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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Since Exim version 4.90
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10
11JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
12 Previously only the last row was returned.
13
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17
18JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
19 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
20 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
21 pairs of long lines into single ones.
22
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23PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
24 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
25
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26JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
27 This permits better logging.
28
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29JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
30 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
31 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
32 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
33 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 34 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 35
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36JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
37 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
38 "exiwhat" output.
39
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40PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
41 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
42 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
43
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44JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
45 than 255 are no longer allowed.
46
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47JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
48 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
49 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
50 client, there is no benefit for these.
51 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
52 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
53 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
54 is used (3.2.4 +).
55
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56PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
57 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
58
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59JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
60 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
61 erroneously found still-pending ones.
62
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63JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
64 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
65
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66JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
67 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
68 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
69 signature and again for transmission.
70
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71JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
72 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 73 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 74
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75JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
76 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
77 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
78 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
79 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
80 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
81 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
82
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83JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
84 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
85 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 86 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 87
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88PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
89 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
90 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
91 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
92 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
93 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
94 processing options.
95
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96JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
97 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
98 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
99 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
100 connections.
925ac8e4 101
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102PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
103 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
104 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
105 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
106 versions.
107
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108JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
109 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
110 inaccessible.
111
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112JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
113 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
114 banner-time rejection.
115
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116JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
117 callout/hold.
118
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119PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
120 is the name of a transport.
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121 Fixes bug 2140.
122
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123HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
124
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125JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
126 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
127
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128JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
129 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
130 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
131 during compilation.
132
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133JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
134 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
135 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 136 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 137
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138JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
139 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
140 initial verify call returned a defer.
141
ad1a76fe 142JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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143 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
144
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145JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
146 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
147
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148JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
149 if present. Previously it was ignored.
150
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151JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
152 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
153
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154JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
155 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
156 extensible.
157
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158PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
159 Patch provided by Jaroslav Škarvada.
160
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161PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
162 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
163 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
164
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165JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
166 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
167 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
168 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
169
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170HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
171 and confused the parent.
172
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173JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
174 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
175
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176JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
177 for log purposes.
178
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179JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
180 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
181 out-of-order delivery.
182
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183JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
184 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
185 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
186 error for the HELO.
187
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188JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
189 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
190 desynchronisation.
191
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192JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
193 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
194 one run was done. Bug 2189.
195
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196JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
197 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
198 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
199 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
200 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
201 message is still "Temporary local problem".
202
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203JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
204 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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205 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
206
207HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
208 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
209 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
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211JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
212 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
213 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
214 though a different problem.
215
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9427e879 220JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 221 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 222
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223JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
224
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225PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
226 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
227
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228JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
229 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
230
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231JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
232 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
233 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
234 before acknowledging the chunk.
235
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236PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
237 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
238 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
239
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240JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
241 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
242 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
243 should.
244
245JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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246 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
247 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 248
bd8fbe36 249JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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250 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
251
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252JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
253 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
254 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
255 body hash calculated value.
256
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257JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
258 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
259 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
260
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261JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
262
263JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
264 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
265
266JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
267 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
268 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
269
270JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
271 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
272 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
273 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
274 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
275 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
276
277JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
278 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
279 past that check, despite the cost.
280
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281JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
282 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
283 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
284
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285PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
286 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
287 TLS library to consume.
288
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289PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
290
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291PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
292
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293JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
294 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
295 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
296 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
297 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
298 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
299 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
300
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301PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
302
303PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
304
305PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
306 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
307 should be warning-free.
308
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309JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
310
311HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
312 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
313
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314HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
315 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
316 general solution here.
317
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318PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
319 already-broken messages in the queue.
320
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321JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
322
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323JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
324
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329JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
330 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 331
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332JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
333 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
334 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
335
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336JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
337 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
338 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
339 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
340 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
341 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
342 if one fails this test.
343 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
344 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
345
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346JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
347 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
348
23bb6982 349JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 350 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 351
0bd1b1ed 352JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 353 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 354
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355JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
356 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
357
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358JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
359 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
360
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361JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
362
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363JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
364 certificate).
365
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366JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
367 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
368 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
369 connection after a verify cache hit.
370 Do not update it with the verify result either.
371
372JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
373 when routing results in more than one destination address.
374
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375JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
376 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
377 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
378 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
379 when the cutthrough connection is made).
380
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381JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
382 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
383
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384JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
385 Previously they were not counted.
386
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387JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
388 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
389 that needed the lookup.
390
4c04137d 391JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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392 distinguished as "(=".
393
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394JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
395 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
396
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397JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
398
399JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
400 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 401
4c04137d 402JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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403 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
404
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405JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
406 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
407 compatible.
408
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409JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
410 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
411 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
412 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
413
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414JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
415
f59aaaaa 416JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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417 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
418 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 419
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420JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
421 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
422 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
423 be lost.
424
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425JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
426 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
427 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
428 itself :(
429
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430JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
431 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
432 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
433
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434JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
435 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
436 options.
437
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438JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
439
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440PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
441 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
442
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443PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
444 are not in the system include path.
445
ad7fc6eb 446JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 447 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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448 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
449 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 450
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451JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
452 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
453 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
454
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455JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
456
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457HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
458 an incoming connection.
459
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460HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
461 to rspamd.
462
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463HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
464 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 465
87cb4a16 466JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 467 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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468
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473JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
474 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
475 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
476 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 477
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478TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
479 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
480
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481TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
482 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
483 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
484 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
485 outgoing I= field.
486
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487JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
488 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
489 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
490 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
491 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
492 check on the next write.
493
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494HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
495 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
496 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
497 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
498 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
499
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500JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
501 mime_regex ACL conditions.
502
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503JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
504 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
505 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
506
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507JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
508 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
509 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
510 an authenticate fail is not an error.
511
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512HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
513 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
514
4c04137d 515JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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516 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
517
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518JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
519 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
520 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
521 distinct.
522
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523JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
524
525JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
526
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527JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
528
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529JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
530 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
531
98b98887 532JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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533 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
534
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535JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
536
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537JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
538 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
539
540JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
541
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542JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
543 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
544
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545JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
546
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547JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
548 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 549 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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550 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
551 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
552 they will retry in-clear.
553 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
554 at installation time.
555
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556HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
557 with the $config_file variable.
558
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559JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
560 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
561 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
562 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 563 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 564
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565GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
566 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
567 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
568 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
569 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
570
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571JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
572
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573JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
574 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
575 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
576 list order is no longer honoured.
577
4c04137d 578JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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579 for DKIM processing.
580
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581JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
582 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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584JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
585 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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586 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
587 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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589JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
590 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
591
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592JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
593 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
594
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595JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
596 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
597
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598JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
599
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600JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
601 cached by the daemon.
602
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603JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
604 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
605
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606JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
607 keys are given for lookup.
608
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609JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
610 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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611 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
612 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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614JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
615 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
616 server-side so match that on older versions.
617
07c73177 618JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 619 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 620 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 621
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622JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
623 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
624
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625JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
626 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
627 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 628 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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629 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
630 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
631 initial truncated version.
632
ab9152ff 633JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 634
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635JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
636
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637JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
638 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
639
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640JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
641
bc3c7bb7 642HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 643
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644JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
645 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
646 induced overflows.
647
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648JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
649 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
650 stage.
651
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652JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
653 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
654
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655JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
656 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
657 former class.
658
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659JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
660 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
661 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
662
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663JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
664 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
665 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
666 extraction. Accept either.
667
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672JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
673 expanded.
674
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675JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
676
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677JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
678 it.
679
01a4a5c5 680JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 681 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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682 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
683 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
684
cb1d7830 685JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 686 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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687 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
688
610ff438 689JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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690 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
691 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
692 TLS connections
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694JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
695 sites use this now.
696
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697JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
698 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
699 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
700 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
701 have a dsn_lasthop option.
702
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703JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
704 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 705 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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707JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
708
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709JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
710 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
711
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712JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
713 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
714
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715JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
716 /defer_ok option.
717
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718JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
719 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
720
fd4d8871 721JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 722 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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723 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
724
725JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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726 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
727 specify a port-range.
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729JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
730 timeout value per server.
731
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732JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
733 now have the list separator specified.
734
8a512ed5 735JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 736 option values.
8a512ed5 737
82c0c8ea 738JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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739 under OpenSSL.
740
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741JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
742
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743JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
744 rather than the verbs used.
745
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746JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
747 from 255 to 1024 chars.
748
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749JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
750
cfab9d68 751HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 752 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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754JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
755 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
756
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757HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
758 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
759
4c04137d 760JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
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762JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
763
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764JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
765 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 766 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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767 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
768
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769JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
770
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771JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
772 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
773
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774JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
775 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
776
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777JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
778
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779JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
780
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781JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
782
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783JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
784 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
785
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786JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
787 added for tls authenticator.
788
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789HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
790
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795TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
796 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
797 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
798 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
799 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
800 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
801 the script parsing/test process like normal.
802
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803TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
804 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
805 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
806 function when detected.
807
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808JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
809 cause callback expansion.
810
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811TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
812 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
813 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
814 instead of bool when processing it.
815
0f06b4f2 816JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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818
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819JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
820
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821JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
822
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823TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
824
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825TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
826 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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828JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
829 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
830 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
831 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 832 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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833 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
834
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835JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
836 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
837 exceeded it.
838
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839JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
840 version 3.3.6 or later.
841
4c04137d 842JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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843 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
844 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 845 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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846 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
847 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
848 option is defined.
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850TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
851 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
852
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853JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
854 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
855 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
856 matches.
