 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3796 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3797
958541e9
PH
3798PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3799 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3800 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3801 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3802 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3803 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3804
c206415f
TK
3805TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3806 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3807
2a4be8f9
PH
3808PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3809 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3810
1cba11c5
SC
3811SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3812 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3813
4c04137d 3814SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3815
3816SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3817
3818SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3819
3820SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3821
3822SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3823
3824SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3825
1005d00e
TK
3826TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3827
3828TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3829 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3830 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3831
3832TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3833 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3834 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3835 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3836
9b4768fa
PH
3837PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3838 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3839 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3840
3841PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3842 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3843 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3844 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3845
0d7eb84a
PH
3846PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3847 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3848 to be made).
3849
3850PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3851 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3852 should work with maildirs and everything.
3853
40727bee
TK
3854TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3855 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3856
554d2369
TF
3857TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3858 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3859
1f922db1
PH
3860PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3861 function for BDB 4.3.
3862
ef213c3b
PH
3863PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3864
8ac170f3
PH
3865PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3866 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3867 involved.
3868
b1c749bb
PH
3869PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3870 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3871 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3872 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3873 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3874 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3875
4aac9b49
PH
3876PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3877 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3878 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3879 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3880 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3881 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3882 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3883 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3884
294520c8
TK
3885TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3886 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3887 details.
3888
5bd022fe
PH
3889PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3890 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3891
90e9ce59
PH
3892PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3893 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3894 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3895 test. It is now used for both.
3896
5ea81592
PH
3897PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3898 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3899 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3900 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3901 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3902 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3903
c6c2dc1d
PH
3904PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3905 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3906 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3907 string_vformat().
3908
fffffe4c
PH
3909PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3910 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3911 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3912
9a26b6b2
PH
3913PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3914 experimental DomainKeys support:
3915
3916 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3917 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3918 the control was given.
3919
3920 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3921
4aee0225
PH
3922PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3923
32d668a5
PH
3924PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3925
8187c3f3
PH
3926PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3927 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3928 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3929 db.h files).
3930
ff790e47 3931PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3932 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3933 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3934 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3935 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3936 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3937 course.
ff790e47 3938
5417f6d1
PH
3939PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3940 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3941 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3942 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3943 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3944 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3945
59cf8544
PH
3946PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3947 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3948 do -d+all out of habit.
3949
e7ad8a65
PH
3950PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3951 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3952 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3953
ade42478
PH
3954PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3955 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3956 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3957 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3958 record types that Exim uses.
3959
182ad5cf
PH
3960PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3961 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3962 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3963 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3964 non-existent file that was broken.
3965
b0d9fc80
TK
3966TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3967 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3968
3969TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3970 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3971 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3972
3973TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3974
47c7a64a
PH
3975PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3976 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3977 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3978 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3979 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3980 same time.
3981
a388bce4
SC
3982SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3983 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3984 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3985 at a slight CPU cost.
3986
3987SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3988 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3989
3990SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3991 by Marc Sherman.
3992
0793e4ed
SC
3993SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3994
c58b88df
PH
3995PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3996 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3997
e7ad8a65 3998
7982096b
PH
3999Exim version 4.51
4000-----------------
4001
1a46a8c5
PH
4002TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4003 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4004
2f079f46 4005TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4006
4007TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4008
4009PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4010 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4011
4012PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4013 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4014 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4015 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4016 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4017 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4018 file.
4019
4020PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4021 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4022 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4023 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4024 these two options.
4025
4026PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4027 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4028 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4029 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4030 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4031 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4032 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4033 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4034
4035PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4036 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4037
4038PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4039 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4040 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4041 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4042 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4043 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4044
4045PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4046 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4047 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4048 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4049
4050PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4051 Finch).
4052
4053PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4054 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4055
49c2d5ea
PH
4056PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4057 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4058 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4059 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4060 message.
49c2d5ea 4061
bf759a8b
PH
4062PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4063
83364d30
PH
4064PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4065 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4066
7999bbd7
PH
4067PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4068 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4069 to what was transported.)
4070
7dbf77c9
PH
4071TF/01 Added $received_time.
4072
74e0617f
PH
4073PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4074 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4075 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4076 spamd_address settings.
4077
2f079f46
PH
4078PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4079 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4080 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4081 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4082 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4083
8c841523
PH
4084PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4085
7766a4f0
PH
4086PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4087 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4088 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4089 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4090 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4091
8b417f2c
PH
4092PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4093 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4094
901f42cb
PH
4095PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4096 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4097 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4098 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4099 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4100 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4101 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4102 for failure.
4103
f9b9210e
PH
4104PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4105 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4106 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4107 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4108 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4109 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4110 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4111 "input=".
4112
54cdb463
PH
4113PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4114
cf00dad6
PH
4115PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4116 driver and ACL definitions.
