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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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9PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
10 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
11 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
12
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13PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
14 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
15
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16JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
17
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18PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
19
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20PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
21
ec5a0394 22PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 23
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24PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
25
453a6645 26PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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27 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
28 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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29 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
30
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31PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
32 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
33 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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34 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
35 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 36
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37PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
38
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39PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
40
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41PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
42
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43PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
44
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45PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
46
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47PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
48
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49PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
50
6a8de854 51PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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52 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
53 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 54
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55JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
56
57JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
58 "exim" to be used
55c75993 59
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60PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
61 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
62
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63PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
64 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
65 Notification from John Horne.
66
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67PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
68 compatible.
69
70PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
71 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
72 it normally works.
73
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74DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
75 access.
76
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78Exim version 4.72
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80
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81JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
82 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
83 typos
465e92cf 84
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85JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
86 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
87 (Finput)
edae0343 88
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89NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
90 Patch from Alain Williams
91
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92NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
93
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94NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
95 Patch from Andreas Metzler
96
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97NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
98 Patch from Kirill Miazine
99
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100NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
101
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102JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
103
a466095c 104NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 105 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 106
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107TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
108
109TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
110
111MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
112 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
113 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
114
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115NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
116 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 117
b26eacf1 118NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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119 Patch by Simon Arlott
120
179c5980 121PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 122 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 123
9bd3e22c 124
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125Exim version 4.71
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127
7d9f747b 128TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 129
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130NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
131
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132NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
133
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134NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
135
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136NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
137
7c6d71af 138
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139Exim version 4.70
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141
cdd3bb85 142TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 143 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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144
145TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
146 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 147 Hirsch).
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148
149TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
150 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 151 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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152
153TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
154 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
155
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156NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
157 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
158 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
159 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
160
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161NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
162 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 163 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 164
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165TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
166
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167TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
168
dae9d94e 169NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 170 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 171
7d9f747b 172NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 173
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174TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
175 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
176 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
177 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
178
65a7d8c3 179NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 180 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 181
23510047 182TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 183
7d9f747b 184NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 185
7d8eec3a 186NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 187 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 188
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189TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
190 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 191
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192TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
193 that they are available at delivery time.
194
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195TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
196
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197TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
198 incoming_port log selectors.
199
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200TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
201 setting expands to an empty string.
202
ce552449 203NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 204 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 205
e765a0f1 206NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 207 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 208
4f054c63 209NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 210 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 211
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212NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
213 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 214
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215NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
216 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 217
b52bc06e 218NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 219 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 220
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221NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
222
4c69d561 223NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 224 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 225
d5c39246 226NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 227 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 228
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229TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
230
8f3414a1 231NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 232 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 233
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234NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
235
236NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 237
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238NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
239 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 240
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241NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
242 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 243
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244NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
245 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 246
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247NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
248 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 249
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250NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
251 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 252
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253NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
254 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 255
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256NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
257 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 258
7d9f747b 259NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 260 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 261
7d9f747b 262NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 263
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264NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
265 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 266
7d9f747b 267NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 268
7d9f747b 269NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 270
7d9f747b 271NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 272
7d9f747b 273NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 274
17792b53 275NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 276 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 277
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278NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
279 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 280
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281NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
282 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 283
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284NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
285 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 286
7d9f747b 287NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 288
7d9f747b 289NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 290
7d9f747b 291NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 292
7d9f747b 293NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
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299TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
300 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
301 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
302
303 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
304 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
305 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
306 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
307 build errors in sieve.c.
308
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309NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
310 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
311 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
312
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313SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
314
7d9f747b 315NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 316
7d9f747b 317NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 318
7d9f747b 319NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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324
325PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
326
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327PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
328 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
329 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
330 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
331 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
332 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
333 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
334 for iplsearch lookups.
335
336 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
337 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
338 previously such lookups could never work.
339
340 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
341 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
342 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
343
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344TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
345 version.
346
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347MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
348 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
349 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
350 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
351 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
352 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
353
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354TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
355 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
356
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357MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
358 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
359 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
360 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
361 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
362 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
363
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364PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
365 local_scan API.
366
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367PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
368
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369PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
370 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
371 encrypted.
372
373PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
374 by clients under certain conditions.
375
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376PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
377 "_responses" off the end of the name.
378
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379PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
380
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381PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
382 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
383
384PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
385
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386PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
387
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388PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
389
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390PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
391 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
392
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393PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
394
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395PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
396 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
397
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398PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
399
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400PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
401
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402PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
403 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
404 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
405 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 406
ddea74fa 407PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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408 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
409 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
410
ddea74fa 411PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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412 and InterBase are left for another time.)
413
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414PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
415
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416PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
417
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418PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
419
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420PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
421 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
422 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
423
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427
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428MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
429 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
430 Jan Srzednicki.
431
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432PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
433 issue a MAIL command.
434
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435PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
436
437 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
438
439 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
440 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
441 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
442 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
443 item. This has been fixed.
444
445PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
446 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
447
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448PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
449 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
450
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451PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
452 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
453 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
454
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455SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
456
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457PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
458 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
459 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
460 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
461 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
462
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463MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
464 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
465 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
466
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467PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
468 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
469 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
470 the server_setid option was incorrect.
471
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472PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
473
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474PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
475
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476PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
477 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
478 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
479 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
480 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
481
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482PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
483
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484PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
485 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
486 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
487 values).
488
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489PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
490
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491PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
492
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493PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
494
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495PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
496
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497PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
498
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499PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
500 no_callout_flush is set.
501
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502PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
503 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
504 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
505 fixed.
506
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507PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
508
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509PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
510 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
511 other ACL rejections are.
512
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513PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
514 with slight modification.
515
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516PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
517 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
518
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519PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
520 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
521 connection.
522
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523PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
524 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
525
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526SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
527
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528PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
529 expansion side effects.
530
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531PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
532 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
533 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
534 be the same.
535
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536MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
537 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
538 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
539
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540PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
541 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
542 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
543 were accidentally chopped off.
544
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545PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
546 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
547 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
548 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
549 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
550 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
551 pipelining has not been advertised.
552
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553PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
554
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555PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
556 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
557 This has been fixed.
558
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559PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
560 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
561 reported on Solaris.
562
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563PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
564 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
565 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
566 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
567 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
568 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
569 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
570
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571PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
572 cpus.
573
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574PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
575
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576PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
577
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578PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
579 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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580 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
581 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
582 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
583 criteria to be more general.
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585PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
586 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
587 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
588 host_all_ignored option.
589
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590PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
591 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
592 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
593 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
594 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
595 is what is supposed to happen).
596
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597PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
598 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
599 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
600 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
601 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
602 uses the Exim user.
603
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604PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
605 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
606 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
607 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
608 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
609 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
610 users.
611
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612PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
613
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614SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
615 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
616 (Jez Hancock).
617 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
618 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
619
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620SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
621
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622PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
623
58eb016e 624PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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625 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
626 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
627 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
628 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
629 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
630 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
631 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 632 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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633 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
634 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 635
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636PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
637 advertised in response to EHLO.
638
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640Exim version 4.66
641-----------------
642
643PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
644 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
645
646 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
647 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
648
649 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
650 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
651 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
652
653 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
654 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
655 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
656 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
657 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
658
659
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660Exim version 4.65
661-----------------
662
663TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
664 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
665 versions. (#438)
666
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667MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
668 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
669 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
670
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671PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
672 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
673 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
674 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
675 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
676 rather than extend the field.
677
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679Exim version 4.64
680-----------------
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682TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
683 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
684 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
685 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
686 these files.
687
688TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
689 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
690 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
691
692TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
693 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
694 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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695
696TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
697 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
698 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
699 in the field name.
700
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701PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
702 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
703 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
704 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
705 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
706 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
707 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
708 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
709 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
710 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
711 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
712
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713PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
714 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
715
716PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
717 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
718 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
719 ignores EPIPE as well.
720
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721PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
722 (quoted-printable decoding).
723
cc2ed8f7 724PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 725 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 726
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727PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
728
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729PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
730
731PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
732
38a0a95f 733PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 734 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 735
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736JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
737 in 4.64-PH/09.
738
739JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
740 miscellaneous code fixes
741
6ea85e9a
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742PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
743 rejections.
744
26da7e20
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745PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
746 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
747 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
748 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
749 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
750 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
751 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
752 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 753
14aa5a05 754PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 755 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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756 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
757 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
758 function.
759 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
760 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
761 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
762 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
763 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
764 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
765 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
766 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
767 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
768
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769PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
770 decoding.