857
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858JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
859 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
860 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
861
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862JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
863 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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864
865JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
866 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
867 syntax errors.
868
3394b36a 869JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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870
871JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
872 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
873
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874TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
875 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
876 tarball.
877
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878JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
879
4c04137d 880JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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881 Bug 1561.
882
883JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
884 output list separator was used.
885
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889TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
890 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
891 return.
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a612424f 893JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 894 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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896JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
897
898TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 899 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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905TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
906
907 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
908 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
909 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
910 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
911 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
912 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
913
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914TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
915 utilities have not been installed.
916
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918 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
919
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920TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
921 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
922
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923TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
924 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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925 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
926 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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928JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
929
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930TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
931 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
932
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933PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
934 not dns_use_dnssec.
935
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936JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
937
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938TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
939 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
940 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
941
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943 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
944 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
945 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
946 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 947 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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949JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
950
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951JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
952 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
953
67d81c10
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954JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
955 failed delivery.
956
b1f8e4f8
JH
957JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
958
511a6c14 959JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
960
961JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
962 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 963
51c7471d
JH
964JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
965 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
966
3695be34
TL
967TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
968
1e06383a
TL
969JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
970
76146973
JH
971JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
972 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
973
974 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
975 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
976 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
977
8c8b8274
TL
978TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
979 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
980 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
981 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 982
35aba663
JH
983JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
984
8c51eead 985JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
986 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
987 lookup).
8c51eead 988
deae092e
HS
989TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
990 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
991 Schlichting.
35aba663 992
fd3b6a4a 993JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 994 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 995
8d91c6dc
LT
996TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
997 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
998
2b4a568d
JH
999JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1000
d2af03f4
HS
1001TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1002 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1003 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1004
9d1c15ef
JH
1005JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1006 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1007
44662487
JH
1008JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1009 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1010 hosts_request_ocsp.
1011
ed3bba5f 1012JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1013 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1014 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1015
8ccd00b1
JH
1016JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1017
8ded8589
TL
1018TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1019 Christian Aistleitner.
1020
f2de3a33
JH
1021JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1022
6eb02f88
TL
1023TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1024 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1025
00bff6f6
JH
1026JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1027 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1028
071c51f7
JH
1029JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1030 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1031
a6d4c44e
TF
1032TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1033 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1034
3ae173e7
ACK
1035TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1036 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1037
c13d09b8
TL
1038TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1039 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1040 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1041
0df4ab80
JH
1042JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1043
66be95e0
PP
1044PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1045 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1046 Jasper Wallace.
1047
1bd0d12b
JH
1048JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1049
0de7239e
TL
1050TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1051 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1052 CVE-2014-2972
1053
fd3b6a4a 1054
2c422e6f 1055Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1056-----------------
1057
1058PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1059
12f69989
PP
1060PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1061 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1062
54c90be1
PP
1063PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1064 by GnuTLS.
1065
1f4a55da
PP
1066PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1067 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1068 routines.
1069
13363eba 1070PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1071
66645890 1072PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1073 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1074 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1075 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1076 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1077
a3fb9793 1078PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1079 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1080 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1081 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1082 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1083 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1084
d27f98fe 1085TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1086
6822b909
TL
1087TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1088
e7568d51
TL
1089TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1090 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1091
ae0e32ee 1092TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1093 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1094 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1095
1096TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1097
e2658fff
TL
1098TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1099
83712b39
TL
1100TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1101 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1102
976b7e9f
JH
1103JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1104
be4a1376
JH
1105JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1106
ec4b68e5
PP
1107PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1108
d7148a07
NM
1109NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1110 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1111
585121e2 1112JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1113
2519e60d
TL
1114PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1115 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1116 function.
a5f239e4 1117
13d08c90
PP
1118PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1119 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1120
bef3ea7f
JH
1121JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1122 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1123 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1124
846726c5
JH
1125JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1126
3a796370
JH
1127JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1128
ea722490 1129JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1130 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1131
b1b05573
JH
1132JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1133 Bugzilla 884.
1134
362145b5
JH
1135JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1136 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1137
3c0a92dc
JH
1138JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1139 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1140
6d7c6175
PP
1141PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1142 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1143 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1144
6f123593
JH
1145JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1146 authenticators.
1147
c8e2fc1e
JH
1148JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1149 for control.
1150
005ac57f
PP
1151PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1152
3f1df0e3
PP
1153PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1154 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1155 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1156 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1157
67bd1ab3
TF
1158TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1159
1160 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1161 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1162 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1163 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1164 the retry rules.
1165
1166 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1167 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1168 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1169
1170 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1171 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1172 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1173 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1174
1ddeb334
TF
1175 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1176 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1177 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1178 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1179 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1180 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1181 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1182
1183 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1184 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1185
326cdc37
TF
1186TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1187
1188 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1189
1190 Resent-From: f
1191
1192 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1193 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1194 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1195 username as equal to the username.
1196
1197 This change corrects that bug.
1198
f62514b3
GF
1199GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1200 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1201 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1202
eb505532
TF
1203TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1204
14c7b357
PP
1205PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1206 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1207 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1208 NULL dereference and crash.
1209
94eaf700
PP
1210JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1211
6f5a440a
PP
1212PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1213 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1214 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1215
514ee161
SC
1216SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1217
fd98a5c6
JH
1218JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1219 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1220 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1221 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1222 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1223 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1224 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1225 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1226 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1227 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1228 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1229
035c7f1e
PP
1230PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1231 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1232
ff284120
PP
1233PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1234 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1235 Bugzilla 880.
1236
26e72755
PP
1237PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1238 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1239 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1240 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1241 an empty string is now equivalent.
1242
0fbd9bff
PP
1243PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1244 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1245 not performing validation itself.
1246
700d22f3
PP
1247PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1248 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1249
fcc8e047
JH
1250JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1251 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1252
4c04137d 1253TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1254
8c020188
PP
1255PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1256 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1257 other false fix of the same issue.
1258 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1259 Bugzilla 1363.
1260
d13cdd30
PP
1261PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1262 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1263
e2fbf4a2
PP
1264PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1265 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1266 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1267
f4c1088b
PP
1268PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1269 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1270 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1271
c5c2182f
PP
1272TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1273
73431ca9
JH
1274JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1275
2d07a215
TL
1276TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1277 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1278
a30a8861
TL
1279TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1280 Alexander Miroch.
1281
33382dd9
TL
1282TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1283 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1284 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1285 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1286 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1287
046172e6
TL
1288TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1289 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1290
581d7bee 1291TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1292 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1293 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1294
1295TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1296 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1297 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1298 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1299
237b2cf2
TL
1300TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1301
9fc5a352
TL
1302TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1303 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1304 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1305
b10e4ec2
TL
1306TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1307
e2cebd74
TL
1308TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1309 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1310 interaction.
1311
1312TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1313 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1314
2519e60d
TL
1315TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1316 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1317
e78e6ecf 1318
4263f395
PP
1319Exim version 4.80.1
1320-------------------
1321
1322PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1323 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1324 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1325
ea722490 1326
b1770b6e 1327Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1328-----------------
1329
1330PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1331 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1332 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1333
23c7e742
NM
1334NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1335
b322aac8
NM
1336NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1337 improved.
1338
4a891427
NM
1339NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1340
c1e794ba 1341PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1342
97753960
PP
1343PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1344
1345PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1346 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1347
df6303fa
PP
1348PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1349 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1350
7e6a8985
PP
1351PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1352 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1353
f1e05cc7 1354PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1355 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1356 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1357
4c287009
PP
1358PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1359
b98bb9ac
PP
1360PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1361 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1362
4a6a987a
PP
1363PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1364
c45dd180 1365PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1366
7db8d074
PP
1367PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1368 non-compliant senders.
1369 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1370
eae0036b 1371NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1372 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1373 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1374
dec5017e
PP
1375PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1376 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1377 in spool file corruption.
1378
c80c5570
PP
1379PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1380 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1381 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1382 "Got SSL error 2".
1383
076b11e2
PP
1384TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1385 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1386 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1387
5407bfff
JH
1388JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1389 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1390
9e45c72b
PP
1391JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1392
e74376d8
PP
1393PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1394 diagnostics.
1395 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1396
4c04137d 1397PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1398 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1399 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1400
7be682ca
PP
1401PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1402 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1403 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1404 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1405
ef840681
PP
1406PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1407 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1408
5bfb4cdf
PP
1409PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1410 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1411 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1412 resolver implementation change.
1413
c6e95d22
PP
1414PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1415 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1416
9cbad13b
PP
1417PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1418
9ee44efb
PP
1419PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1420
6a6084f8
PP
1421PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1422 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1423
12dd53c7
PP
1424PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1425 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1426
9e45c72b 1427JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1428 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1429
17c76198
PP
1430PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1431 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1432 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1433 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1434 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1435
53947857 1436PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1437
eae0036b 1438PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1439 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1440 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1441
9e45c72b 1442JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1443
7390e768
PP
1444PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1445 read-only, out of scope).
1446 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1447
08488c86
PP
1448PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1449 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1450 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1451 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1452
6475bd82
PP
1453PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1454
81f91683
PP
1455PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1456 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1457 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1458 real issues in debug logging.
1459
5779e6aa
PP
1460PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1461 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1462
3375e053
PP
1463PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1464 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1465 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1466
1467PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1468 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1469 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1470 problems.
3375e053 1471
9d26b8c0
PP
1472PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1473 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1474
57eb9e91 1475PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1476 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1477 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1478 needs to override this, it can.