4117
acb1b346
PH
4118PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4119 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4120
c5ddb310
PH
4121PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4122 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4123 understands it better than I do:
4124
4125 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4126 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4127
4128 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4129 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4130 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4131 => three warnings about OTP not working
4132 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4133
4134 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4135 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4136 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4137 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4138 for each call.)
4139 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4140 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4141
4142 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4143 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4144 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4145
31619da6
PH
4146PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4147 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4148 specified.
4149
bebaf0fc
PH
4150PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4151 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4152 "Linux".
4153
475fe28a
PH
4154PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4155 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4156 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4157
4158 warn !verify = sender
4159 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4160
4161 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4162 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4163
7e8bec7a
PH
4164PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4165
4166 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4167 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4168
4169 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4170 nomenclature these days.)
4171
e4a89c47
PH
4172PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4173 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4174
5ca2a9a1
PH
4175PH/30 In these circumstances:
4176 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4177 . First host does not offer TLS;
4178 . First host accepts first address;
4179 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4180 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4181 . Second host accepts second address.
4182 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4183 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4184 address.
7e8bec7a 4185
c688b954
PH
4186PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4187 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4188 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4189 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4190 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4191
fed77020
PH
4192PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4193 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4194
7fe1560f
PH
4195PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4196 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4197
ebb6e6d5
PH
4198PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4199 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4200 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4201
9c4e8f60
PH
4202PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4203 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4204 overlooked.
4205
4206PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4207
d7174846
PH
4208PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4209 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4210 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4211 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4212 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4213 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4214 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4215
4216 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4217 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4218 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4219 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4220 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4221
4222 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4223 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4224 routed further.
4225
cfe75fc3
PH
4226PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4227 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4228 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4229 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4230 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4231 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4232
be22d70e
PH
4233PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4234
0612b098
PH
4235PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4236 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4237 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4238 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4239 printable escape sequences.
4240
2e0c1448
PH
4241PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4242 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4243 body only.
4244
447d236c
PH
4245PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4246 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4247 are as follows:
4248
4249 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4250 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4251 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4252 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4253 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4254
4255 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4256 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4257 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4258
d20976dc
PH
4259PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4260
f656d135
PH
4261PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4262 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4263 play with."
4264
2e2a30b4
PH
4265PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4266 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4267 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4268 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4269 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4270 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4271 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4272 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4273 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4274 the log output.
4275
9176e9f0
PH
4276PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4277 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4278 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4279 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4280 "make".
4281
7982096b 4282
bbe902f0
PH
4283A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4284----------------------------------------
4285
4286Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4287changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4288needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4289in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4290that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4291release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4292from 4.43.
4293
4294I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
42954.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4296those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4297historical information.
4298
4299
f7b63901 4300Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4301-----------------
4302
5fe762f6
PH
4303 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4304
139059f6 4305 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4306 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4307
7086e875
PH
4308 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4309 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4310 place.
4311
35af9f61
PH
4312 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4313 filter fails to execute.
4314
b668c215
PH
4315 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4316 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4317 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4318 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4319 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4320
a494b1e1
PH
4321 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4322
4323 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4324 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4325 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4326 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4327
c5fcb476
PH
4328 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4329 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4330 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4331 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4332 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4333
69358f02
PH
4334 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4335
5be20824
PH
433610. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4337
eb2c0248
PH
433811. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4339 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4340 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4341 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4342
2a3eea10
PH
434312. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4344 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4345 sender verification.
4346
434713. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4348 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4349
23c7ff99
PH
435014. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4351
4deaf07d
PH
435215. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4353 connection timeout.
4354
926e1192
PH
435516. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4356 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4357
650edc6f
PH
435817. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4359 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4360
2c7db3f5
PH
436118. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4362 information about exactly what failed.
4363
3d235903
PH
436419. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4365
7c7ad977
PH
436620. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4367 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4368 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4369
981756db
PH
437021. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4371 It is now set to "smtps".
4372
d4eb88df
PH
437322. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4374 ignore_target_hosts.
4375
437623. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4377 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4378 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4379 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4380 "[x.x.x.x]".
4381
7d468ab8
PH
438224. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4383 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4384 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4385
438625. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4387 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4388 wake it up if nothing else does.
4389
62c0818f
PH
439026. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4391 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4392 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4393 end up negative.
4394
26034054
PH
439527. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4396 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4397
af66f652
PH
439828. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4399
90af77f4
PH
440029. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4401 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4402 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4403 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4404 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4405 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4406 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4407 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4408
d8ef3577
PH
440930. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4410 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4411 than one IP address.
4412
5cb8cbc6
PH
441331. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4414 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4415 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4416 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4417
14702f5b
PH
441832. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4419 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4420 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4421 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4422 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4423 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4424
063b1e99
PH
442533. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4426 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4427 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4428 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4429
652e1b65
PH
443034. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4431 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4432 respected.
4433
6f0c9a4f
PH
443435. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4435 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4436 $sender_host_address.