771
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772PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
773 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
774 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
775 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
776 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
777 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
778 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
779 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
780
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781PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
782 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
783 list.
784
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785PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
786 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
787 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
788 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
789 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
790 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
791 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
792 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
793 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
794 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
795 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
796 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
797 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
798
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799PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
800 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
801 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
802 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
803 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
804 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
805 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
806
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807PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
808 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
809 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
810 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
811 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
812 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
813 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
814 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
815 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
816 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
817
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818PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
819 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
820 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
821 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
822 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
823
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824PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
825 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
826 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
827 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
828 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
829 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
830 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
831
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832PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
833 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
834 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
835 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
836 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
837 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
838 been verified.
839
48da4259 840PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
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841 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
842 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
843 and authorization.)
844
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845PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
846 if any retry times were supplied.
847
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848PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
849 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
850 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
851
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852PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
853
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854PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
855
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856PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
857 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
858 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
859 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
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860 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
861 before) are ignored.
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863PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
864 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
865
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866PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
867 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
868 committing the later change.]
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869
870PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
871 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
872 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
873 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
874 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
875 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
876 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
877 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
878 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
879
880 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
881 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
882 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
883 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
884 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
885 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
886 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
887 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
888 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
889
890 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
891 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
892 hammering the server.
893
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894PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
895 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
896
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897PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
898
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899PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
900 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
901 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
902
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903PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
904 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
905 one case where this was not true.
906
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907PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
908 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
909 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
910 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
911 fails.
912
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913PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
914 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
915 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
916 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
917 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
918 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
919 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
920 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
921 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
922 smtp transport.
923
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924PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
925 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
926 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
927 same for both kinds of LMTP.
928
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929PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
930 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
931
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932PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
933 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
934 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
935
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936PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
937
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938PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
939
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940PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
941
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942PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
943 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
944 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
945 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
946
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947PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
948 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
949
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950PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
951 be meaningful with "accept".
952
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953SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
954 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
955
956SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
957 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
958 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
959
960SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
961 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
962 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
963 there is data to show.
964 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
965
966SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
967 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
968 as well as the number of messages.
969
970SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
971 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
972 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
973
974SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
975 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
976 have a flag are now skipped.
977
978SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
979 Added the -emptyok flag.
980
981SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
982 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
983
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984JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
985 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
986 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
987
988JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
989 match 4.64-PH/13
990
991JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
992 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
993
994JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
995
996JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
997 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
998
8a10f5a4
PH
999PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1000
30e18802
PH
1001PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1002 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1003 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1004 contravention of the specifications.
1005
55728a4f
PH
1006PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1007 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1008 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1009
d7837193
PH
1010PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1011 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1012 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1013
87054a31
PH
1014PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1015
ea2c01d2
MH
1016MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1017 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1018 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1019 some point in the past.
1020
e4fa6968
PH
1021PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1022 transport during callout processing was broken.
1023
56f5d9bd
PH
1024PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1025 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1026
922e1c28
PH
1027PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1028 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1029
21eb6e72
PH
1030PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1031 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1032
a0540757
PH
1033PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1034
944e9e9c 1035
478be7b0
SC
1036Exim version 4.63
1037-----------------
1038
1039SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1040 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1041
1042SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1043 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1044 there is data to show.
1045 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1046
1047SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1048 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1049
2b965a65
TF
1050TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1051 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1052
45b91596
PH
1053TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1054 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1055
c59f5781
TF
1056TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1057 submissions from trusted users.
1058
90fc3069
TF
1059TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1060 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1061
6083aca0
TF
1062TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1063 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1064 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1065 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1066 there is now a framework to start from.
1067
765b530f
PH
1068PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1069 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1070 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1071
4e167a8c
PH
1072PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1073
4608d683
PH
1074PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1075
b8dc3e4a
PH
1076PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1077
5418e93b
PH
1078PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1079 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1080 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1081
b4a9bda2
PH
1082PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1083 libradius.
1084
45b91596
PH
1085PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1086 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1087 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1088
5547e2c5
PH
1089PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1090 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1091 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1092 its arguments.
1093
dbcef0ea
PH
1094PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1095 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1096 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1097 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1098 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1099
25257489
PH
1100PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1101 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1102
c816d124
PH
1103PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1104
a9ccd69a
PH
1105PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1106 operations in malware.c.
1107
75fa1910
PH
1108PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1109 signatures.
1110
a7d7aa58
PH
1111PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1112 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1113 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1114 all.
1115
42119b09
PH
1116PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1117 statements to "add_header".
1118
41609df5
PH
1119PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1120 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1121
a5bd321b
PH
1122PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1123 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1124 latter.
1125
e85a7ad5 1126PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1127 so that it is now:
1128
e85a7ad5
PH
1129 ${if or { \
1130 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1131 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1132 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1133 }{no}{yes}}
1134
e85a7ad5
PH
1135 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1136 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1137
d8fe1c03
PH
1138PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1139 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1140
16282d2b
PH
1141PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1142 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1143 any possible encoding problems.
1144
35d40a98
PH
1145PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1146 but not after initializing Perl.
1147
034d99ab
PH
1148PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1149 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1150 apparently, which is not desirable.
1151
6ec97b1b
PH
1152PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1153 queries.
1154
e22ca4ac
JJ
1155JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1156 --not options
1157
1158JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1159
33d73e3b
PH
1160PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1161 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1162 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1163 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1164
9ecb03f3
PH
1165PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1166 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1167 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1168
084efe8d
PH
1169PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1170 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1171 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1172 0.12.
1173
366fc9f0
PH
1174PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1175 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1176 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1177 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1178 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1179
c59f5781 1180
c887c79e
TF
1181Exim version 4.62
1182-----------------
1183
1184TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1185 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1186
1cce3af8
PH
1187PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1188 patch).
1189
afb3eaaf
PH
1190PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1191 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1192 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1193 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1194 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1195 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1196 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1197 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1198 451 error is used.
1199
e173618b
PH
1200PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1201
dd16e114
PH
1202PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1203 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1204 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1205
f7fd3850
PH
1206PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1207 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1208 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1209 odd errors.
1210
d87df92c
PH
1211PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1212 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1213
7e9f683d
PH
1214PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1215 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1216 option (which defaults to 0600).
1217
bfad5236
PH
1218PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1219
01c490df
PH
1220PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1221 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1222 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1223 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1224 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1225 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1226 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1227
d6629cdc
PH
1228PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1229
1cce3af8 1230
214e2000
PH
1231Exim version 4.61
1232-----------------
1233
1234PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1235 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1236 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1237 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1238 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1239 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1240 addresses as local.
1241
f9daeae0
PH
1242PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1243 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1244
7e66e54d
PH
1245PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1246
c8ea1597
PH
1247PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1248 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1249 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1250 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1251 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1252 grumble.
1253
911f6fde
PH
1254PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1255 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1256
47ca6d6c
PH
1257PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1258 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1259 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1260 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1261 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1262
ed0e9820
PH
1263PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1264 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1265 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1266 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1267
eff37e47
PH
1268PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1269 be the same on different OS.
1270
1921d2ea
PH
1271PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1272 testing.
1273
b3f69ca8
JJ
1274JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1275 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1276
1277JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1278 in 4.61-PH/06
1279
424a1c63
PH
1280PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1281 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1282 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1283 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1284 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1285 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1286 bounce message.
1287
7a100415
PH
1288PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1289 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1290 when Exim was called.
1291
19b9dc85
PH
1292PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1293 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1294
309bd837
PH
1295PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1296 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1297 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1298 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1299
59e82a2a
PH
1300PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1301 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1302 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1303 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1304 changes:
1305
1306 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1307 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1308 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1309
1310 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1311 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1312 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1313
9edc04ce
PH
1314PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1315 feature).
1316
1349e1e5
PH
1317PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1318 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1319 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1320 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1321 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1322 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1323 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1324 values from the SRV records were lost.
1325
ea49d0e1
PH
1326PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1327 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1328 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1329
064a94c9
PH
1330PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1331 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1332 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1333
727071f8
PH
1334PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1335 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1336 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1337 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1338 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1339 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1340 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1341 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1342 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1343 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1344
f78eb7c6
PH
1345PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1346 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1347 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1348
21c28500
PH
1349PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1350 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1351
1352PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1353 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1354 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1355 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1356 is given.
1357
1688f43b
PH
1358PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1359 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1360 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1361
1362PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1363 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1364 PH/23 above applies.
1365
9675b384
PH
1366PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1367 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1368 (for which there is an explicit test).