1479
16880d1a
PP
1480PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1481 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1482 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1483
a799883d
PP
1484PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1485 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1486 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1487 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1488
3ecab157 1489PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1490
0599f9cf 1491
867fcbf5
PP
1492Exim version 4.77
1493-----------------
1494
1495PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1496 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1497
f1a29782
TF
1498TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1499
ab42bd23
TK
1500TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1501 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1502
0ca0cf52
TF
1503TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1504 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1505
921b12ca
TF
1506TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1507 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1508 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1509
1510 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1511 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1512 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1513 not safe for signals.
1514
1515 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1516 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1517 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1518 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1519 exiwhat.
1520
c99ce5c9
TF
1521TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1522
1523 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1524 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1525 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1526 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1527 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1528
1529 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1530 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1531 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1532 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1533 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1534 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1535
1536 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1537 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1538 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1539 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1540
1541 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1542 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1543 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1544 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1545
1546 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1547 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1548 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1549 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1550 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1551 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1552 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1553 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1554 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1555
1556 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1557 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1558 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1559 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1560
1561 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1562 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1563 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1564 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1565 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1566 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1567 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1568 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1569 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1570 details in the main documentation.
1571
3634fc25
TF
1572TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1573
792e8a19
TF
1574TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1575
5901f0ab
TF
1576TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1577 repository when doing development or release builds.
1578
7f2a2a43
PP
1579PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1580 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1581
061b7ebd
PP
1582PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1583 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1584 Bugzilla 97.
1585
e12f8c32
PP
1586PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1587
9e949f00 1588PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1589 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1590
1591PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1592 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1593
555ae6af 1594PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1595 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1596
1597PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1598 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1599
6f7fe114
PP
1600PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1601 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1602
c566dd90
PP
1603PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1604 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1605 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1606 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1607
d6cc7c78 1608PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1609 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1610 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1611
0d0e4455
PP
1612PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1613
3399bb60 1614PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1615
1616PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1617 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1618
0ca0cf52 1619
10906672
PP
1620Exim version 4.76
1621-----------------
1622
1623PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1624
754a0503
PP
1625PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1626 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1627
c0c7b2da
PP
1628PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1629
e97d1f08
PP
1630PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1631
084c1d8c
PP
1632PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1633 Bugzilla 1098.
1634
4e7ee012
PP
1635PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1636 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1637
c8d52a00
PP
1638TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1639 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1640
54e7ce4a
PP
1641PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1642 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1643
5ee6f336
PP
1644PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1645 Bugzilla 1104.
1646
c8d52a00 1647TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1648 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1649
1650TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1651 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1652 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1653 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1654
1655PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1656 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1657
10906672 1658
aa097c4c
NM
1659Exim version 4.75
1660-----------------
1661
4c04137d 1662NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1663 Bugzilla 1073
1664
7f3d9eff
TF
1665TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1666 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1667 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1668
159f52d2
TF
1669TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1670 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1671
0cc9542a
PP
1672PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1673 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1674 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1675
f7274286
PP
1676PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1677 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1678
7b797365
PP
1679PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1680 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1681
caacae52
NM
1682NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1683 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1684
09dcaba9
NM
1685NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1686 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1687
bc19a55b
PP
1688PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1689 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1690
bd4c9759
NM
1691NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1692 Fixes bug 943.
1693
b72aab72
PP
1694PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1695 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1696
2fe76745
PP
1697PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1698 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1699
76aa570c
PP
1700PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1701 SQL string expansion failure details.
1702 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1703
f1e5fef5
PP
1704PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1705 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1706
4d805ee9
PP
1707PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1708 extern declarations in function scope.
1709 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1710
cd59ab18
PP
1711PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1712 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1713 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1714 a kernel bug).
1715
332f5cf3
PP
1716PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1717 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1718
29cfeb94
PP
1719PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1720 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1721
660242ad
PP
1722PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1723 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1724
bc4bc4c5
PP
1725PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1726 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1727
2e64baa9
NM
1728NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1729 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1730 Dennis Davis.
1731
4c04137d 1732PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1733
6bac1a9a
PP
1734PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1735
552193f0
NM
1736NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1737 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1738
1b587e48
TF
1739TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1740 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1741
aa097c4c 1742
8c07b69f
TF
1743Exim version 4.74
1744-----------------
1745
1746TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1747 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1748
c0ea85ab
TF
1749TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1750 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1751
0761d44e
TF
1752TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1753
0a349494
PP
1754DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1755 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1756 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1757
1758PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1759 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1760 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1761
fea24b2e
PP
1762PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1763 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1764 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1765 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1766
6545de78
PP
1767PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1768 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1769 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1770 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1771
1670ef10
PP
1772PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1773 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1774 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1775 arbitrary files.
1776
c0886197
PP
1777PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1778 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1779
b7487bce
PP
1780PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1781 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1782 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1783 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1784 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1785
8c07b69f 1786
97fd1e48 1787Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1788-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1789
1790PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1791 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1792 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1793
6901c596
PP
1794PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1795 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1796
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1797JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1798
77bb000f
PP
1799PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1800
a29e5231
PP
1801PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1802
ec5a0394 1803PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1804
55c75993
PP
1805PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1806
453a6645 1807PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1808 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1809 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1810 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1811
8544e77a
PP
1812PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1813 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1814 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1815 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1816 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1817
83e029d5
PP
1818PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1819
ed7f7860
PP
1820PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1821
7d9f747b
PP
1822PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1823
4b2241d2
PP
1824PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1825
10385c15
PP
1826PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1827
dbc4b90d
PP
1828PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1829
532be449
PP
1830PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1831
6a8de854 1832PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1833 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1834 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1835
5dc43717
JJ
1836JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1837
1838JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1839 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1840
3346ab01
PP
1841PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1842 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1843
491fab4c
PP
1844PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1845 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1846 Notification from John Horne.
1847
13eb9497
PP
1848PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1849 compatible.
1850
1851PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1852 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1853 it normally works.
1854
7f36d675
DW
1855DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1856 access.
1857
c1d94452
DW
1858DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1859 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1860 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1861
e2f5dc15
DW
1862DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1863 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1864 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1865 configuration file.
1866
cd25e41d
DW
1867DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1868 option (effectively making it always true).
1869
261dc43e
DW
1870DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1871 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1872
fa32850b
DW
1873DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1874 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1875
79d4bc3d
PP
1876PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1877 run-time user, instead of root.
1878
43236f35 1879PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1880 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1881
fb08281f
DW
1882DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1883 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1884 arguments.
3346ab01 1885
74935b98
DW
1886DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1887 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1888 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1889
90b6341f
DW
1890DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1891
57730b52
ML
1892NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1893
66581d1e 1894
465e92cf
JJ
1895Exim version 4.72
1896-----------------
1897
453a6645
PP
1898JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1899 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1900 typos
465e92cf 1901
453a6645
PP
1902JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1903 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1904 (Finput)
edae0343 1905
9bd3e22c
NM
1906NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1907 Patch from Alain Williams
1908
bb576ff7
NM
1909NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1910
5a1a5845
NM
1911NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1912 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1913
981a9fad
NM
1914NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1915 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1916
7fc497ee
NM
1917NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1918
1a41defa
JJ
1919JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1920
a466095c 1921NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1922 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1923
94a6bd0b
NM
1924TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1925
1926TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1927
1928MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1929 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1930 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1931
c1b141a8
NM
1932NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1933 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1934
b26eacf1 1935NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1936 Patch by Simon Arlott
1937
179c5980 1938PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1939 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1940
9bd3e22c 1941
7c6d71af
NM
1942Exim version 4.71
1943-----------------
1944
7d9f747b 1945TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1946
f013fb92
NM
1947NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1948
0eb8eedd
NM
1949NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1950
663ee6d9
NM
1951NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1952
177ebd9b
NM
1953NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1954
7c6d71af 1955
210f147e
NM
1956Exim version 4.70
1957-----------------
1958
cdd3bb85 1959TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1960 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1961
1962TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1963 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1964 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1965
1966TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1967 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1968 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1969
1970TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1971 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1972
210f147e
NM
1973NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1974 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1975 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1976 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1977
deafd5b3
NM
1978NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1979 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1980 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1981
089793a4
TF
1982TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1983
5f16ca82
TF
1984TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1985
dae9d94e 1986NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1987 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1988
7d9f747b 1989NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1990
06864c44
TF
1991TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1992 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1993 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1994 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1995
65a7d8c3 1996NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1997 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1998
23510047 1999TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2000
7d9f747b 2001NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2002
7d8eec3a 2003NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2004 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2005
89dec7b6
TF
2006TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2007 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2008
a99de90c
TF
2009TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2010 that they are available at delivery time.
2011
e2803e40
TF
2012TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2013
7199e1ee
TF
2014TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2015 incoming_port log selectors.
2016
e276e04b
TF
2017TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2018 setting expands to an empty string.