4437
33397d19
PH
443836. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4439 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4440 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4441 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4442 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4443 very small.
4444
7bb56e1f
PH
444537. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4446
4447 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4448 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4449
ea3bc19b
PH
4450 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4451 just the host names, not the priorities.
4452
4453 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4454 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4455 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4456
ea3bc19b 4457 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4458 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4459
0bcb2a0e
PH
446038. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4461 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4462 domain.
4463
2ac0e484
PH
446439. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4465
4e1fde53
PH
446640. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4467 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4468
de365ded
PH
446941. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4470 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4471 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4472
f05da2e8
PH
447342. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4474
d6453af2
PH
447543. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4476
f7b63901
PH
447744. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4478
447945. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4480 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4481 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4482 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4483 because the tests only now provoked it.
4484
a444213a
PH
448546. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4486 (this can affect the format of dates).
4487
0ec020ea
PH
448847. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4489 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4490 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4491 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4492
b1206957
PH
449348. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4494
449549. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4496 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4497 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4498 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4499
26dd5a95
PH
450050. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4501 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4502 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4503
343b2385
PH
450451. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4505 autoreply.
4506
1c5466b9
PH
450752. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4508 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4509 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4510 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4511 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4512 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4513 is going on).
4514
55ee9ee3
PH
451553. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4516 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4517 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4518 the line.
4519
d38f8232
PH
452054. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4521 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4522 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4523
4524 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4525 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4526 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4527 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4528 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4529 so I produce this patch..."
4530
3295e65b
PH
4531 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4532 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4533 is not defined.
4534
7102e136
PH
453555. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4536 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4537 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4538 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4539 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4540
3ca0ba97
PH
454156. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4542
c2bcbe20
PH
454357. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4544 long debug lines gets shown.
4545
18ce445d
PH
454658. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4547 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4548
1f5b4c3d
PH
454959. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4550
4551 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4552 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4553 of $primary_hostname.
4554
b975ba52
PH
455560. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4556 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4557 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4558 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4559 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4560 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4561 by change 4.50/55 above.
4562
4563 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4564 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4565 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4566 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4567 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4568 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4569 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4570
457161. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4572 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4573 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4574 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4575
17ffcae7
PH
457662. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4577 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4578
d95f9fdb
PH
457963. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4580 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4581 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4582 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4583 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4584
86b8287f
PH
458564. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4586 This has been fixed.
4587
60dc5e56
PH
458865. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4589 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4590 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4591 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4592 the caching.)
4593
533244af
PH
459466. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4595
a5a28604
PH
459667. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4597 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4598 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4599 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4600
7e634d24
PH
460168. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4602 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4603
3e11c26b
PH
460469. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4605 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4606 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4607
6729cf78
PH
460870. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4609 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4610 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4611 message there.
4612
00f00ca5
PH
461371. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4614 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4615 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4616
c9bdd01c
PH
461772. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4618 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4619 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4620 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4621
d43194df
PH
462273. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4623 during host lookups.
4624
fe5b5d0b
PH
462574. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4626 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4627
4628 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4629
76a2d7ba
PH
463075. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4631 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4632 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4633 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4634 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4635 background.
4636
463776. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4638 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4639
04f7d5b9
PH
464077. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4641 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4642 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4643
bc60667e
PH
464478. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4645
bb6e88ff
PH
464679. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4647 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4648 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4649 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4650 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4651 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4652 process earlier.
4653
1e70f85b
PH
465480. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4655 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4656 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4657 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4658 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4659
466081. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4661 tables).
4662
4e01f9d6
PH
466382. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4664
1ee1cef2
PH
466583. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4666 "vacation" handling.
4667
6e2b4ccc
PH
466884. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4669 OS variants using glibc.
4670
8e669ac1
PH
467185. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4672
495ae4b0 4673
bbe902f0
PH
4674----------------------------------------------------
4675See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4676----------------------------------------------------
4677
4678
4679Exim version 4.44
4680-----------------
4681
4682 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4683 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4684 transport
4685
4686 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4687 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4688 place.
4689
4690 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4691 filter fails to execute.
4692
4693 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4694 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4695 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4696 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4697 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4698
4699 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4700 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4701 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4702 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4703
4704 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4705 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4706 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4707 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4708 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4709
4710 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4711
4712 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4713 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4714 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4715 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4716
4717 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4718 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4719 sender verification.
4720
472110. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4722 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4723
472411. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4725 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4726
472712. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4728 ignore_target_hosts.
4729
473013. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4731 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4732 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4733 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4734 "[x.x.x.x]".
4735
473614. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4737 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4738 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4739
474015. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4741 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4742 wake it up if nothing else does.
4743
474416. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4745 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4746 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4747 end up negative.
4748
474917. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4750 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4751
ea3a6f44 475218. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4753
475419. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4755 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4756 empty pattern.
4757
475820. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4759 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4760 one IP address.