1369
6a3f1455
PH
1370PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1371
dac79d3e
PH
1372PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1373 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1374 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1375 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1376 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1377
5977a0b3
PH
1378PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1379 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1380 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1381 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1382
c91535f3
PH
1383PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1384 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1385 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1386
0d46a8c8
PH
1387PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1388
278c6e6c
PH
1389PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1390
2cbb4081
PH
1391PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1392 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1393 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1394
3eef829e
PH
1395PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1396 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1397 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1398 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1399 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1400
1ab95fa6
PH
1401PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1402 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1403 the message gets confusing).
1404
230205fc
PH
1405PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1406 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1407 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1408 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1409
75e0e026
PH
1410PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1411 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1412 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1413 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1414 same order.
1415
1416PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1417 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1418 the different processes.
1419
145396a6
PH
1420PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1421
3cd34f13
PH
1422PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1423
11121d3d
JJ
1424JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1425 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1426
1427JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1428 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1429
1430JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1431 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1432 messages matching specified criteria.
1433
8def5aaf
PH
1434PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1435
929ba01c
PH
1436PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1437 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1438
2632889e
PH
1439PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1440 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1441 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1442 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1443 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1444 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1445 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1446 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1447 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1448 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1449
944a9c55
PH
1450PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1451 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1452 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1453
4a23603b
PH
1454PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1455
4730f942
PH
1456PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1457 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1458 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1459 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1460 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1461 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1462 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1463 the variable.
1464
30dba1e6
PH
1465PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1466 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1467
382afc6b
PH
1468PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1469
a86229cf
PH
1470PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1471
50c99ba6
PH
1472PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1473
d35e429d
PH
1474PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1475 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1476 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1477 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1478 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1479 size of the count of files.
1480
f90d018c
PH
1481PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1482
75def545
PH
1483PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1484 used in LMTP mode:
1485
1486 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1487 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1488 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1489 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1490
1491 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1492 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1493 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1494
1495PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1496 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1497 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1498 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1499 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1500
c46782ef
PH
1501PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1502 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1503
71fafd95
PH
1504PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1505 will now be deprecated.
1506
2c5db4fd
PH
1507PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1508
9cf6b11a
JJ
1509JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1510 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1511 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1512
1513JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1514 with very large, slow to parse queues
1515
1516JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1517
1518JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1519
898d150f
PH
1520PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1521 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1522 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1523 SMTP output lines.
1524
46218253
PH
1525PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1526 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1527 Sieve code now uses this.
1528
e97957bc
PH
1529PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1530 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1531
81e509d7
PH
1532PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1533 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1534
3d240ff7
PH
1535PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1536
b37c4101
PH
1537PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1538 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1539 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1540 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1541 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1542
79378e0f
PH
1543PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1544 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1545 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1546 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1547
e49c7bb4
PH
1548PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1549
d114ec46
PH
1550PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1551
f3d7df6c
PH
1552PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1553 is preferred over IPv4.
1554
715ab376
PH
1555PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1556 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1557 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1558 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1559 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1560 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1561 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1562
6b31b150
PH
1563PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1564 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1565 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1566
1567PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1568
d515a917
PH
1569PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1570 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1571 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1572 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1573 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1574 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1575 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1576 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1577 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1578 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1579 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1580
9b8fadde
PH
1581PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1582 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1583 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1584
214e2000 1585
5de37277
PH
1586Exim version 4.60
1587-----------------
1588
cc38ddbf
PH
1589PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1590
1591 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1592 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1593
1594 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1595 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1596 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1597
72fdd6ae
PH
1598PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1599
1600 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1601 not a single digit.
1602
1603 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1604 string.
1605
1606 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1607 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1608 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1609 silly things.
1610
1611 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1612 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1613
1614 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1615 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1616
cb741023
PH
1617PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1618 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1619 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1620
f174f16e
PH
1621PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1622 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1623
c25242d7
PH
1624PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1625 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1626
1627 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1628
1629 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1630 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1631 this:
1632
1633 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1634
82c19f95
PH
1635PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1636 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1637 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1638 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1639 identical. For example:
1640
1641 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1642
1643 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1644 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1645 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1646
d7ffbc12
PH
1647PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1648 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1649 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1650 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1651
9f526266
PH
1652PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1653 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1654 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1655 message.
1656
87fcc8b9
PH
1657PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1658
1659 o fixes some comments
1660 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1661 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1662 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1663 and documents the missing references header update
1664
1665 and most important:
1666
1667 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1668 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1669 result)
1670
456682f5
PH
1671PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1672 Electronic Mail") by including:
1673
1674 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1675
1676 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1677 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1678 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1679 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1680 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1681
1682 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1683
1684 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1685
1686 The auto-replied keyword:
1687
1688 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1689 message by an automatic process,
1690
1691 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1692
1693 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1694 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1695
1696 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1697 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1698 other messages.
1699
3e46c1aa
PH
1700PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1701 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 1702
49826d12
PH
1703PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1704
eba0c039
PH
1705PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1706 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1707 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1708
a0d6ba8a
PH
1709PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1710 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1711 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1712
f0917727
PH
1713PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1714 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1715 and treats the condition as false.
1716
096fee00
PH
1717PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1718
024bd3c2
PH
1719PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1720 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1721 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1722 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1723 not changing the active code.
1724
1725 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1726 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1727
1728 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1729 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1730
df199fec
PH
1731PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1732 (Bugzilla #53).
1733
d27f1df3
PH
1734PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1735 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1736 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1737 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1738 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1739 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1740 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1741 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1742 the text comparison.
1743
96776534
PH
1744PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1745 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1746 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1747 The same fix has been applied.
1748
5de37277 1749
9a799bc0
PH
1750Exim version 4.54
1751-----------------
1752
1753PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1754 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1755 It now does.
1756
99a4b039
PH
1757PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1758 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1759
1760PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1761
4b233853
PH
1762PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1763 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1764 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1765 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1766 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1767
8857ccfd
PH
1768TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1769 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1770 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1771 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1772 or /domain=).
1773
433a2980
PH
1774PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1775 testing suite.
1776
3e46c1aa 1777
9a799bc0 1778
e3a311ba
TK
1779Exim version 4.53
1780-----------------
1781
1782TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1783 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1784
13b685f9
PH
1785PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1786
395ff96d
PH
1787PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1788
5b68f6e4
PH
1789PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1790 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1791 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1792
1ab52c69
PH
1793PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1794 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1795 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1796
b07e6aa3
PH
1797PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1798 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1799 operating systems.
1800
254e032f
PH
1801PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1802 ${stat: expansion item.
1803
3af76a81
PH
1804PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1805 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1806
2548ba04
PH
1807PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1808 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1809 file for comments.
1810
b6c6011d
PH
1811PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1812
cf39cf57
PH
1813PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1814 setting.
1815
f1513293
PH
1816PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1817 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1818
727549a4
PH
1819TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1820
af46795e
PH
1821PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1822 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1823 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1824 the end of the subprocess.
1825
d7b47fd0
PH
1826PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1827 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1828 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1829 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1830 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1831
ee744174
JJ
1832JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1833
b582ab87
PH
1834TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1835
41a13e0a
PH
1836PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1837 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1838
f625cc5a
PH
1839PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1840
1841PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1842
21f7af35
PH
1843PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1844 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1845 HP-UX compiler.
1846
31480e42
PH
1847PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1848
2d280592
PH
1849PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1850 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1851 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1852
7cd1141b
PH
1853PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1854 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1855
1856PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1857 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1858
750af86e
PH
1859PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1860 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1861
1862 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1863 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1864
1865 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1866 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1867 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1868 contributed by a Radius user.
1869
1870PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1871 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1872
4304270b
TK
1873TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1874 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1875
750af86e
PH
1876PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1877 available.
1878
64ffc24f
PH
1879PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1880 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1881 received.
1882
5dd9625b
PH
1883PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1884 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1885 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1886 header lines when this was not necessary.
1887
5591031b
PH
1888PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
1889
ba18e66a
PH
1890PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
1891 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
1892 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
1893 exists".
1894
9cec981f
PH
1895PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
1896 -bV or -d is used.
1897
aa2b5c79
PH
1898PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
1899 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
1900 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
1901 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 1902
48a53b7f
PH
1903PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
1904
1c59d63b
PH
1905PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
1906
671012da
TK
1907TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
1908
1509d3a8
PH
1909PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
1910
1911PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
1912 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
1913 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
1914 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
1915 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
1916 settings.