2019
ce552449 2020NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2021 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2022
e765a0f1 2023NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2024 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2025
4f054c63 2026NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2027 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2028
7d9f747b
PP
2029NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2030 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2031
7d9f747b
PP
2032NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2033 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2034
b52bc06e 2035NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2036 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2037
447de4b0
NM
2038NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2039
4c69d561 2040NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2041 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2042
d5c39246 2043NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2044 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2045
0b23848a
TK
2046TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2047
8f3414a1 2048NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2049 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2050
fb6f955d
NM
2051NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2052
2053NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2054
7d9f747b
PP
2055NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2056 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2057
7d9f747b
PP
2058NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2059 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2060
7d9f747b
PP
2061NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2062 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2063
7d9f747b
PP
2064NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2065 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2066
7d9f747b
PP
2067NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2068 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2069
7d9f747b
PP
2070NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2071 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2072
7d9f747b
PP
2073NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2074 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2075
7d9f747b 2076NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2077 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2078
7d9f747b 2079NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2080
7d9f747b
PP
2081NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2082 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2083
7d9f747b 2084NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2085
7d9f747b 2086NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2087
7d9f747b 2088NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2089
7d9f747b 2090NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2091
17792b53 2092NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2093 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2094
7d9f747b
PP
2095NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2096 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2097
91576cec 2098NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2099 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2100
7d9f747b
PP
2101NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2102 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2103
7d9f747b 2104NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2105
7d9f747b 2106NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2107
7d9f747b 2108NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2109
7d9f747b 2110NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2111
deafd5b3 2112
47db1125
NM
2113Exim version 4.69
2114-----------------
2115
4b3504d0
TK
2116TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2117 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2118 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2119
2120 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2121 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2122 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2123 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2124 build errors in sieve.c.
2125
81ea09ca
NM
2126NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2127 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2128 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2129
f13cddcb
SC
2130SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2131
7d9f747b 2132NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2133
7d9f747b 2134NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2135
7d9f747b 2136NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2137
2138
eb4c0de6
PH
2139Exim version 4.68
2140-----------------
2141
2142PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2143
6a3bceb1
PH
2144PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2145 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2146 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2147 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2148 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2149 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2150 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2151 for iplsearch lookups.
2152
2153 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2154 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2155 previously such lookups could never work.
2156
4c04137d 2157 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2158 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2159 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2160
2e30fa9d
TK
2161TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2162 version.
2163
0806a9c5
MH
2164MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2165 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2166 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2167 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2168 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2169 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2170
ae276964
TK
2171TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2172 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2173
0f2cbd1b
MH
2174MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2175 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2176 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2177 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2178 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2179 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2180
2b85bce7
PH
2181PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2182 local_scan API.
2183
93655c46
PH
2184PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2185
6c512171
PH
2186PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2187 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2188 encrypted.
2189
2190PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2191 by clients under certain conditions.
2192
aa6dc513
PH
2193PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2194 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2195
a96603a0
PH
2196PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2197
8f240103
PH
2198PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2199 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2200
2201PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2202
d677b2f2
PH
2203PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2204
d52120f2
PH
2205PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2206
64f2600a
PH
2207PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2208 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2209
8669f003
PH
2210PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2211
a4dc33a8
PH
2212PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2213 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2214
d6a60c0f
PH
2215PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2216
8f128379
PH
2217PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2218
8932dffe
PH
2219PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2220 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2221 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2222 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2223
ddea74fa 2224PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2225 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2226 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2227
ddea74fa 2228PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2229 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2230
ddea74fa
PH
2231PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2232
ce9f225c
PH
2233PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2234
19897d52
PH
2235PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2236
bc64a74d
PH
2237PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2238 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2239 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2240
eb4c0de6 2241
b4ed4da0
PH
2242Exim version 4.67
2243-----------------
2244
22ad45c9
MH
2245MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2246 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2247 Jan Srzednicki.
2248
b4ed4da0
PH
2249PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2250 issue a MAIL command.
2251
431b7361
PH
2252PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2253
2254 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2255
2256 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2257 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2258 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2259 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2260 item. This has been fixed.
2261
2262PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2263 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2264
83da1223
PH
2265PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2266 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2267
54fc8428
PH
2268PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2269 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2270 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2271
34c5e8dd
SC
2272SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2273
bbe15da8
PH
2274PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2275 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2276 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2277 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2278 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2279
0e8a9471
MH
2280MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2281 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2282 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2283
f0872424
PH
2284PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2285 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2286 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2287 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2288
b01dd148
PH
2289PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2290
6bf342e1
PH
2291PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2292
273f34d0
PH
2293PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2294 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2295 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2296 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2297 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2298
cf8b11a5
PH
2299PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2300
41c7c167
PH
2301PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2302 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2303 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2304 values).
2305
9c57cbc0
PH
2306PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2307
f3f065bb
PH
2308PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2309
047bdd8c
PH
2310PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2311
0ce9abe6
PH
2312PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2313
0e22dfd1
PH
2314PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2315
4c590bd1
PH
2316PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2317 no_callout_flush is set.
2318
09945f1e
PH
2319PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2320 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2321 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2322 fixed.
2323
c51b8e75
PH
2324PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2325
e28326d8 2326PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2327 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2328 other ACL rejections are.
2329
75b1493f
PH
2330PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2331 with slight modification.
2332
7c5214ec
PH
2333PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2334 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2335
4311097e
PH
2336PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2337 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2338 connection.
2339
29f89cad
PH
2340PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2341 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2342
5e687460
SC
2343SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2344
c3611384
PH
2345PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2346 expansion side effects.
2347
5a11a7b4
PH
2348PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2349 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2350 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2351 be the same.
2352
0e20aff9
MH
2353MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2354 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2355 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2356
ca86f471
PH
2357PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2358 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2359 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2360 were accidentally chopped off.
2361
a14e5636
PH
2362PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2363 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2364 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2365 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2366 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2367 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2368 pipelining has not been advertised.
2369
ec95d1a6
PH
2370PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2371
42855d71
PH
2372PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2373 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2374 This has been fixed.
2375
57c2c631
PH
2376PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2377 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2378 reported on Solaris.
2379
58c01c94
PH
2380PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2381 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2382 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2383 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2384 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2385 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2386 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2387
dee5a20a
PH
2388PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2389 cpus.
2390
d2ee6114
PH
2391PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2392
b2d5182b
PH
2393PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2394
79749a79
PH
2395PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2396 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2397 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2398 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2399 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2400 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2401
c456d9bb
PH
2402PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2403 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2404 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2405 host_all_ignored option.
2406
cd9868ec
PH
2407PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2408 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2409 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2410 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2411 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2412 is what is supposed to happen).
2413
ebeaf996
PH
2414PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2415 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2416 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2417 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2418 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2419 uses the Exim user.
2420
2679d413
PH
2421PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2422 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2423 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2424 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2425 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2426 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2427 users.
2428
84024b72
PH
2429PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2430
8005d38e
SC
2431SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2432 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2433 (Jez Hancock).
2434 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2435 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2436
3298c6c6
SC
2437SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2438
a43a27c5
PH
2439PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2440
58eb016e 2441PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2442 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2443 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2444 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2445 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2446 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2447 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2448 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2449 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2450 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2451 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2452
b43a74ea
PH
2453PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2454 advertised in response to EHLO.
2455
b4ed4da0 2456
5dd1517f
PH
2457Exim version 4.66
2458-----------------
2459
2460PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2461 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2462
2463 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2464 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2465
2466 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2467 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2468 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2469
2470 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2471 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2472 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2473 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2474 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2475
2476
93cfa765
TK
2477Exim version 4.65
2478-----------------
2479
2480TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2481 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2482 versions. (#438)
2483
d6066548
MH
2484MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2485 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2486 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2487
4362ff0d
PH
2488PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2489 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2490 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2491 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2492 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2493 rather than extend the field.
2494
93cfa765 2495
944e9e9c
TF
2496Exim version 4.64
2497-----------------
aa41d2de 2498
21d74bd9
TK
2499TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2500 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2501 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2502 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2503 these files.
2504
2505TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2506 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2507 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2508
2509TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2510 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2511 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2512
2513TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2514 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2515 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2516 in the field name.
2517
2b1c6e3a
PH
2518PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2519 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2520 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2521 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2522 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2523 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2524 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2525 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2526 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2527 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2528 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2529
1f872c80
PH
2530PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2531 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2532
2533PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2534 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2535 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2536 ignores EPIPE as well.
2537
d203e649
PH
2538PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2539 (quoted-printable decoding).
2540
cc2ed8f7 2541PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2542 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2543
ddfcd446
PH
2544PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2545
d45b1de8
PH
2546PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2547
2548PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2549
38a0a95f 2550PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2551 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2552
a2405d83
JJ
2553JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2554 in 4.64-PH/09.
2555
2556JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2557 miscellaneous code fixes
2558
6ea85e9a
PH
2559PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2560 rejections.
2561
26da7e20
PH
2562PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2563 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2564 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2565 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2566 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2567 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2568 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2569 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2570
14aa5a05 2571PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2572 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2573 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2574 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2575 function.
2576 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2577 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2578 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2579 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2580 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2581 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2582 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2583 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2584 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2585
ff75a1f7
PH
2586PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2587 decoding.
2588
e6f6568e
PH
2589PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2590 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2591 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2592 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2593 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2594 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2595 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2596 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2597
d6f6e0dc
PH
2598PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2599 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2600 list.
2601
322050c2
PH
2602PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2603 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2604 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2605 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2606 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2607 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2608 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2609 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2610 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2611 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2612 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2613 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2614 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2615
08955dd3
PH
2616PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2617 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2618 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2619 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2620 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2621 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2622 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2623
1eccaa59
PH
2624PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2625 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2626 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2627 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2628 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2629 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2630 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2631 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2632 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2633 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2634
602e59e5
PH
2635PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2636 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2637 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2638 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2639 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2640
411ef850
PH
2641PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2642 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2643 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2644 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2645 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2646 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2647 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2648
7befa435
PH
2649PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2650 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2651 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2652 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2653 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2654 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2655 been verified.
2656
48da4259 2657PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2658 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2659 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2660 and authorization.)
2661
48da4259
PH
2662PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2663 if any retry times were supplied.