4761
ea3a6f44
NM
476221. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4763 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4764 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4765 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4766 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4767 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4768
ea3a6f44
NM
476922. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4770 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4771 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4772
477323. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4774 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4775 $sender_host_address.
4776
477724. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4778
ea3a6f44
NM
477925. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4780 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4781 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4782
478326. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4784 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4785
ea3a6f44
NM
478627. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4787 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4788
ea3a6f44
NM
478928. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4790 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4791 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4792 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4793
479429. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4795 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4796 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4797
ea3a6f44
NM
479830. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4799 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4800 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4801 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4802
ea3a6f44
NM
480331. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4804 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4805 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4806
ea3a6f44
NM
480731. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4808 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4809
ea3a6f44
NM
481032. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4811 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4812 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4813 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4814 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4815 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4816 is going on).
bbe902f0 4817
ea3a6f44
NM
481833. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4819 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4820 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4821 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4822 CAN-2005-0021
4823
ea3a6f44
NM
482434. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4825 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4826 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4827 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4828 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4829 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4830 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4831
4832 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4833 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4834 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4835 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4836 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4837 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4838 CAN-2005-0021
4839
ea3a6f44
NM
484035. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4841 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4842 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4843 CAN-2005-0022
4844
ea3a6f44
NM
484536. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4846 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4847 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4848 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4849 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4850
ea3a6f44
NM
485137. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4852 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4853 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4854 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4855 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4856
ea3a6f44
NM
485738. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4858 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4859 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4860 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4861 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4862
4863
495ae4b0
PH
4864Exim version 4.43
4865-----------------
4866
4867 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4868 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4869 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4870 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4871 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4872 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4873 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4874
4875 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4876 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4877 the delivery.
4878
4879 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4880
4881 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4882
4883 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4884 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4885 to local_scan().
4886
4887 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4888 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4889 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4890 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4891 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4892
4893 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4894 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4895
4896 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4897
4898 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4899
490010. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4901 header_sender only.
4902
490311. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4904 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4905
490612. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4907 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4908 affecting debugging statements).
4909
491013. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4911
491214. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4913 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4914 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4915 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4916 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4917 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4918 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4919 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4920 after the received time, and all would be well.
4921
492215. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4923 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4924 condition in an expansion string.
4925
492616. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4927
492817. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4929 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4930 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4931 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4932 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4933 job under whatever limits there are.
4934
493518. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4936
493719. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4938 space).
4939
494020. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4941 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4942 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4943 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4944 return path is set.
4945
494621. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4947 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4948 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4949 binary data in such strings.
4950
495122. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4952
495323. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4954 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4955 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4956 failure, which is pointless.
4957
495824. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4959
496025. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4961
496226. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4963 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4964 Sender: header lines.
4965
496627. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4967 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4968 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4969
497028. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4971 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4972 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4973 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4974 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4975 happens.
4976
497729. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4978 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4979 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4980 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4981 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4982
498330. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4984 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4985 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4986 1024.
4987
498831. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4989 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4990
499132. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4992 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4993
499433. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4995
499632. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4997
499833. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4999
500034. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5001 syntax error.
5002
500335. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5004
500536. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5006
500737. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5008 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5009 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5010 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5011
501238. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5013 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5014
5015
5016Exim version 4.42
5017-----------------
5018
5019 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5020 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5021 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5022 it was not quoted.
5023 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5024 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5025 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5026 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5027 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5028 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5029
5030 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5031 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5032 verification failure".
5033
5034 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5035 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5036 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5037 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5038
5039 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5040 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5041 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5042 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5043 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5044 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5045 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5046 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5047 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5048 treated as a timeout.
5049
5050 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5051 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5052 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5053 not set for Exim filters).
5054
5055 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5056 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5057 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5058
5059 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5060
5061 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5062 try to make them clearer.
5063
5064 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5065 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5066
5067 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5068
5069 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5070
507110. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5072 only the Cygwin environment.
5073
507411. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5075 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5076 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5077 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5078 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5079
508012. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5081 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5082 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5083 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5084 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5085 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5086 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5087
508813. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5089 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5090
509114. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5092
5093 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5094 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5095 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5096
5097 To: susanne@some.where
5098
5099 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5100 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5101 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5102 of addresses in From: header lines).
5103
5104 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5105 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5106 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5107
5108 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5109 treated as non-personal.
5110
5111 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5112 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5113
511415. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5115
511616. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5117
511817. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5119 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5120 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5121
512218. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5123 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5124
512519. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5126 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5127 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5128 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5129 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5130 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5131
513220. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5133 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5134 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5135 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5136 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5137 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5138 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5139 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5140
5141 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5142
514321. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5144 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5145
514622. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5147 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5148 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5149
515023. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5151 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5152
515324. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5154 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5155 rather than long int.