1917
1918PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
1919
2fe1a124
PH
1920PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
1921 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
1922 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
1923 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
1924 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
1925 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
1926 which is clearly wrong.
1927
8800895a
PH
1928PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
1929
ccfdb010
PH
1930PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
1931 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
1932 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
1933 subsequently added.
1934
1130bfb0
PH
1935PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
1936 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
1937
ebcb507f
PH
1938PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
1939
c35e155c
PH
1940PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
1941 the "build-* directories that it finds.
1942
95d1f782
PH
1943PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
1944 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
1945
fd6de02e
PH
1946PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
1947 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
1948
58de37c5
PH
1949PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
1950 recipients, not senders.
1951
261cf466
TF
1952TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
1953 the ratelimit ACL was added.
1954
3ee512ff
PH
1955PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
1956
e08c430f
PH
1957PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
1958
bef5a11f
PH
1959PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
1960 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
1961 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
1962 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
1963
7546de58
TF
1964TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
1965
e5d5a95f
TF
1966TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
1967 clock is set back in time.
1968
2e88a017
TF
1969TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
1970 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
1971
a5f65aa4
TF
1972TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
1973 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
1974
e7726cbf
PH
1975PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
1976 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
1977 (see PH/47 above).
1978
a7fdad5b
TF
1979TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
1980 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
1981 header rewrites.
1982
6af56900
PH
1983PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
1984 type ("H").
1985
0925ede6
PH
1986PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
1987
66afa403
TF
1988TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
1989 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
1990 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
1991
0154e85a
TF
1992TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
1993 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
1994 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
1995 helo verification defer as a failure.
1996
16f12c76
PH
1997PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
1998 actual error message.
1999
bbe902f0 2000
e5a9dba6
PH
2001Exim version 4.52
2002-----------------
2003
2004TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2005
22c3b60b
PH
2006PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2007 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2008 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2009 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2010
06a9b4b5
PH
2011TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2012
c1ac6996
PH
2013PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2014 can still be requested.
2015
9c7a242c
PH
2016PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2017 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2018 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2019 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2020
87ba3f5f
PH
2021TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2022 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2023 circumstances, but probably never did.
2024
2025PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2026 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2027 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2028 in the header line.
2029
29aba418
TF
2030TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2031
fe0dab11
TF
2032TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2033 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2034
11d337a4
TK
2035TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2036
2037TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2038
415c8f3b
PH
2039PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2040 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2041 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2042 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2043 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2044 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2045
958541e9
PH
2046PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2047 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2048 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2049 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2050 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2051 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2052
c206415f
TK
2053TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2054 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2055
2a4be8f9
PH
2056PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2057 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2058
1cba11c5
SC
2059SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2060 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2061
2062SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2063
2064SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2065
2066SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2067
2068SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2069
2070SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2071
2072SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2073
1005d00e
TK
2074TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2075
2076TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2077 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2078 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2079
2080TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2081 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2082 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2083 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2084
9b4768fa
PH
2085PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2086 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2087 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2088
2089PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2090 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2091 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2092 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2093
0d7eb84a
PH
2094PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2095 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2096 to be made).
2097
2098PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2099 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2100 should work with maildirs and everything.
2101
40727bee
TK
2102TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2103 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2104
554d2369
TF
2105TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2106 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2107
1f922db1
PH
2108PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2109 function for BDB 4.3.
2110
ef213c3b
PH
2111PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2112
8ac170f3
PH
2113PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2114 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2115 involved.
2116
b1c749bb
PH
2117PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2118 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2119 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2120 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2121 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2122 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2123
4aac9b49
PH
2124PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2125 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2126 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2127 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2128 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2129 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2130 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2131 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2132
294520c8
TK
2133TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2134 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2135 details.
2136
5bd022fe
PH
2137PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2138 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2139
90e9ce59
PH
2140PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2141 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2142 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2143 test. It is now used for both.
2144
5ea81592
PH
2145PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2146 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2147 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2148 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2149 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2150 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2151
c6c2dc1d
PH
2152PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2153 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2154 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2155 string_vformat().
2156
fffffe4c
PH
2157PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2158 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2159 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2160
9a26b6b2
PH
2161PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2162 experimental DomainKeys support:
2163
2164 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2165 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2166 the control was given.
2167
2168 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2169
4aee0225
PH
2170PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2171
32d668a5
PH
2172PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2173
8187c3f3
PH
2174PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2175 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2176 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2177 db.h files).
2178
ff790e47 2179PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2180 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2181 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2182 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2183 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2184 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2185 course.
ff790e47 2186
5417f6d1
PH
2187PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2188 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2189 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2190 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2191 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2192 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2193
59cf8544
PH
2194PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2195 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2196 do -d+all out of habit.
2197
e7ad8a65
PH
2198PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2199 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2200 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2201
ade42478
PH
2202PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2203 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2204 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2205 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2206 record types that Exim uses.
2207
182ad5cf
PH
2208PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2209 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2210 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2211 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2212 non-existent file that was broken.
2213
b0d9fc80
TK
2214TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2215 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2216
2217TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2218 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2219 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2220
2221TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2222
47c7a64a
PH
2223PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2224 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2225 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2226 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2227 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2228 same time.
2229
a388bce4
SC
2230SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2231 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2232 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2233 at a slight CPU cost.
2234
2235SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2236 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2237
2238SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2239 by Marc Sherman.
2240
0793e4ed
SC
2241SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2242
c58b88df
PH
2243PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2244 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2245
e7ad8a65 2246
7982096b
PH
2247Exim version 4.51
2248-----------------
2249
1a46a8c5
PH
2250TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2251 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2252
2f079f46 2253TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2254
2255TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2256
2257PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2258 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2259
2260PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2261 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2262 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2263 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2264 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2265 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2266 file.
2267
2268PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2269 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2270 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2271 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2272 these two options.
2273
2274PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2275 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2276 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2277 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2278 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2279 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2280 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2281 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2282
2283PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2284 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2285
2286PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2287 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2288 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2289 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2290 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2291 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2292
2293PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2294 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2295 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2296 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2297
2298PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2299 Finch).
2300
2301PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2302 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2303
49c2d5ea
PH
2304PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2305 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2306 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2307 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2308 message.
49c2d5ea 2309
bf759a8b
PH
2310PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2311
83364d30
PH
2312PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2313 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2314
7999bbd7
PH
2315PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2316 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2317 to what was transported.)
2318
7dbf77c9
PH
2319TF/01 Added $received_time.
2320
74e0617f
PH
2321PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2322 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2323 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2324 spamd_address settings.
2325
2f079f46
PH
2326PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2327 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2328 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2329 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2330 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2331
8c841523
PH
2332PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2333
7766a4f0
PH
2334PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2335 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2336 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2337 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2338 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2339
8b417f2c
PH
2340PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2341 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2342
901f42cb
PH
2343PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2344 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2345 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2346 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2347 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2348 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2349 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2350 for failure.
2351
f9b9210e
PH
2352PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2353 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2354 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2355 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2356 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2357 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2358 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2359 "input=".
2360
54cdb463
PH
2361PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2362
cf00dad6
PH
2363PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2364 driver and ACL definitions.
2365
acb1b346
PH
2366PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2367 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2368
c5ddb310
PH
2369PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2370 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2371 understands it better than I do:
2372
2373 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2374 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2375
2376 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2377 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2378 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2379 => three warnings about OTP not working
2380 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2381
2382 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2383 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2384 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2385 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2386 for each call.)
2387 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2388 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2389
2390 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2391 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2392 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2393
31619da6
PH
2394PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2395 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2396 specified.
2397
bebaf0fc
PH
2398PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2399 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2400 "Linux".
2401
475fe28a
PH
2402PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2403 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2404 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2405
2406 warn !verify = sender
2407 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2408
2409 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2410 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2411
7e8bec7a
PH
2412PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2413
2414 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2415 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2416
2417 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2418 nomenclature these days.)
2419
e4a89c47
PH
2420PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2421 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2422
5ca2a9a1
PH
2423PH/30 In these circumstances:
2424 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2425 . First host does not offer TLS;
2426 . First host accepts first address;
2427 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2428 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2429 . Second host accepts second address.
2430 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2431 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2432 address.
7e8bec7a 2433
c688b954
PH
2434PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2435 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2436 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2437 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2438 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2439
fed77020
PH
2440PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2441 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2442
7fe1560f
PH
2443PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2444 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2445
ebb6e6d5
PH
2446PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2447 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2448 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2449
9c4e8f60
PH
2450PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2451 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2452 overlooked.