2664
d1d5595c
PH
2665PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2666 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2667 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2668
0ef732d9
PH
2669PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2670
328895cc
PH
2671PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2672
fd700877
PH
2673PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2674 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2675 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2676 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2677 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2678 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2679
8dce1a6f
PH
2680PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2681 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2682
17af4a17
PH
2683PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2684 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2685 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2686
2687PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2688 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2689 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2690 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2691 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2692 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2693 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2694 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2695 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2696
2697 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2698 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2699 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2700 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2701 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2702 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2703 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2704 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2705 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2706
2707 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2708 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2709 hammering the server.
2710
c1114884
PH
2711PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2712 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2713
7a0743eb
PH
2714PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2715
0d85fa3f
PH
2716PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2717 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2718 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2719
1bf43b78
PH
2720PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2721 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2722 one case where this was not true.
2723
520de300
PH
2724PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2725 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2726 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2727 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2728 fails.
2729
48c7f9e2
PH
2730PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2731 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2732 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2733 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2734 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2735 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2736 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2737 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2738 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2739 smtp transport.
2740
99ea1c86
PH
2741PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2742 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2743 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2744 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2745
a2042e78
PH
2746PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2747 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2748
4fbcfc2e
PH
2749PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2750 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2751 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2752
aa41d2de
PH
2753PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2754
af561417
PH
2755PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2756
3cc66b45
PH
2757PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2758
194cc0e4
PH
2759PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2760 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2761 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2762 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2763
a401ddaa
PH
2764PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2765 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2766
4e88a19f
PH
2767PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2768 be meaningful with "accept".
2769
d7d7b289
SC
2770SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2771 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2772
2773SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2774 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2775 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2776
2777SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2778 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2779 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2780 there is data to show.
2781 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2782
2783SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2784 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2785 as well as the number of messages.
2786
2787SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2788 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2789 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2790
2791SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2792 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2793 have a flag are now skipped.
2794
2795SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2796 Added the -emptyok flag.
2797
2798SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2799 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2800
0ea2a468
JJ
2801JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2802 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2803 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2804
2805JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2806 match 4.64-PH/13
2807
2808JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2809 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2810
2811JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2812
2813JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2814 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2815
8a10f5a4
PH
2816PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2817
30e18802
PH
2818PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2819 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2820 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2821 contravention of the specifications.
2822
55728a4f
PH
2823PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2824 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2825 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2826
d7837193
PH
2827PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2828 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2829 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2830
87054a31
PH
2831PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2832
ea2c01d2
MH
2833MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2834 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2835 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2836 some point in the past.
2837
e4fa6968
PH
2838PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2839 transport during callout processing was broken.
2840
56f5d9bd
PH
2841PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2842 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2843
922e1c28
PH
2844PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2845 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2846
21eb6e72
PH
2847PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2848 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2849
a0540757
PH
2850PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2851
944e9e9c 2852
478be7b0
SC
2853Exim version 4.63
2854-----------------
2855
2856SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2857 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2858
2859SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2860 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2861 there is data to show.
2862 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2863
2864SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2865 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2866
2b965a65
TF
2867TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2868 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2869
45b91596
PH
2870TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2871 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2872
c59f5781
TF
2873TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2874 submissions from trusted users.
2875
90fc3069
TF
2876TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2877 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2878
6083aca0
TF
2879TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2880 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2881 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2882 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2883 there is now a framework to start from.
2884
765b530f
PH
2885PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2886 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2887 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2888
4e167a8c
PH
2889PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2890
4608d683
PH
2891PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2892
b8dc3e4a
PH
2893PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2894
5418e93b
PH
2895PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2896 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2897 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2898
b4a9bda2
PH
2899PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2900 libradius.
2901
45b91596
PH
2902PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2903 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2904 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2905
5547e2c5
PH
2906PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2907 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2908 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2909 its arguments.
2910
dbcef0ea
PH
2911PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2912 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2913 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2914 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2915 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2916
25257489
PH
2917PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2918 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2919
c816d124
PH
2920PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2921
a9ccd69a
PH
2922PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2923 operations in malware.c.
2924
75fa1910
PH
2925PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2926 signatures.
2927
a7d7aa58
PH
2928PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2929 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2930 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2931 all.
2932
42119b09
PH
2933PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2934 statements to "add_header".
2935
41609df5
PH
2936PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2937 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2938
a5bd321b
PH
2939PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2940 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2941 latter.
2942
e85a7ad5 2943PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2944 so that it is now:
2945
e85a7ad5
PH
2946 ${if or { \
2947 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2948 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2949 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2950 }{no}{yes}}
2951
e85a7ad5
PH
2952 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2953 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2954
d8fe1c03
PH
2955PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2956 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2957
16282d2b
PH
2958PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2959 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2960 any possible encoding problems.
2961
35d40a98
PH
2962PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2963 but not after initializing Perl.
2964
034d99ab
PH
2965PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2966 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2967 apparently, which is not desirable.
2968
6ec97b1b
PH
2969PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2970 queries.
2971
e22ca4ac
JJ
2972JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2973 --not options
2974
2975JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2976
33d73e3b
PH
2977PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2978 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2979 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2980 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2981
9ecb03f3
PH
2982PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2983 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2984 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2985
084efe8d
PH
2986PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2987 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2988 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2989 0.12.
2990
366fc9f0
PH
2991PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2992 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2993 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2994 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2995 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2996
c59f5781 2997
c887c79e
TF
2998Exim version 4.62
2999-----------------
3000
3001TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3002 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3003
1cce3af8
PH
3004PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3005 patch).
3006
afb3eaaf
PH
3007PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3008 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3009 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3010 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3011 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3012 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3013 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3014 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3015 451 error is used.
3016
e173618b
PH
3017PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3018
dd16e114
PH
3019PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3020 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3021 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3022
f7fd3850
PH
3023PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3024 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3025 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3026 odd errors.
3027
d87df92c
PH
3028PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3029 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3030
7e9f683d
PH
3031PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3032 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3033 option (which defaults to 0600).
3034
bfad5236
PH
3035PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3036
01c490df
PH
3037PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3038 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3039 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3040 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3041 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3042 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3043 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3044
d6629cdc
PH
3045PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3046
1cce3af8 3047
214e2000
PH
3048Exim version 4.61
3049-----------------
3050
3051PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3052 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3053 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3054 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3055 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3056 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3057 addresses as local.
3058
f9daeae0
PH
3059PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3060 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3061
7e66e54d
PH
3062PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3063
c8ea1597
PH
3064PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3065 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3066 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3067 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3068 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3069 grumble.
3070
911f6fde
PH
3071PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3072 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3073
47ca6d6c
PH
3074PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3075 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3076 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3077 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3078 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3079
ed0e9820
PH
3080PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3081 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3082 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3083 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3084
eff37e47
PH
3085PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3086 be the same on different OS.
3087
1921d2ea
PH
3088PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3089 testing.
3090
b3f69ca8
JJ
3091JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3092 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3093
3094JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3095 in 4.61-PH/06
3096
424a1c63
PH
3097PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3098 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3099 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3100 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3101 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3102 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3103 bounce message.
3104
7a100415
PH
3105PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3106 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3107 when Exim was called.
3108
19b9dc85
PH
3109PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3110 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3111
309bd837
PH
3112PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3113 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3114 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3115 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3116
59e82a2a
PH
3117PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3118 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3119 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3120 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3121 changes:
3122
3123 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3124 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3125 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3126
3127 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3128 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3129 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3130
9edc04ce
PH
3131PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3132 feature).
3133
1349e1e5
PH
3134PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3135 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3136 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3137 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3138 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3139 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3140 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3141 values from the SRV records were lost.
3142
ea49d0e1
PH
3143PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3144 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3145 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3146
064a94c9
PH
3147PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3148 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3149 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3150
727071f8
PH
3151PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3152 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3153 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3154 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3155 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3156 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3157 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3158 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3159 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3160 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3161
f78eb7c6
PH
3162PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3163 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3164 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3165
21c28500
PH
3166PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3167 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3168
3169PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3170 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3171 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3172 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3173 is given.
3174
1688f43b
PH
3175PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3176 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3177 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3178
3179PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3180 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3181 PH/23 above applies.
3182
9675b384
PH
3183PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3184 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3185 (for which there is an explicit test).
3186
6a3f1455
PH
3187PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3188
dac79d3e
PH
3189PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3190 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3191 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3192 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3193 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3194
5977a0b3
PH
3195PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3196 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3197 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3198 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3199
c91535f3
PH
3200PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3201 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3202 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3203
0d46a8c8
PH
3204PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3205
278c6e6c
PH
3206PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3207
2cbb4081
PH
3208PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3209 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3210 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3211
3eef829e
PH
3212PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3213 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3214 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3215 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3216 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3217
1ab95fa6
PH
3218PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3219 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3220 the message gets confusing).
3221
230205fc
PH
3222PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3223 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3224 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3225 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3226
75e0e026
PH
3227PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3228 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3229 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3230 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3231 same order.
3232
3233PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3234 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3235 the different processes.
3236
145396a6
PH
3237PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3238
3cd34f13
PH
3239PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3240
11121d3d
JJ
3241JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3242 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3243
3244JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3245 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3246
3247JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3248 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3249 messages matching specified criteria.
3250
8def5aaf
PH
3251PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3252
929ba01c
PH
3253PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3254 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3255
2632889e
PH
3256PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3257 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3258 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3259 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3260 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3261 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3262 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3263 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3264 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3265 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3266
944a9c55
PH
3267PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3268 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3269 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3270
4a23603b
PH
3271PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3272
4730f942
PH
3273PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3274 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3275 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3276 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3277 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3278 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3279 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3280 the variable.