5156
515725. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5158
515926. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5160
5161
5162Exim version 4.41
5163-----------------
5164
5165 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5166 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5167 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5168 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5169 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5170 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5171
5172
5173Exim version 4.40
5174-----------------
5175
5176 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5177 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5178
5179 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5180 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5181 socklen_t is defined.
5182
5183 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5184 always exist.
5185
5186 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5187 configured.
5188
5189 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5190 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5191 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5192 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5193 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5194
5195 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5196 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5197 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5198 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5199
5200 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5201 of flapping under certain conditions.
5202
5203 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5204 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5205 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5206
5207 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5208
520910. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5210
521111. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5212 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5213 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5214 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5215
521612. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5217 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5218 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5219 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5220 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5221 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5222 preserved with the message after it was received.
5223
522413. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5225 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5226 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5227 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5228 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5229 test suite worked just fine.
5230
523114. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5232 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5233 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5234
523515. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5236 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5237 string.
5238
523916. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5240 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5241 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5242 does not fully solve it.
5243
524417. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5245 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5246 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5247 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5248 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5249
525018. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5251 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5252 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5253
525419. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5255 string, for example:
5256
5257 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5258
5259 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5260 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5261 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5262 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5263 the routers could not see them.
5264
526520. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5266 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5267
526821. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5269 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5270 output).
5271
527222. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5273 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5274 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5275 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5276 that needed quoting.
5277
527823. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5279 was not being matched caselessly.
5280
528124. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5282 backslashes.
5283
528425. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5285 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5286 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5287 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5288 when use_sender is false.
5289
529026. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5291
529227. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5293
529428. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5295
529629. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5297 the configuration file.
5298
529930. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5300 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5301
530231. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5303
530432. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5305 bytes in the message body.
5306
530733. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5308 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5309 delivery.
5310
531134. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5312
531335. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5314
531536. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5316 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5317 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5318 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5319 another IP address.
5320
5321
5322Exim version 4.34
5323-----------------
5324
5325 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5326 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5327
5328 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5329 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5330 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5331 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5332 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5333
5334 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5335 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5336
5337 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5338 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5339 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5340
5341 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5342 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5343 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5344
5345 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5346 for routers.
5347
5348 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5349 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5350 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5351 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5352 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5353 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5354 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5355
5356
5357Exim version 4.33
5358-----------------
5359
5360 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5361 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5362 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5363 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5364 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5365 default (and expected) setting.
5366
5367 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5368 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5369 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5370 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5371
5372 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5373 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5374
5375 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5376 in domain lists.
5377
5378 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5379 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5380 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5381 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5382 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5383 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5384
5385 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5386 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5387 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5388
5389 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5390 part (NOT match_host).
5391
5392 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5393
5394 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5395 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5396 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5397 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5398 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5399 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5400 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5401 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5402 the same named file.
5403
540410. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5405 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5406 when Exim is built.
5407
540811. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5409 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5410 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5411 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5412 a host name.
5413
541412. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5415 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5416 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5417
541813. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5419
542014. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5421
542215. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5423
542416. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5425 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5426
542717. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5428 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5429 before starting the TLS session.
5430
543118. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5432
543319. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5434 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5435
543620. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5437 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5438 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5439 colon in the middle).
5440
5441
5442Exim version 4.32
5443-----------------
5444
5445 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5446 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5447 multiple configurations are in use.
5448
5449 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5450 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5451 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5452 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5453 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5454 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5455
5456 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5457 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5458
5459 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5460 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5461 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5462
5463 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5464 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5465 occurs.
5466
5467 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5468 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5469
5470 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5471
5472 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5473 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5474
5475 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5476
5477 -prval:sval
5478
5479 is equivalent to
5480
5481 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5482
5483 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5484 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5485 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5486 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5487 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5488
548910. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5490 Exim's behaviour:
5491
5492 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5493 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5494 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5495 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5496 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5497 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5498
5499 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5500 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5501 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5502 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5503 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5504 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5505 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5506 string.
5507
5508 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5509 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5510 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5511 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5512 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5513
551411. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5515
551612. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5517 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5518 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5519
552013. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5521
552214. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5523 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5524 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5525 information.
5526
552715. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5528 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5529
553016. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5531 Three changes have been made:
5532
5533 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5534 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5535 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5536 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5537 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5538
5539 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5540 been restored.
5541
5542 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5543 the modified behaviour.
5544
5545
5546Exim version 4.31
5547-----------------
5548
5549 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5550 Larry Rosenman.
5551
5552 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5553 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5554
5555 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5556 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5557 try to track down a specific problem.
5558
5559 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5560 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5561 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5562
5563 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5564 warning.
5565
5566 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5567 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5568 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5569 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5570 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5571 some earlier ones do not.
5572
5573 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5574
5575 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5576 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5577 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5578 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5579 address literals are enabled, of course).
5580
5581 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5582
558310. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5584 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5585 by a command such as
5586
5587 exim -f "" ...