2453
2454PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2455
d7174846
PH
2456PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2457 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2458 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2459 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2460 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2461 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2462 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2463
2464 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2465 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2466 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2467 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2468 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2469
2470 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2471 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2472 routed further.
2473
cfe75fc3
PH
2474PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2475 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2476 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2477 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2478 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2479 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2480
be22d70e
PH
2481PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2482
0612b098
PH
2483PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2484 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2485 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2486 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2487 printable escape sequences.
2488
2e0c1448
PH
2489PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2490 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2491 body only.
2492
447d236c
PH
2493PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2494 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2495 are as follows:
2496
2497 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2498 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2499 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2500 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2501 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2502
2503 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2504 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2505 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2506
d20976dc
PH
2507PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2508
f656d135
PH
2509PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2510 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2511 play with."
2512
2e2a30b4
PH
2513PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2514 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2515 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2516 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2517 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2518 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2519 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2520 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2521 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2522 the log output.
2523
9176e9f0
PH
2524PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2525 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2526 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2527 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2528 "make".
2529
7982096b 2530
bbe902f0
PH
2531A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2532----------------------------------------
2533
2534Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2535changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2536needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2537in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2538that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2539release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2540from 4.43.
2541
2542I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
25434.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2544those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2545historical information.
2546
2547
f7b63901 2548Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2549-----------------
2550
5fe762f6
PH
2551 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2552
139059f6 2553 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2554 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2555
7086e875
PH
2556 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2557 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2558 place.
2559
35af9f61
PH
2560 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2561 filter fails to execute.
2562
b668c215
PH
2563 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2564 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2565 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2566 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2567 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2568
a494b1e1
PH
2569 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2570
2571 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2572 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2573 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2574 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2575
c5fcb476
PH
2576 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2577 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2578 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2579 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2580 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2581
69358f02
PH
2582 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2583
5be20824
PH
258410. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2585
eb2c0248
PH
258611. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2587 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2588 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2589 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2590
2a3eea10
PH
259112. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2592 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2593 sender verification.
2594
259513. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2596 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2597
23c7ff99
PH
259814. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2599
4deaf07d
PH
260015. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2601 connection timeout.
2602
926e1192
PH
260316. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2604 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2605
650edc6f
PH
260617. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2607 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2608
2c7db3f5
PH
260918. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2610 information about exactly what failed.
2611
3d235903
PH
261219. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2613
7c7ad977
PH
261420. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2615 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2616 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2617
981756db
PH
261821. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2619 It is now set to "smtps".
2620
d4eb88df
PH
262122. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2622 ignore_target_hosts.
2623
262423. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2625 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2626 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2627 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2628 "[x.x.x.x]".
2629
7d468ab8
PH
263024. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2631 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2632 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2633
263425. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2635 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2636 wake it up if nothing else does.
2637
62c0818f
PH
263826. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2639 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2640 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2641 end up negative.
2642
26034054
PH
264327. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2644 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2645
af66f652
PH
264628. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2647
90af77f4
PH
264829. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2649 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2650 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2651 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2652 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2653 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2654 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2655 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2656
d8ef3577
PH
265730. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2658 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2659 than one IP address.
2660
5cb8cbc6
PH
266131. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2662 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2663 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2664 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2665
14702f5b
PH
266632. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2667 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2668 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2669 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2670 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2671 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2672
063b1e99
PH
267333. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2674 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2675 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2676 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2677
652e1b65
PH
267834. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2679 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2680 respected.
2681
6f0c9a4f
PH
268235. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2683 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2684 $sender_host_address.
2685
33397d19
PH
268636. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2687 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2688 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2689 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2690 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2691 very small.
2692
7bb56e1f
PH
269337. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2694
2695 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2696 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2697
ea3bc19b
PH
2698 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2699 just the host names, not the priorities.
2700
2701 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
2702 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2703 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 2704
ea3bc19b 2705 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 2706 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 2707
0bcb2a0e
PH
270838. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2709 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2710 domain.
2711
2ac0e484
PH
271239. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2713
4e1fde53
PH
271440. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2715 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2716
de365ded
PH
271741. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2718 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2719 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2720
f05da2e8
PH
272142. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2722
d6453af2
PH
272343. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2724
f7b63901
PH
272544. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2726
272745. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2728 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2729 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2730 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2731 because the tests only now provoked it.
2732
a444213a
PH
273346. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2734 (this can affect the format of dates).
2735
0ec020ea
PH
273647. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2737 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2738 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2739 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2740
b1206957
PH
274148. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2742
274349. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2744 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2745 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2746 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2747
26dd5a95
PH
274850. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2749 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2750 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2751
343b2385
PH
275251. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2753 autoreply.
2754
1c5466b9
PH
275552. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2756 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2757 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2758 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2759 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2760 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2761 is going on).
2762
55ee9ee3
PH
276353. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2764 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2765 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2766 the line.
2767
d38f8232
PH
276854. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2769 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2770 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2771
2772 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2773 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2774 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2775 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2776 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2777 so I produce this patch..."
2778
3295e65b
PH
2779 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2780 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2781 is not defined.
2782
7102e136
PH
278355. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2784 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
2785 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2786 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 2787 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 2788
3ca0ba97
PH
278956. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2790
c2bcbe20
PH
279157. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2792 long debug lines gets shown.
2793
18ce445d
PH
279458. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2795 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2796
1f5b4c3d
PH
279759. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2798
2799 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2800 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2801 of $primary_hostname.
2802
b975ba52
PH
280360. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2804 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2805 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2806 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
2807 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2808 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2809 by change 4.50/55 above.
2810
2811 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2812 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2813 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2814 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2815 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2816 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 2817 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
2818
281961. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2820 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2821 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 2822 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 2823
17ffcae7
PH
282462. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2825 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2826
d95f9fdb
PH
282763. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2828 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2829 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2830 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2831 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2832
86b8287f
PH
283364. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2834 This has been fixed.
2835
60dc5e56
PH
283665. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2837 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2838 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2839 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2840 the caching.)
2841
533244af
PH
284266. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2843
a5a28604
PH
284467. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2845 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2846 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2847 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2848
7e634d24
PH
284968. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2850 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2851
3e11c26b
PH
285269. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2853 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2854 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2855
6729cf78
PH
285670. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2857 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2858 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2859 message there.
2860
00f00ca5
PH
286171. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2862 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2863 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2864
c9bdd01c
PH
286572. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2866 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2867 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2868 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2869
d43194df
PH
287073. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2871 during host lookups.
2872
fe5b5d0b
PH
287374. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2874 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2875
2876 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2877
76a2d7ba
PH
287875. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2879 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2880 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2881 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2882 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2883 background.
2884
288576. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2886 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2887
04f7d5b9
PH
288877. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
2889 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
2890 for the non-SMTP ACL.
2891
bc60667e
PH
289278. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
2893
bb6e88ff
PH
289479. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
2895 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
2896 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
2897 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
2898 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
2899 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
2900 process earlier.
2901
1e70f85b
PH
290280. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
2903 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
2904 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
2905 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
2906 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
2907
290881. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
2909 tables).
2910
4e01f9d6
PH
291182. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
2912
1ee1cef2
PH
291383. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
2914 "vacation" handling.
2915
6e2b4ccc
PH
291684. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
2917 OS variants using glibc.
2918
8e669ac1
PH
291985. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
2920
495ae4b0 2921
bbe902f0
PH
2922----------------------------------------------------
2923See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
2924----------------------------------------------------
2925
2926
2927Exim version 4.44
2928-----------------
2929
2930 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
2931 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
2932 transport
2933
2934 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2935 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2936 place.
2937
2938 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2939 filter fails to execute.
2940
2941 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2942 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2943 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2944 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2945 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2946
2947 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2948 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2949 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2950 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2951
2952 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2953 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2954 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2955 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2956 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2957
2958 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2959
2960 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2961 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2962 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2963 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2964
2965 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2966 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2967 sender verification.
2968
296910. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2970 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2971
297211. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2973 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2974
297512. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2976 ignore_target_hosts.
2977
297813. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2979 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2980 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2981 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2982 "[x.x.x.x]".
2983
298414. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2985 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2986 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2987
298815. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2989 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2990 wake it up if nothing else does.
2991
299216. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2993 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2994 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2995 end up negative.
2996
299717. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2998 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2999
ea3a6f44 300018. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3001
300219. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3003 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3004 empty pattern.
3005
300620. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3007 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3008 one IP address.
3009
ea3a6f44
NM
301021. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3011 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3012 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3013 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3014 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3015 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3016
ea3a6f44
NM
301722. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3018 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3019 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3020
302123. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3022 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3023 $sender_host_address.