3281
30dba1e6
PH
3282PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3283 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3284
382afc6b
PH
3285PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3286
a86229cf
PH
3287PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3288
50c99ba6
PH
3289PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3290
d35e429d
PH
3291PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3292 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3293 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3294 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3295 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3296 size of the count of files.
3297
f90d018c
PH
3298PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3299
75def545
PH
3300PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3301 used in LMTP mode:
3302
3303 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3304 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3305 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3306 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3307
3308 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3309 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3310 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3311
3312PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3313 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3314 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3315 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3316 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3317
c46782ef
PH
3318PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3319 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3320
71fafd95
PH
3321PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3322 will now be deprecated.
3323
2c5db4fd
PH
3324PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3325
9cf6b11a
JJ
3326JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3327 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3328 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3329
3330JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3331 with very large, slow to parse queues
3332
3333JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3334
3335JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3336
898d150f
PH
3337PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3338 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3339 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3340 SMTP output lines.
3341
46218253
PH
3342PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3343 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3344 Sieve code now uses this.
3345
e97957bc
PH
3346PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3347 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3348
81e509d7
PH
3349PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3350 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3351
3d240ff7
PH
3352PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3353
b37c4101
PH
3354PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3355 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3356 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3357 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3358 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3359
79378e0f
PH
3360PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3361 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3362 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3363 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3364
e49c7bb4
PH
3365PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3366
d114ec46
PH
3367PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3368
f3d7df6c
PH
3369PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3370 is preferred over IPv4.
3371
715ab376
PH
3372PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3373 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3374 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3375 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3376 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3377 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3378 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3379
6b31b150
PH
3380PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3381 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3382 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3383
3384PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3385
d515a917
PH
3386PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3387 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3388 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3389 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3390 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3391 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3392 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3393 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3394 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3395 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3396 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3397
9b8fadde
PH
3398PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3399 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3400 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3401
214e2000 3402
5de37277
PH
3403Exim version 4.60
3404-----------------
3405
cc38ddbf
PH
3406PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3407
3408 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3409 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3410
3411 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3412 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3413 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3414
72fdd6ae
PH
3415PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3416
3417 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3418 not a single digit.
3419
3420 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3421 string.
3422
3423 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3424 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3425 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3426 silly things.
3427
3428 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3429 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3430
3431 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3432 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3433
cb741023
PH
3434PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3435 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3436 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3437
f174f16e
PH
3438PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3439 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3440
c25242d7
PH
3441PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3442 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3443
3444 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3445
3446 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3447 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3448 this:
3449
3450 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3451
82c19f95
PH
3452PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3453 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3454 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3455 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3456 identical. For example:
3457
3458 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3459
3460 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3461 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3462 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3463
d7ffbc12
PH
3464PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3465 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3466 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3467 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3468
9f526266
PH
3469PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3470 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3471 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3472 message.
3473
87fcc8b9
PH
3474PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3475
3476 o fixes some comments
3477 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3478 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3479 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3480 and documents the missing references header update
3481
3482 and most important:
3483
3484 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3485 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3486 result)
3487
456682f5
PH
3488PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3489 Electronic Mail") by including:
3490
3491 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3492
3493 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3494 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3495 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3496 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3497 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3498
3499 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3500
3501 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3502
3503 The auto-replied keyword:
3504
3505 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3506 message by an automatic process,
3507
3508 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3509
3510 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3511 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3512
3513 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3514 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3515 other messages.
3516
3e46c1aa
PH
3517PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3518 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3519
49826d12
PH
3520PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3521
eba0c039
PH
3522PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3523 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3524 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3525
a0d6ba8a
PH
3526PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3527 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3528 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3529
f0917727
PH
3530PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3531 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3532 and treats the condition as false.
3533
096fee00
PH
3534PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3535
024bd3c2
PH
3536PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3537 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3538 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3539 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3540 not changing the active code.
3541
3542 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3543 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3544
3545 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3546 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3547
df199fec
PH
3548PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3549 (Bugzilla #53).
3550
d27f1df3
PH
3551PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3552 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3553 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3554 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3555 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3556 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3557 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3558 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3559 the text comparison.
3560
96776534
PH
3561PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3562 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3563 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3564 The same fix has been applied.
3565
5de37277 3566
9a799bc0
PH
3567Exim version 4.54
3568-----------------
3569
3570PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3571 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3572 It now does.
3573
99a4b039
PH
3574PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3575 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3576
3577PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3578
4b233853
PH
3579PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3580 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3581 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3582 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3583 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3584
8857ccfd
PH
3585TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3586 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3587 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3588 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3589 or /domain=).
3590
433a2980
PH
3591PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3592 testing suite.
3593
3e46c1aa 3594
9a799bc0 3595
e3a311ba
TK
3596Exim version 4.53
3597-----------------
3598
3599TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3600 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3601
13b685f9
PH
3602PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3603
395ff96d
PH
3604PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3605
5b68f6e4
PH
3606PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3607 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3608 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3609
1ab52c69
PH
3610PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3611 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3612 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3613
b07e6aa3
PH
3614PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3615 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3616 operating systems.
3617
254e032f
PH
3618PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3619 ${stat: expansion item.
3620
3af76a81
PH
3621PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3622 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3623
2548ba04
PH
3624PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3625 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3626 file for comments.
3627
b6c6011d
PH
3628PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3629
cf39cf57
PH
3630PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3631 setting.
3632
f1513293
PH
3633PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3634 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3635
727549a4
PH
3636TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3637
af46795e
PH
3638PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3639 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3640 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3641 the end of the subprocess.
3642
d7b47fd0
PH
3643PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3644 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3645 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3646 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3647 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3648
ee744174
JJ
3649JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3650
b582ab87
PH
3651TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3652
41a13e0a
PH
3653PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3654 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3655
f625cc5a
PH
3656PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3657
3658PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3659
21f7af35
PH
3660PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3661 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3662 HP-UX compiler.
3663
31480e42
PH
3664PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3665
2d280592
PH
3666PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3667 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3668 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3669
7cd1141b
PH
3670PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3671 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3672
3673PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3674 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3675
750af86e
PH
3676PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3677 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3678
3679 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3680 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3681
3682 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3683 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3684 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3685 contributed by a Radius user.
3686
3687PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3688 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3689
4304270b
TK
3690TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3691 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3692
750af86e
PH
3693PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3694 available.
3695
64ffc24f
PH
3696PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3697 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3698 received.
3699
5dd9625b
PH
3700PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3701 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3702 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3703 header lines when this was not necessary.
3704
5591031b
PH
3705PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3706
ba18e66a
PH
3707PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3708 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3709 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3710 exists".
3711
9cec981f
PH
3712PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3713 -bV or -d is used.
3714
aa2b5c79
PH
3715PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3716 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3717 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3718 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3719
48a53b7f
PH
3720PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3721
1c59d63b
PH
3722PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3723
671012da
TK
3724TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3725
1509d3a8
PH
3726PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3727
3728PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3729 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3730 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3731 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3732 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3733 settings.
3734
3735PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3736
2fe1a124
PH
3737PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3738 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3739 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3740 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3741 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3742 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3743 which is clearly wrong.
3744
8800895a
PH
3745PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3746
ccfdb010
PH
3747PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3748 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3749 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3750 subsequently added.
3751
1130bfb0
PH
3752PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3753 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3754
ebcb507f
PH
3755PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3756
c35e155c
PH
3757PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3758 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3759
95d1f782
PH
3760PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3761 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3762
fd6de02e
PH
3763PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3764 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3765
58de37c5
PH
3766PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3767 recipients, not senders.
3768
261cf466
TF
3769TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3770 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3771
3ee512ff
PH
3772PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3773
e08c430f
PH
3774PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3775
bef5a11f
PH
3776PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3777 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3778 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3779 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3780
7546de58
TF
3781TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3782
e5d5a95f
TF
3783TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3784 clock is set back in time.
3785
2e88a017
TF
3786TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3787 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3788
a5f65aa4
TF
3789TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3790 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3791
e7726cbf
PH
3792PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3793 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3794 (see PH/47 above).
3795
a7fdad5b
TF
3796TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3797 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3798 header rewrites.
3799
6af56900
PH
3800PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3801 type ("H").
3802
0925ede6
PH
3803PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3804
66afa403
TF
3805TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3806 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3807 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3808
0154e85a
TF
3809TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3810 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3811 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3812 helo verification defer as a failure.
3813
16f12c76
PH
3814PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3815 actual error message.
3816
bbe902f0 3817
e5a9dba6
PH
3818Exim version 4.52
3819-----------------
3820
3821TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3822
22c3b60b
PH
3823PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3824 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3825 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3826 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3827
06a9b4b5
PH
3828TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3829
c1ac6996
PH
3830PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3831 can still be requested.
3832
9c7a242c
PH
3833PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3834 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3835 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3836 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3837
87ba3f5f
PH
3838TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3839 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3840 circumstances, but probably never did.
3841
3842PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3843 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3844 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3845 in the header line.
3846
29aba418
TF
3847TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3848
fe0dab11
TF
3849TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3850 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3851
11d337a4
TK
3852TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3853
3854TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3855
415c8f3b
PH
3856PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3857 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3858 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3859 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3860 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3861 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3862
958541e9
PH
3863PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3864 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3865 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3866 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3867 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3868 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3869
c206415f
TK
3870TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3871 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3872
2a4be8f9
PH
3873PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3874 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3875
1cba11c5
SC
3876SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3877 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3878
4c04137d 3879SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3880
3881SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3882
3883SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3884
3885SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3886
3887SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3888
3889SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3890
1005d00e
TK
3891TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3892
3893TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3894 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3895 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3896
3897TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3898 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3899 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3900 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3901
9b4768fa
PH
3902PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3903 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3904 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3905
3906PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3907 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3908 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3909 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3910
0d7eb84a
PH
3911PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3912 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3913 to be made).