5588
5589 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5590
559111. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5592
559312. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5594 remained set. It is now erased.
5595
559613. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5597 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5598
559914. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5600 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5601 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5602 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5603 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5604 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5605 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5606 appropriate error code.
5607
560815. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5609 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5610 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5611 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5612 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5613 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5614
561516. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5616 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5617 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5618
561917. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5620 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5621 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5622 terminate the header.
5623
562418. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5625 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5626 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5627
562819. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5629 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5630 (4.30/29). In particular:
5631
5632 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5633 imposed.
5634
5635 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5636 to write a maildirsize file.
5637
5638 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5639 the transport, the new value overrides.
5640
5641 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5642 count.
5643
564420. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5645 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5646 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5647 space or a tab.
5648
564921. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5650 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5651 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5652 the fallback hosts.
5653
565422. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5655 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5656 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5657
565823. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5659 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5660 using a union.
5661
566224. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5663 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5664 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5665
566625. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5667
566826. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5669
567027. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5671
567228. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5673 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5674 become corrupted.
5675
567629. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5677 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5678 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5679 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5680 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5681 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5682 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5683 too great.
5684
568530. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5686 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5687 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5688 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5689 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5690 incorrectly.
5691
569231. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5693 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5694 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5695 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5696 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5697 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5698 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5699 cached value only when the same options are set.
5700
570132. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5702
570333. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5704 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5705 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5706 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5707 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5708
570934: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5710 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5711 it is clearly obsolete.
5712
571335. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5714 transport.
5715
571636. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5717 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5718 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5719 times.
5720
572137. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5722 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5723 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5724 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5725 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5726
572738. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5728 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5729 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5730 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5731
573239. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5733
5734 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5735
5736 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5737 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5738 2^31.
5739
574040. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5741 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5742 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5743 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5744 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5745 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5746 $localpart_data.
5747
574841. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5749 with the -f command-line option.
5750
575142. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5752 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5753 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5754 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5755 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5756 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5757
575843. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5759 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5760 line.
5761
576244. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5763 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5764 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5765 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5766 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5767 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5768 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5769 buffer is too small.
5770
577145. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5772 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5773
577446. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5775 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5776 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5777 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5778 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5779 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5780 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5781 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5782 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5783
578447. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5785 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5786 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5787
578848. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5789 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5790 ACL").
5791
579249. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5793 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5794 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5795 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5796 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5797
579850. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5799 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5800 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5801 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5802 is set.
5803
580451. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5805
580652. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5807
580853. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5809 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5810
581154. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5812 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5813 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5814
581555. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5816 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5817 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5818 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5819 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5820
582156. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5822 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5823 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5824 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5825 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5826 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5827 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5828
582957. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5830 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5831 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5832 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5833 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5834 the test of how many are available.
5835
583658. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5837 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5838 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5839 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
495ae4b0
PH
5840 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5841 new message is started.
5842
584359. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5844 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5845
584660. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5847 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5848
584961. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5850 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5851 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5852 is no long logged.
5853
585462. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5855 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5856 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5857 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5858 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5859 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5860 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5861
586263. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5863 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5864 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5865 interpreted as octal.
5866
586764. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5868 setting.
5869
587065. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5871 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5872 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5873 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5874 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5875 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5876
587766. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5878 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5879 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5880 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5881
5882 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5883 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5884 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5885 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5886
5887 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5888 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5889 is a bug fix.
5890
5891 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5892 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5893
589467. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5895
589668. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5897 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5898 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5899 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5900
590169. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5902 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5903 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5904 supplied", which is not helpful.
5905
590670. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5907 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5908 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5909
591071. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5911 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5912 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5913 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5914 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5915 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5916 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5917 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5918
591972. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5920 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5921 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5922 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5923 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5924
592573. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5926 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5927 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5928 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5929 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5930 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5931
593274. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5933 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5934 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5935
593675. Added write_rejectlog option.
5937
593876. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5939 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5940 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5941 variables.
5942
594377. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5944
594578. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5946 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5947 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5948 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5949 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5950 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5951 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5952 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5953
595479. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5955 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5956 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5957 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5958 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5959
596080. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5961 Haardt.
5962
596381. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5964 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5965 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5966 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5967 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5968 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5969 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5970 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5971 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5972
5973
5974Exim version 4.30
5975-----------------
5976
5977 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5978 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5979 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5980
5981 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5982 fixed.
5983
5984 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5985 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5986 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5987
5988 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5989 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5990 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5991 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5992 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 5993 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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5994
5995 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5996 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5997 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5998 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5999 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6000 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6001 the Exim test suite.
6002
6003 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6004 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6005 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6006 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6007
6008 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6009 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6010 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6011 specify it in this variable.
6012
6013 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6014 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6015 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6016 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6017
6018 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6019 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6020 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6021 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6022
6023 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6024 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6025 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6026 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6027 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6028
6029 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6030
603110. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6032 they are logged.