3024
302524. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3026
ea3a6f44
NM
302725. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3028 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3029 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3030
303126. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3032 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3033
ea3a6f44
NM
303427. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3035 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3036
ea3a6f44
NM
303728. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3038 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3039 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3040 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3041
304229. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3043 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3044 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3045
ea3a6f44
NM
304630. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3047 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3048 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3049 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3050
ea3a6f44
NM
305131. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3052 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3053 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3054
ea3a6f44
NM
305531. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3056 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3057
ea3a6f44
NM
305832. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3059 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3060 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3061 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3062 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3063 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3064 is going on).
bbe902f0 3065
ea3a6f44
NM
306633. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3067 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3068 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3069 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3070 CAN-2005-0021
3071
ea3a6f44
NM
307234. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3073 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3074 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3075 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3076 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3077 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3078 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3079
3080 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3081 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3082 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3083 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3084 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3085 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3086 CAN-2005-0021
3087
ea3a6f44
NM
308835. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3089 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3090 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3091 CAN-2005-0022
3092
ea3a6f44
NM
309336. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3094 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3095 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3096 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3097 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3098
ea3a6f44
NM
309937. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3100 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3101 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3102 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3103 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3104
ea3a6f44
NM
310538. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3106 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3107 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3108 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3109 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3110
3111
495ae4b0
PH
3112Exim version 4.43
3113-----------------
3114
3115 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3116 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3117 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3118 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3119 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3120 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3121 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3122
3123 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3124 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3125 the delivery.
3126
3127 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3128
3129 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3130
3131 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3132 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3133 to local_scan().
3134
3135 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3136 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3137 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3138 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3139 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3140
3141 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3142 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3143
3144 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3145
3146 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3147
314810. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3149 header_sender only.
3150
315111. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3152 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3153
315412. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3155 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3156 affecting debugging statements).
3157
315813. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3159
316014. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3161 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3162 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3163 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3164 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3165 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3166 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3167 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3168 after the received time, and all would be well.
3169
317015. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3171 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3172 condition in an expansion string.
3173
317416. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3175
317617. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3177 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3178 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3179 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3180 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3181 job under whatever limits there are.
3182
318318. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3184
318519. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3186 space).
3187
318820. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3189 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3190 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3191 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3192 return path is set.
3193
319421. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3195 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3196 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3197 binary data in such strings.
3198
319922. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3200
320123. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3202 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3203 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3204 failure, which is pointless.
3205
320624. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3207
320825. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3209
321026. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3211 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3212 Sender: header lines.
3213
321427. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3215 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3216 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3217
321828. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3219 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3220 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3221 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3222 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3223 happens.
3224
322529. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3226 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3227 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3228 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3229 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3230
323130. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3232 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3233 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3234 1024.
3235
323631. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3237 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3238
323932. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3240 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3241
324233. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3243
324432. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3245
324633. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3247
324834. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3249 syntax error.
3250
325135. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3252
325336. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3254
325537. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3256 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3257 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3258 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3259
326038. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3261 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3262
3263
3264Exim version 4.42
3265-----------------
3266
3267 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3268 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3269 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3270 it was not quoted.
3271 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3272 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3273 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3274 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3275 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3276 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3277
3278 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3279 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3280 verification failure".
3281
3282 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3283 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3284 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3285 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3286
3287 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3288 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3289 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3290 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3291 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3292 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3293 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3294 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3295 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3296 treated as a timeout.
3297
3298 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3299 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3300 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3301 not set for Exim filters).
3302
3303 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3304 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3305 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3306
3307 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3308
3309 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3310 try to make them clearer.
3311
3312 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3313 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3314
3315 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3316
3317 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3318
331910. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3320 only the Cygwin environment.
3321
332211. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3323 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3324 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3325 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3326 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3327
332812. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3329 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3330 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3331 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3332 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3333 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3334 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3335
333613. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3337 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3338
333914. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3340
3341 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3342 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3343 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3344
3345 To: susanne@some.where
3346
3347 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3348 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3349 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3350 of addresses in From: header lines).
3351
3352 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3353 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3354 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3355
3356 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3357 treated as non-personal.
3358
3359 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3360 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3361
336215. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3363
336416. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3365
336617. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3367 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3368 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3369
337018. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3371 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3372
337319. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3374 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3375 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3376 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3377 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3378 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3379
338020. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3381 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3382 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3383 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3384 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3385 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3386 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3387 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3388
3389 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3390
339121. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3392 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3393
339422. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3395 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3396 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3397
339823. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3399 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3400
340124. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3402 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3403 rather than long int.
3404
340525. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3406
340726. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3408
3409
3410Exim version 4.41
3411-----------------
3412
3413 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3414 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3415 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3416 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3417 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3418 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3419
3420
3421Exim version 4.40
3422-----------------
3423
3424 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3425 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3426
3427 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3428 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3429 socklen_t is defined.
3430
3431 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3432 always exist.
3433
3434 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3435 configured.
3436
3437 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3438 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3439 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3440 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3441 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3442
3443 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3444 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3445 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3446 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3447
3448 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3449 of flapping under certain conditions.
3450
3451 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3452 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3453 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3454
3455 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3456
345710. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3458
345911. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3460 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3461 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3462 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3463
346412. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3465 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3466 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3467 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3468 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3469 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3470 preserved with the message after it was received.
3471
347213. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3473 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3474 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3475 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3476 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3477 test suite worked just fine.
3478
347914. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3480 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3481 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3482
348315. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3484 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3485 string.
3486
348716. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3488 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3489 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3490 does not fully solve it.
3491
349217. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3493 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3494 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3495 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3496 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3497
349818. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3499 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3500 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3501
350219. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3503 string, for example:
3504
3505 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3506
3507 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3508 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3509 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3510 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3511 the routers could not see them.
3512
351320. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3514 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3515
351621. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3517 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3518 output).
3519
352022. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3521 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3522 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3523 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3524 that needed quoting.
3525
352623. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3527 was not being matched caselessly.
3528
352924. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3530 backslashes.
3531
353225. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3533 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3534 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3535 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3536 when use_sender is false.
3537
353826. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3539
354027. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3541
354228. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3543
354429. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3545 the configuration file.
3546
354730. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3548 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3549
355031. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3551
355232. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3553 bytes in the message body.
3554
355533. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3556 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3557 delivery.
3558
355934. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3560
356135. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3562
356336. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3564 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3565 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3566 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3567 another IP address.
3568
3569
3570Exim version 4.34
3571-----------------
3572
3573 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3574 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3575
3576 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3577 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3578 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3579 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3580 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3581
3582 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3583 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3584
3585 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3586 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
3587 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
3588
3589 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
3590 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
3591 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
3592
3593 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
3594 for routers.
3595
3596 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
3597 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
3598 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
3599 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
3600 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
3601 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
3602 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
3603
3604
3605Exim version 4.33
3606-----------------
3607
3608 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
3609 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
3610 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
3611 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
3612 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
3613 default (and expected) setting.
3614
3615 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
3616 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
3617 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
3618 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
3619
3620 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
3621 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
3622
3623 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
3624 in domain lists.
3625
3626 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
3627 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
3628 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
3629 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
3630 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
3631 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
3632
3633 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
3634 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
3635 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
3636
3637 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
3638 part (NOT match_host).
3639
3640 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
3641
3642 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
3643 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
3644 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
3645 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
3646 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
3647 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
3648 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
3649 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
3650 the same named file.
3651
365210. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
3653 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
3654 when Exim is built.
3655
365611. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
3657 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
3658 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
3659 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
3660 a host name.
3661
366212. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
3663 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
3664 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
3665
366613. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
3667
366814. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
3669
367015. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
3671
367216. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
3673 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
3674
367517. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
3676 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
3677 before starting the TLS session.
3678
367918. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
3680
368119. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
3682 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
3683
368420. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
3685 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
3686 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
3687 colon in the middle).
3688
3689
3690Exim version 4.32
3691-----------------
3692
3693 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
3694 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
3695 multiple configurations are in use.
3696
3697 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
3698 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
3699 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
3700 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
3701 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
3702 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
3703
3704 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
3705 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
3706
3707 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
3708 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
3709 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
3710
3711 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
3712 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
3713 occurs.
3714
3715 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
3716 that used bh_ and bheader_.
3717
3718 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
3719
3720 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
3721 allowing one more file than it should have been.