3914
3915PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3916 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3917 should work with maildirs and everything.
3918
40727bee
TK
3919TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3920 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3921
554d2369
TF
3922TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3923 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3924
1f922db1
PH
3925PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3926 function for BDB 4.3.
3927
ef213c3b
PH
3928PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3929
8ac170f3
PH
3930PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3931 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3932 involved.
3933
b1c749bb
PH
3934PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3935 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3936 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3937 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3938 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3939 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3940
4aac9b49
PH
3941PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3942 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3943 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3944 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3945 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3946 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3947 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3948 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3949
294520c8
TK
3950TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3951 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3952 details.
3953
5bd022fe
PH
3954PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3955 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3956
90e9ce59
PH
3957PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3958 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3959 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3960 test. It is now used for both.
3961
5ea81592
PH
3962PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3963 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3964 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3965 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3966 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3967 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3968
c6c2dc1d
PH
3969PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3970 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3971 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3972 string_vformat().
3973
fffffe4c
PH
3974PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3975 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3976 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3977
9a26b6b2
PH
3978PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3979 experimental DomainKeys support:
3980
3981 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3982 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3983 the control was given.
3984
3985 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3986
4aee0225
PH
3987PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3988
32d668a5
PH
3989PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3990
8187c3f3
PH
3991PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3992 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3993 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3994 db.h files).
3995
ff790e47 3996PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3997 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3998 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3999 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4000 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4001 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4002 course.
ff790e47 4003
5417f6d1
PH
4004PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4005 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4006 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4007 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4008 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4009 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4010
59cf8544
PH
4011PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4012 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4013 do -d+all out of habit.
4014
e7ad8a65
PH
4015PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4016 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4017 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4018
ade42478
PH
4019PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4020 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4021 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4022 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4023 record types that Exim uses.
4024
182ad5cf
PH
4025PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4026 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4027 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4028 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4029 non-existent file that was broken.
4030
b0d9fc80
TK
4031TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4032 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4033
4034TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4035 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4036 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4037
4038TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4039
47c7a64a
PH
4040PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4041 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4042 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4043 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4044 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4045 same time.
4046
a388bce4
SC
4047SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4048 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4049 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4050 at a slight CPU cost.
4051
4052SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4053 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4054
4055SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4056 by Marc Sherman.
4057
0793e4ed
SC
4058SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4059
c58b88df
PH
4060PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4061 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4062
e7ad8a65 4063
7982096b
PH
4064Exim version 4.51
4065-----------------
4066
1a46a8c5
PH
4067TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4068 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4069
2f079f46 4070TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4071
4072TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4073
4074PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4075 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4076
4077PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4078 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4079 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4080 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4081 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4082 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4083 file.
4084
4085PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4086 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4087 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4088 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4089 these two options.
4090
4091PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4092 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4093 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4094 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4095 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4096 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4097 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4098 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4099
4100PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4101 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4102
4103PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4104 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4105 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4106 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4107 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4108 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4109
4110PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4111 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4112 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4113 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4114
4115PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4116 Finch).
4117
4118PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4119 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4120
49c2d5ea
PH
4121PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4122 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4123 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4124 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4125 message.
49c2d5ea 4126
bf759a8b
PH
4127PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4128
83364d30
PH
4129PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4130 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4131
7999bbd7
PH
4132PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4133 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4134 to what was transported.)
4135
7dbf77c9
PH
4136TF/01 Added $received_time.
4137
74e0617f
PH
4138PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4139 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4140 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4141 spamd_address settings.
4142
2f079f46
PH
4143PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4144 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4145 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4146 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4147 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4148
8c841523
PH
4149PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4150
7766a4f0
PH
4151PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4152 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4153 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4154 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4155 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4156
8b417f2c
PH
4157PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4158 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4159
901f42cb
PH
4160PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4161 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4162 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4163 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4164 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4165 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4166 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4167 for failure.
4168
f9b9210e
PH
4169PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4170 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4171 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4172 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4173 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4174 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4175 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4176 "input=".
4177
54cdb463
PH
4178PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4179
cf00dad6
PH
4180PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4181 driver and ACL definitions.
4182
acb1b346
PH
4183PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4184 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4185
c5ddb310
PH
4186PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4187 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4188 understands it better than I do:
4189
4190 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4191 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4192
4193 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4194 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4195 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4196 => three warnings about OTP not working
4197 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4198
4199 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4200 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4201 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4202 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4203 for each call.)
4204 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4205 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4206
4207 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4208 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4209 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4210
31619da6
PH
4211PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4212 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4213 specified.
4214
bebaf0fc
PH
4215PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4216 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4217 "Linux".
4218
475fe28a
PH
4219PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4220 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4221 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4222
4223 warn !verify = sender
4224 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4225
4226 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4227 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4228
7e8bec7a
PH
4229PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4230
4231 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4232 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4233
4234 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4235 nomenclature these days.)
4236
e4a89c47
PH
4237PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4238 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4239
5ca2a9a1
PH
4240PH/30 In these circumstances:
4241 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4242 . First host does not offer TLS;
4243 . First host accepts first address;
4244 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4245 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4246 . Second host accepts second address.
4247 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4248 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4249 address.
7e8bec7a 4250
c688b954
PH
4251PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4252 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4253 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4254 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4255 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4256
fed77020
PH
4257PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4258 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4259
7fe1560f
PH
4260PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4261 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4262
ebb6e6d5
PH
4263PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4264 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4265 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4266
9c4e8f60
PH
4267PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4268 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4269 overlooked.
4270
4271PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4272
d7174846
PH
4273PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4274 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4275 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4276 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4277 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4278 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4279 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4280
4281 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4282 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4283 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4284 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4285 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4286
4287 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4288 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4289 routed further.
4290
cfe75fc3
PH
4291PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4292 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4293 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4294 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4295 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4296 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4297
be22d70e
PH
4298PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4299
0612b098
PH
4300PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4301 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4302 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4303 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4304 printable escape sequences.
4305
2e0c1448
PH
4306PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4307 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4308 body only.
4309
447d236c
PH
4310PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4311 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4312 are as follows:
4313
4314 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4315 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4316 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4317 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4318 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4319
4320 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4321 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4322 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4323
d20976dc
PH
4324PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4325
f656d135
PH
4326PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4327 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4328 play with."
4329
2e2a30b4
PH
4330PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4331 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4332 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4333 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4334 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4335 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4336 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4337 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4338 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4339 the log output.
4340
9176e9f0
PH
4341PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4342 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4343 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4344 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4345 "make".
4346
7982096b 4347
bbe902f0
PH
4348A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4349----------------------------------------
4350
4351Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4352changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4353needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4354in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4355that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4356release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4357from 4.43.
4358
4359I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
43604.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4361those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4362historical information.
4363
4364
f7b63901 4365Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4366-----------------
4367
5fe762f6
PH
4368 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4369
139059f6 4370 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4371 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4372
7086e875
PH
4373 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4374 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4375 place.
4376
35af9f61
PH
4377 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4378 filter fails to execute.
4379
b668c215
PH
4380 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4381 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4382 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4383 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4384 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4385
a494b1e1
PH
4386 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4387
4388 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4389 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4390 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4391 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4392
c5fcb476
PH
4393 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4394 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4395 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4396 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4397 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4398
69358f02
PH
4399 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4400
5be20824
PH
440110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4402
eb2c0248
PH
440311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4404 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4405 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4406 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4407
2a3eea10
PH
440812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4409 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4410 sender verification.
4411
441213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4413 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4414
23c7ff99
PH
441514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4416
4deaf07d
PH
441715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4418 connection timeout.
4419
926e1192
PH
442016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4421 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4422
650edc6f
PH
442317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4424 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4425
2c7db3f5
PH
442618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4427 information about exactly what failed.
4428
3d235903
PH
442919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4430
7c7ad977
PH
443120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4432 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4433 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4434
981756db
PH
443521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4436 It is now set to "smtps".
4437
d4eb88df
PH
443822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4439 ignore_target_hosts.
4440
444123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4442 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4443 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4444 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4445 "[x.x.x.x]".
4446
7d468ab8
PH
444724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4448 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4449 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4450
445125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4452 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4453 wake it up if nothing else does.
4454
62c0818f
PH
445526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4456 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4457 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4458 end up negative.
4459
26034054
PH
446027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4461 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4462
af66f652
PH
446328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4464
90af77f4
PH
446529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4466 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4467 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4468 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4469 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4470 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4471 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4472 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4473
d8ef3577
PH
447430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4475 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4476 than one IP address.
4477
5cb8cbc6
PH
447831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4479 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4480 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4481 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4482
14702f5b
PH
448332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4484 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4485 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4486 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4487 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4488 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4489
063b1e99
PH
449033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4491 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4492 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4493 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4494
652e1b65
PH
449534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4496 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4497 respected.
4498
6f0c9a4f
PH
449935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4500 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4501 $sender_host_address.
4502
33397d19
PH
450336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4504 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4505 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4506 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4507 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4508 very small.
4509
7bb56e1f
PH
451037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4511
4512 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4513 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4514
ea3bc19b
PH
4515 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4516 just the host names, not the priorities.
4517
4518 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4519 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4520 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4521
ea3bc19b 4522 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4523 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4524
0bcb2a0e
PH
452538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4526 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4527 domain.