6033
603411. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6035 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6036 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6037 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6038 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6039
604012. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6041 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6042
604313. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6044 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6045 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6046 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6047 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6048
604914. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6050 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6051
605215. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6053 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6054 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6055
605616. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6057 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6058
605917. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6060 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6061
606218. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6063 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6064 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6065
606619. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6067 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6068
606920. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6070 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6071 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6072 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6073
607421. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6075
607622. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6077 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6078 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6079 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6080
608123. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6082
608324. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6084 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6085
608625. Added .include_if_exists.
6087
608826. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6089 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6090 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6091 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6092 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6093 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6094
609527. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6096
609728. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6098 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6099 this.
6100
610129. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6102
610330. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6104 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6105
6106 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6107 550 Sender verify failed
6108
6109 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6110 the final line of the response.
6111
611231. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6113 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6114 all other user lookups.
6115
611632. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6117 delivery time.
6118
611933. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6120 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6121 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6122 result into an int without checking.
6123
612434. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6125 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6126 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6127
612835. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6129 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6130 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6131 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6132
613336. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6134 correctly.
6135
613637. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6137 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6138
613938. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6140 to the empty sender.
6141
614239. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6143 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6144 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6145 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6146 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6147 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6148 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6149 panic log.
6150
615140. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6152 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6153 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6154 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6155 used.
6156
615741. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6158 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6159
616042. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6161 timestamps.
6162
616343. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6164 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6165
616644. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6167
616845. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6169 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6170 logs.
6171
617246. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6173 as soon as it is encountered.
6174
617547. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6176
617748. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6178 rewritten to "<>".
6179
618049. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6181 recognizes a tab character.
6182
618350. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6184 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6185 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6186 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6187
618851. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6189
619052. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6191 crash.
6192
619353. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6194
619554. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6196
619755. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6198 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6199 2822.
6200
620156. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6202 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6203 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6204 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6205 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6206
620757. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6208 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6209
621058. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6211 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6212 list (.included file names were always shown).
6213
621459. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6215 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6216 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6217 root at that time.
6218
621960. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6220 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6221
622261. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6223
622462. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6225
622663. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6227
622864. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6229 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6230 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6231 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6232 failures to open the logs.
6233
623465. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6235 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6236 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6237 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6238 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6239 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6240 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6241
6242
6243Exim version 4.24
6244-----------------
6245
6246 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6247 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6248 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6249 change 4.23/1.
6250
6251 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6252 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6253 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6254
6255 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6256 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6257 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6258
6259 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6260 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6261 causing some misleading effects.
6262
6263 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6264 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6265 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6266
6267 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6268 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6269 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6270 queue-runner function directly.
6271
6272
6273Exim version 4.23
6274-----------------
6275
6276 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6277 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6278
6279 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6280 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6281 was always written to the default place.
6282
6283 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6284 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6285 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6286
6287 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6288
6289 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6290
6291 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6292 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6293 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6294
6295 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6296 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6297 must start.
6298
6299 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6300 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6301 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6302
6303 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6304 command line option is disabled.
6305
6306 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6307 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6308
6309 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6310
6311 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6312
6313 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6314 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6315
631610. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6317
631811. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6319 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6320 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6321 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6322 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6323 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6324
632512. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6326 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6327 timeout.
6328
632913. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6330 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6331
633214. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6333 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6334
633515. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6336 received was valid base64.
6337
633816. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6339 name of the variable that was being set.
6340
634117. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6342
634318. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6344 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6345 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6346 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6347 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6348 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6349
635019. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6351
635220. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6353 nor realm was specified.
6354
635521. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6356 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6357 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6358 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6359
636022. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6361 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6362 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6363
636423. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6365 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6366 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6367
636824. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6369 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6370 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6371 some systems use these upper case variants.
6372
637325. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6374 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6375 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6376 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6377
637826. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6379
638027. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6381 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6382
638328. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6384 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6385 expansion variable.
6386
638729. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6388
638930. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6390 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6391 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6392 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6393
639431. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6395 using it.
6396
639732. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6398 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6399 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6400
640133. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6402 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6403
640434. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6405 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6406 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6407 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6408
640935. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6410 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6411 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6412
641336. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6414
641537. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6416 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6417 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6418 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6419 aborted.
6420
642138. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6422 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6423 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6424
642539. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6426
642740. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6428 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6429
643041. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6431 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6432
643342. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6434 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6435 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6436 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6437 when emails are that large.
6438
6439
6440
6441Exim version 4.22
6442-----------------
6443
6444 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6445 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6446
6447 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6448 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6449 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6450
6451 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6452 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6453 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6454
6455 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6456 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6457 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6458 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6459 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6460
6461 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6462 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6463 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6464 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6465 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6466 ever.
6467
6468 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6469 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6470 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6471 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6472 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6473 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6474 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6475 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6476 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6477 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6478 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6479 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6480 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6481 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6482
6483 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6484 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6485 parameterised it.