3722
3723 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
3724
3725 -prval:sval
3726
3727 is equivalent to
3728
3729 -oMr rval -oMs sval
3730
3731 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
3732 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
3733 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
3734 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
3735 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
3736
373710. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
3738 Exim's behaviour:
3739
3740 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
3741 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
3742 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
3743 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
3744 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
3745 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
3746
3747 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
3748 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
3749 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
3750 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
3751 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
3752 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
3753 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
3754 string.
3755
3756 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
3757 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
3758 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
3759 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
3760 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
3761
376211. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
3763
376412. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
3765 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
3766 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
3767
376813. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
3769
377014. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
3771 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
3772 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
3773 information.
3774
377515. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
3776 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
3777
377816. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
3779 Three changes have been made:
3780
3781 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
3782 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
3783 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
3784 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
3785 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
3786
3787 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
3788 been restored.
3789
3790 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
3791 the modified behaviour.
3792
3793
3794Exim version 4.31
3795-----------------
3796
3797 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
3798 Larry Rosenman.
3799
3800 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
3801 indeed breaks things for older releases.
3802
3803 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
3804 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
3805 try to track down a specific problem.
3806
3807 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
3808 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
3809 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
3810
3811 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
3812 warning.
3813
3814 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
3815 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
3816 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
3817 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
3818 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
3819 some earlier ones do not.
3820
3821 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
3822
3823 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
3824 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
3825 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3826 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
3827 address literals are enabled, of course).
3828
3829 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
3830
383110. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
3832 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
3833 by a command such as
3834
3835 exim -f "" ...
3836
3837 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
3838
383911. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
3840
384112. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
3842 remained set. It is now erased.
3843
384413. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
3845 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
3846
384714. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
3848 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
3849 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
3850 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
3851 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
3852 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
3853 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
3854 appropriate error code.
3855
385615. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
3857 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
3858 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
3859 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
3860 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
3861 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
3862
386316. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
3864 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
3865 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
3866
386717. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
3868 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
3869 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
3870 terminate the header.
3871
387218. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
3873 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
3874 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
3875
387619. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
3877 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
3878 (4.30/29). In particular:
3879
3880 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
3881 imposed.
3882
3883 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
3884 to write a maildirsize file.
3885
3886 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
3887 the transport, the new value overrides.
3888
3889 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
3890 count.
3891
389220. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
3893 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
3894 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
3895 space or a tab.
3896
389721. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
3898 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
3899 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
3900 the fallback hosts.
3901
390222. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
3903 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
3904 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
3905
390623. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
3907 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
3908 using a union.
3909
391024. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
3911 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
3912 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
3913
391425. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
3915
391626. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
3917
391827. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
3919
392028. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
3921 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
3922 become corrupted.
3923
392429. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
3925 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
3926 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
3927 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
3928 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
3929 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
3930 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
3931 too great.
3932
393330. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
3934 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
3935 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
3936 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
3937 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
3938 incorrectly.
3939
394031. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
3941 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
3942 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
3943 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
3944 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
3945 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
3946 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
3947 cached value only when the same options are set.
3948
394932. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
3950
395133. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
3952 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
3953 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
3954 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
3955 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
3956
395734: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
3958 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
3959 it is clearly obsolete.
3960
396135. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
3962 transport.
3963
396436. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
3965 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
3966 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
3967 times.
3968
396937. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
3970 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
3971 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
3972 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
3973 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
3974
397538. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
3976 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
3977 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
3978 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
3979
398039. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
3981
3982 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
3983
3984 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
3985 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
3986 2^31.
3987
398840. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
3989 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
3990 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
3991 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
3992 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
3993 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
3994 $localpart_data.
3995
399641. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
3997 with the -f command-line option.
3998
399942. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4000 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4001 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4002 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4003 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4004 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4005
400643. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4007 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4008 line.
4009
401044. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4011 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4012 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4013 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4014 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4015 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4016 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4017 buffer is too small.
4018
401945. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4020 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4021
402246. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4023 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4024 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4025 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4026 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4027 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4028 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4029 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4030 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4031
403247. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4033 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4034 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4035
403648. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4037 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4038 ACL").
4039
404049. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4041 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4042 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4043 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4044 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4045
404650. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4047 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4048 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4049 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4050 is set.
4051
405251. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4053
405452. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4055
405653. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4057 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4058
405954. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4060 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4061 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4062
406355. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4064 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4065 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4066 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4067 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4068
406956. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4070 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4071 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4072 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4073 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4074 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4075 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4076
407757. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4078 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4079 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4080 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4081 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4082 the test of how many are available.
4083
408458. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4085 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4086 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4087 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4088 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4089 new message is started.
4090
409159. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4092 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4093
409460. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4095 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4096
409761. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4098 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4099 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4100 is no long logged.
4101
410262. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4103 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4104 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4105 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4106 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4107 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4108 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4109
411063. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4111 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4112 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4113 interpreted as octal.
4114
411564. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4116 setting.
4117
411865. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4119 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4120 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4121 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4122 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4123 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4124
412566. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4126 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4127 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4128 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4129
4130 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4131 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4132 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4133 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4134
4135 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4136 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4137 is a bug fix.
4138
4139 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4140 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4141
414267. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4143
414468. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4145 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4146 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4147 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4148
414969. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4150 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4151 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4152 supplied", which is not helpful.
4153
415470. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4155 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4156 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4157
415871. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4159 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4160 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4161 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4162 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4163 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4164 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4165 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4166
416772. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4168 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4169 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4170 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4171 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4172
417373. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4174 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4175 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4176 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4177 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4178 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4179
418074. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4181 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4182 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4183
418475. Added write_rejectlog option.
4185
418676. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4187 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4188 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4189 variables.
4190
419177. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4192
419378. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4194 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4195 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4196 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4197 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4198 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4199 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4200 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4201
420279. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4203 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4204 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4205 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4206 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4207
420880. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4209 Haardt.
4210
421181. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4212 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4213 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4214 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4215 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4216 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4217 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4218 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4219 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4220
4221
4222Exim version 4.30
4223-----------------
4224
4225 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4226 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4227 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4228
4229 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4230 fixed.
4231
4232 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4233 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4234 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4235
4236 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4237 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4238 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4239 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4240 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4241 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4242
4243 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4244 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4245 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4246 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4247 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4248 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4249 the Exim test suite.
4250
4251 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4252 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4253 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4254 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4255
4256 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4257 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4258 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4259 specify it in this variable.
4260
4261 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4262 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4263 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4264 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4265
4266 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4267 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4268 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4269 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4270
4271 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4272 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4273 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4274 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4275 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4276
4277 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4278
427910. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4280 they are logged.
4281
428211. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4283 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4284 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4285 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4286 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4287
428812. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4289 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4290
429113. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4292 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4293 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4294 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4295 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4296
429714. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4298 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4299
430015. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4301 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4302 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4303
430416. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4305 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4306
430717. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4308 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4309
431018. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4311 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4312 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4313
431419. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4315 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4316
431720. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4318 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4319 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4320 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4321
432221. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4323
432422. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4325 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4326 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4327 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4328
432923. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4330
433124. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4332 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4333
433425. Added .include_if_exists.
4335
433626. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4337 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4338 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4339 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4340 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4341 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4342
434327. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4344
434528. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4346 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4347 this.
4348
434929. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4350
435130. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4352 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4353
4354 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4355 550 Sender verify failed
4356
4357 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4358 the final line of the response.
4359
436031. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4361 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4362 all other user lookups.
4363
436432. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4365 delivery time.
4366
436733. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4368 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4369 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4370 result into an int without checking.
4371
437234. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4373 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4374 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4375
437635. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4377 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4378 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4379 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4380
438136. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4382 correctly.
4383
438437. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4385 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4386
438738. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4388 to the empty sender.
4389
439039. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4391 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4392 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4393 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4394 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4395 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4396 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4397 panic log.
4398
439940. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4400 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4401 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4402 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4403 used.
4404
440541. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4406 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4407
440842. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4409 timestamps.
4410
441143. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4412 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4413
441444. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4415
441645. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4417 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4418 logs.
4419
442046. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4421 as soon as it is encountered.
4422
442347. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4424
442548. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4426 rewritten to "<>".
4427
442849. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4429 recognizes a tab character.
4430
443150. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4432 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4433 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4434 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4435
443651. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4437
443852. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4439 crash.
4440
444153. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4442
444354. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4444
444555. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4446 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4447 2822.
4448
444956. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4450 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4451 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4452 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4453 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4454
445557. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4456 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4457
445858. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4459 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4460 list (.included file names were always shown).
4461
446259. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4463 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4464 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4465 root at that time.