6486
6487 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6488 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6489 error should be diagnosed.
6490
6491 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6492 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6493 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6494 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6495 appeared instead of "NULL".
6496
649710. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6498 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6499 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6500 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6501 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6502 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6503 proceeds).
6504
6505 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6506 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6507 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6508
6509
6510Exim version 4.21
6511-----------------
6512
6513 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6514 or receiver verification errors.
6515
6516 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6517 name.
6518
6519 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6520 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6521 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6522 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6523
6524 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6525 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6526 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6527 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6528 shouldn't happen again.
6529
6530 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6531 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6532 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6533
6534 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6535 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6536
6537 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6538
6539 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6540 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6541
6542 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6543 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6544 RFC.
6545
654610. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6547 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6548 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6549
655011. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6551 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6552 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6553 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6554
655512. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6556 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6557 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6558 to define what should happen).
6559
656013. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6561 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6562 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6563
656414. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6565
656615. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6567
656816. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6569 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6570
4c04137d 657117. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6572 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6573 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6574 structure in all cases.
6575
6576 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6577 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6578 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6579 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6580
658118. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6582 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6583 domain name.
6584
658519. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6586 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6587
658820. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6589 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6590
659121. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6592 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6593 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6594
659522. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6596 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6597 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6598
659923. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6600 the book and for uniformity.
6601
660224. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6603
660425. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6605 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6606 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6607 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6608 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6609 non-existent command as the problem.
6610
661126. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6612 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6613 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6614
661527. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6616
661728. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6618 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6619 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6620
662129. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6622 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6623 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6624 timestamps using strftime().
6625
662630. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6627 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6628
662932. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6630 transport-time rewrites.
6631
663233. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6633 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6634 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6635 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6636
663734. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6638 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6639
664035. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6641 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6642 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6643 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6644 comma and a space.
6645
664636. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6647 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6648 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6649 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6650 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6651 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6652 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6653
665437. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6655 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6656 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6657 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6658 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6659
666038. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6661 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6662 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6663 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6664 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6665 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6666 remaining text gets split now.
6667
666839. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6669 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6670 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6671 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6672
667340. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6674 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6675 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6676 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6677 $return_path.
6678
667941. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6680 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6681 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6682 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6683 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6684 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6685 passed through if needed.
6686
668742. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6688 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6689 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6690 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6691 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6692 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6693
669443. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6695 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6696 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6697 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6698 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6699
670044. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6701 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6702 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6703 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6704 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6705
670645. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6707 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6708 noticed.
6709
671046. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6711 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6712 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6713 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6714 mayhem of various kinds.
6715
671647. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6717 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6718 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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6719 the right test for positive values.
6720
672148. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6722 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6723 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6724 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6725 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6726 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6727 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6728 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6729 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6730 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6731 envelope.
6732
673349. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6734 module.
6735
673650. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6737 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6738 forbidding it.
6739
674051. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6741 the existing equality matching.
6742
674352. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6744 dealing with inode numbers.
6745
674653. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6747 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6748 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6749
675054. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6751 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6752 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6753 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6754 local_scan().
6755
675655. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6757 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6758 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6759 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6760 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6761 relay addresses has also been removed.
6762
676356. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6764
676557. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6766 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6767 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6768
676958. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6770 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6771 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6772 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6773 processing applies to CR:
6774
6775 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6776 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6777
6778 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6779 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6780 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6781 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6782
678359. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6784 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6785 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6786
678760. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6788 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6789 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6790 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6791 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6792 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6793 arisen.
6794
679561. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6796 program routers.
6797
679862. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6799 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6800 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6801 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6802 adds:
6803
6804 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6805
6806 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6807
6808 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6809
681063. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6811 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6812 not considered personal.
6813
681464. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6815
681665. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6817
681866. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6819
682067. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6821 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6822 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6823 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6824 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6825 header lines, and spool format errors.
6826
682768. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6828 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6829 for more flexibility.
6830
683169. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6832 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6833 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6834
683570. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6836 Sabourenkov.
6837
683871. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6839 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6840 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6841 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6842 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6843 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6844 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6845 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6846 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6847
684872. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6849 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6850 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6851 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6852 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6853 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6854 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6855
685673. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6857 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6858 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6859
686074. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6861 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6862 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6863 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6864 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6865 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6866 instead of killing the process with assert().
6867
686875. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6869 than Unicode encoding.
6870
687176. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6872 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6873 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6874 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6875
687677. Added process_log_path.
6877
687878. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6879 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6880
688179. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6882 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6883
688480. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6885 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6886 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6887
688881. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6889 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6890 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6891 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6892 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6893 were applied:
6894
6895 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6896 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6897 as invalid.
6898
689982. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6900 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6901 they will be used during message reception.
6902
6903
6904Exim version 4.20
6905-----------------
6906
6907The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6908
6909****