4466
446760. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4468 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4469
447061. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4471
447262. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4473
447463. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4475
447664. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4477 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4478 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4479 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4480 failures to open the logs.
4481
448265. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4483 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4484 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4485 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4486 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4487 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4488 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4489
4490
4491Exim version 4.24
4492-----------------
4493
4494 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4495 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4496 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4497 change 4.23/1.
4498
4499 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4500 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4501 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4502
4503 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4504 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4505 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4506
4507 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4508 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4509 causing some misleading effects.
4510
4511 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4512 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4513 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4514
4515 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4516 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4517 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4518 queue-runner function directly.
4519
4520
4521Exim version 4.23
4522-----------------
4523
4524 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4525 HEADERS_CHARSET.
4526
4527 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4528 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4529 was always written to the default place.
4530
4531 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4532 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4533 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4534
4535 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
4536
4537 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
4538
4539 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
4540 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
4541 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
4542
4543 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
4544 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
4545 must start.
4546
4547 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
4548 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
4549 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
4550
4551 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
4552 command line option is disabled.
4553
4554 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
4555 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
4556
4557 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
4558
4559 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
4560
4561 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
4562 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
4563
456410. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
4565
456611. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
4567 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
4568 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
4569 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
4570 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
4571 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
4572
457312. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
4574 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
4575 timeout.
4576
457713. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
4578 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
4579
458014. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
4581 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
4582
458315. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
4584 received was valid base64.
4585
458616. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
4587 name of the variable that was being set.
4588
458917. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
4590
459118. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
4592 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
4593 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
4594 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
4595 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
4596 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
4597
459819. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
4599
460020. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
4601 nor realm was specified.
4602
460321. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
4604 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
4605 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
4606 errors are given to SMTP connections.
4607
460822. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
4609 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
4610 failing to send a response to QUIT.
4611
461223. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
4613 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
4614 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
4615
461624. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
4617 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
4618 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
4619 some systems use these upper case variants.
4620
462125. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
4622 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
4623 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
4624 socket" when it tried to send the third.
4625
462626. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
4627
462827. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
4629 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
4630
463128. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
4632 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
4633 expansion variable.
4634
463529. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
4636
463730. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
4638 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
4639 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
4640 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
4641
464231. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
4643 using it.
4644
464532. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
4646 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
4647 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
4648
464933. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
4650 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
4651
465234. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
4653 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
4654 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
4655 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
4656
465735. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
4658 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
4659 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
4660
466136. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
4662
466337. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
4664 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
4665 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
4666 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
4667 aborted.
4668
466938. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
4670 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
4671 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
4672
467339. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
4674
467540. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
4676 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
4677
467841. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
4679 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
4680
468142. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
4682 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
4683 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
4684 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
4685 when emails are that large.
4686
4687
4688
4689Exim version 4.22
4690-----------------
4691
4692 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
4693 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
4694
4695 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
4696 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
4697 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
4698
4699 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
4700 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
4701 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
4702
4703 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
4704 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
4705 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
4706 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
4707 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
4708
4709 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
4710 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
4711 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
4712 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
4713 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
4714 ever.
4715
4716 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
4717 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
4718 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
4719 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
4720 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
4721 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
4722 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
4723 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
4724 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
4725 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
4726 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
4727 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
4728 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
4729 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
4730
4731 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
4732 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
4733 parameterised it.
4734
4735 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
4736 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
4737 error should be diagnosed.
4738
4739 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
4740 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
4741 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
4742 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
4743 appeared instead of "NULL".
4744
474510. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
4746 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
4747 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
4748 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
4749 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
4750 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
4751 proceeds).
4752
4753 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
4754 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
4755 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
4756
4757
4758Exim version 4.21
4759-----------------
4760
4761 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
4762 or receiver verification errors.
4763
4764 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
4765 name.
4766
4767 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
4768 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
4769 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
4770 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
4771
4772 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
4773 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
4774 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
4775 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
4776 shouldn't happen again.
4777
4778 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
4779 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
4780 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
4781
4782 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
4783 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
4784
4785 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
4786
4787 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
4788 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
4789
4790 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
4791 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
4792 RFC.
4793
479410. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
4795 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
4796 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
4797
479811. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
4799 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
4800 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
4801 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
4802
480312. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
4804 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
4805 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
4806 to define what should happen).
4807
480813. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
4809 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
4810 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
4811
481214. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
4813
481415. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
4815
481616. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
4817 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
4818
481917. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
4820 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
4821 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
4822 structure in all cases.
4823
4824 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
4825 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
4826 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
4827 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
4828
482918. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
4830 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
4831 domain name.
4832
483319. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
4834 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
4835
483620. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
4837 MD5 (which is deprecated).
4838
483921. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
4840 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
4841 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
4842
484322. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
4844 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
4845 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
4846
484723. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
4848 the book and for uniformity.
4849
485024. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
4851
485225. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4853 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
4854 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
4855 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
4856 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
4857 non-existent command as the problem.
4858
485926. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
4860 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
4861 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
4862
486327. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
4864
486528. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
4866 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
4867 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
4868
486929. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
4870 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
4871 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
4872 timestamps using strftime().
4873
487430. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
4875 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
4876
487732. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
4878 transport-time rewrites.
4879
488033. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
4881 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
4882 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
4883 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
4884
488534. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
4886 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
4887
488835. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
4889 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
4890 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
4891 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
4892 comma and a space.
4893
489436. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
4895 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
4896 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
4897 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
4898 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
4899 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
4900 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
4901
490237. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
4903 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
4904 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
4905 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
4906 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
4907
490838. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
4909 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
4910 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
4911 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
4912 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
4913 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
4914 remaining text gets split now.
4915
491639. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
4917 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
4918 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
4919 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
4920
492140. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
4922 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
4923 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
4924 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
4925 $return_path.
4926
492741. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
4928 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
4929 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
4930 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
4931 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
4932 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
4933 passed through if needed.
4934
493542. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
4936 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
4937 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
4938 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
4939 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
4940 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
4941
494243. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
4943 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
4944 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
4945 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
4946 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
4947
494844. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
4949 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
4950 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
4951 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
4952 incorrect size information for certain domains.
4953
495445. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
4955 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
4956 noticed.
4957
495846. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
4959 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
4960 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
4961 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
4962 mayhem of various kinds.
4963
496447. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
4965 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4966 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
4967 the right test for positive values.
4968
496948. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
4970 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
4971 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
4972 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
4973 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
4974 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
4975 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
4976 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
4977 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
4978 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
4979 envelope.
4980
498149. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
4982 module.
4983
498450. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
4985 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
4986 forbidding it.
4987
498851. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
4989 the existing equality matching.
4990
499152. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
4992 dealing with inode numbers.
4993
499453. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
4995 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
4996 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
4997
499854. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
4999 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5000 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5001 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5002 local_scan().
5003
500455. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5005 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5006 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5007 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5008 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5009 relay addresses has also been removed.
5010
501156. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5012
501357. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5014 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5015 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5016
501758. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5018 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5019 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5020 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5021 processing applies to CR:
5022
5023 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5024 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5025
5026 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5027 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5028 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5029 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5030
503159. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5032 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5033 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5034
503560. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5036 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5037 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5038 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5039 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5040 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5041 arisen.
5042
504361. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5044 program routers.
5045
504662. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5047 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5048 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5049 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5050 adds:
5051
5052 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5053
5054 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5055
5056 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5057
505863. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5059 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5060 not considered personal.
5061
506264. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5063
506465. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5065
506666. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5067
506867. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5069 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5070 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5071 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5072 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5073 header lines, and spool format errors.
5074
507568. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5076 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5077 for more flexibility.
5078
507969. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5080 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5081 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5082
508370. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5084 Sabourenkov.
5085
508671. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5087 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5088 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5089 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5090 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5091 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5092 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5093 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5094 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5095
509672. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5097 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5098 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5099 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5100 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5101 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5102 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5103
510473. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5105 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5106 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5107
510874. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5109 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5110 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5111 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5112 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5113 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5114 instead of killing the process with assert().
5115
511675. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5117 than Unicode encoding.
5118
511976. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5120 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5121 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5122 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5123
512477. Added process_log_path.
5125
512678. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5127 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5128
512979. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5130 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5131
513280. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5133 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5134 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5135
513681. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5137 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5138 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5139 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5140 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5141 were applied:
5142
5143 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5144 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5145 as invalid.
5146
514782. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5148 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5149 they will be used during message reception.
5150
5151
5152Exim version 4.20
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5154
5155The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
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