4528
2ac0e484
PH
452939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4530
4e1fde53
PH
453140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4532 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4533
de365ded
PH
453441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4535 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4536 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4537
f05da2e8
PH
453842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4539
d6453af2
PH
454043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4541
f7b63901
PH
454244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4543
454445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4545 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4546 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4547 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4548 because the tests only now provoked it.
4549
a444213a
PH
455046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4551 (this can affect the format of dates).
4552
0ec020ea
PH
455347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4554 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4555 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4556 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4557
b1206957
PH
455848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4559
456049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4561 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4562 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4563 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4564
26dd5a95
PH
456550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4566 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4567 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4568
343b2385
PH
456951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4570 autoreply.
4571
1c5466b9
PH
457252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4573 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4574 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4575 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4576 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4577 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4578 is going on).
4579
55ee9ee3
PH
458053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4581 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4582 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4583 the line.
4584
d38f8232
PH
458554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4586 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4587 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4588
4589 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4590 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4591 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4592 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4593 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4594 so I produce this patch..."
4595
3295e65b
PH
4596 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4597 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4598 is not defined.
4599
7102e136
PH
460055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4601 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4602 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4603 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4604 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4605
3ca0ba97
PH
460656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4607
c2bcbe20
PH
460857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4609 long debug lines gets shown.
4610
18ce445d
PH
461158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4612 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4613
1f5b4c3d
PH
461459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4615
4616 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4617 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4618 of $primary_hostname.
4619
b975ba52
PH
462060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4621 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4622 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4623 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4624 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4625 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4626 by change 4.50/55 above.
4627
4628 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4629 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4630 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4631 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4632 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4633 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4634 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4635
463661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4637 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4638 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4639 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4640
17ffcae7
PH
464162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4642 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4643
d95f9fdb
PH
464463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4645 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4646 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4647 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4648 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4649
86b8287f
PH
465064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4651 This has been fixed.
4652
60dc5e56
PH
465365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4654 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4655 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4656 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4657 the caching.)
4658
533244af
PH
465966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4660
a5a28604
PH
466167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4662 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4663 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4664 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4665
7e634d24
PH
466668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4667 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4668
3e11c26b
PH
466969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4670 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4671 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4672
6729cf78
PH
467370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4674 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4675 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4676 message there.
4677
00f00ca5
PH
467871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4679 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4680 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4681
c9bdd01c
PH
468272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4683 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4684 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4685 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4686
d43194df
PH
468773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4688 during host lookups.
4689
fe5b5d0b
PH
469074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4691 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4692
4693 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4694
76a2d7ba
PH
469575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4696 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4697 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4698 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4699 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4700 background.
4701
470276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4703 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4704
04f7d5b9
PH
470577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4706 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4707 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4708
bc60667e
PH
470978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4710
bb6e88ff
PH
471179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4712 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4713 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4714 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4715 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4716 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4717 process earlier.
4718
1e70f85b
PH
471980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4720 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4721 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4722 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4723 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4724
472581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4726 tables).
4727
4e01f9d6
PH
472882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4729
1ee1cef2
PH
473083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4731 "vacation" handling.
4732
6e2b4ccc
PH
473384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4734 OS variants using glibc.
4735
8e669ac1
PH
473685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4737
495ae4b0 4738
bbe902f0
PH
4739----------------------------------------------------
4740See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4741----------------------------------------------------
4742
4743
4744Exim version 4.44
4745-----------------
4746
4747 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4748 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4749 transport
4750
4751 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4752 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4753 place.
4754
4755 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4756 filter fails to execute.
4757
4758 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4759 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4760 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4761 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4762 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4763
4764 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4765 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4766 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4767 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4768
4769 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4770 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4771 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4772 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4773 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4774
4775 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4776
4777 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4778 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4779 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4780 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4781
4782 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4783 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4784 sender verification.
4785
478610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4787 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4788
478911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4790 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4791
479212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4793 ignore_target_hosts.
4794
479513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4796 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4797 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4798 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4799 "[x.x.x.x]".
4800
480114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4802 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4803 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4804
480515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4806 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4807 wake it up if nothing else does.
4808
480916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4810 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4811 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4812 end up negative.
4813
481417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4815 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4816
ea3a6f44 481718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4818
481919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4820 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4821 empty pattern.
4822
482320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4824 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4825 one IP address.
4826
ea3a6f44
NM
482721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4828 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4829 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4830 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4831 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4832 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4833
ea3a6f44
NM
483422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4835 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4836 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4837
483823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4839 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4840 $sender_host_address.
4841
484224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4843
ea3a6f44
NM
484425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4845 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4846 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4847
484826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4849 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4850
ea3a6f44
NM
485127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4852 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4853
ea3a6f44
NM
485428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4855 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4856 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4857 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4858
485929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4860 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4861 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4862
ea3a6f44
NM
486330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4864 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4865 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4866 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4867
ea3a6f44
NM
486831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4869 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4870 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4871
ea3a6f44
NM
487231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4873 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4874
ea3a6f44
NM
487532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4876 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4877 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4878 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4879 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4880 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4881 is going on).
bbe902f0 4882
ea3a6f44
NM
488333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4884 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4885 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4886 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4887 CAN-2005-0021
4888
ea3a6f44
NM
488934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4890 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4891 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4892 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4893 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4894 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4895 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4896
4897 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4898 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4899 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4900 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4901 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4902 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4903 CAN-2005-0021
4904
ea3a6f44
NM
490535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4906 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4907 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4908 CAN-2005-0022
4909
ea3a6f44
NM
491036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4911 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4912 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4913 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4914 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4915
ea3a6f44
NM
491637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4917 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4918 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4919 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4920 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4921
ea3a6f44
NM
492238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4923 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4924 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4925 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4926 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4927
4928
495ae4b0
PH
4929Exim version 4.43
4930-----------------
4931
4932 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4933 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4934 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4935 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4936 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4937 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4938 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4939
4940 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4941 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4942 the delivery.
4943
4944 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4945
4946 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4947
4948 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4949 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4950 to local_scan().
4951
4952 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4953 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4954 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4955 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4956 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4957
4958 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4959 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4960
4961 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4962
4963 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4964
496510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4966 header_sender only.
4967
496811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4969 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4970
497112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4972 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4973 affecting debugging statements).
4974
497513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4976
497714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4978 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4979 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4980 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4981 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4982 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4983 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4984 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4985 after the received time, and all would be well.
4986
498715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4988 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4989 condition in an expansion string.
4990
499116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4992
499317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4994 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4995 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4996 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4997 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4998 job under whatever limits there are.
4999
500018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5001
500219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5003 space).
5004
500520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5006 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5007 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5008 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5009 return path is set.
5010
501121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5012 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5013 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5014 binary data in such strings.
5015
501622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5017
501823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5019 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5020 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5021 failure, which is pointless.
5022
502324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5024
502525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5026
502726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5028 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5029 Sender: header lines.
5030
503127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5032 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5033 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5034
503528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5036 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5037 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5038 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5039 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5040 happens.
5041
504229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5043 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5044 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5045 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5046 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5047
504830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5049 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5050 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5051 1024.
5052
505331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5054 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5055
505632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5057 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5058
505933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5060
506132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5062
506333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5064
506534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5066 syntax error.
5067
506835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5069
507036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5071
507237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5073 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5074 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5075 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5076
507738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5078 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5079
5080
5081Exim version 4.42
5082-----------------
5083
5084 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5085 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5086 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5087 it was not quoted.
5088 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5089 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5090 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5091 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5092 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5093 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5094
5095 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5096 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5097 verification failure".
5098
5099 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5100 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5101 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5102 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5103
5104 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5105 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5106 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5107 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5108 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5109 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5110 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5111 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5112 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5113 treated as a timeout.
5114
5115 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5116 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5117 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5118 not set for Exim filters).
5119
5120 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5121 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5122 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5123
5124 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5125
5126 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5127 try to make them clearer.
5128
5129 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5130 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5131
5132 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5133
5134 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5135
513610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5137 only the Cygwin environment.
5138
513911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5140 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5141 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5142 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5143 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5144
514512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5146 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5147 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5148 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5149 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5150 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5151 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5152
515313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5154 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5155
515614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5157
5158 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5159 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5160 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5161
5162 To: susanne@some.where
5163
5164 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5165 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5166 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5167 of addresses in From: header lines).
5168
5169 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5170 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5171 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5172
5173 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5174 treated as non-personal.
5175
5176 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5177 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5178
517915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5180
518116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5182
518317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5184 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5185 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5186
518718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5188 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5189
519019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5191 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5192 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5193 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5194 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5195 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5196
519720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5198 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5199 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5200 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5201 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5202 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5203 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5204 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5205
5206 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5207
520821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5209 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5210
521122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5212 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5213 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5214
521523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5216 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5217
521824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5219 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5220 rather than long int.
5221
522225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5223
522426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5225
5226
5227Exim version 4.41
5228-----------------
5229
5230 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5231 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5232 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5233 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5234 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5235 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5236
5237
5238Exim version 4.40
5239-----------------
5240
5241 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5242 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5243
5244 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5245 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5246 socklen_t is defined.
5247
5248 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5249 always exist.
5250
5251 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5252 configured.
5253
5254 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5255 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5256 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5257 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5258 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5259
5260 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5261 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5262 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5263 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5264
5265 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5266 of flapping under certain conditions.
5267
5268 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5269 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5270 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5271
5272 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5273
527410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5275
527611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5277 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5278 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5279 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5280
528112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5282 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5283 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5284 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5285 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5286 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5287 preserved with the message after it was received.
5288
528913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5290 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5291 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5292 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5293 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5294 test suite worked just fine.
5295
529614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5297 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5298 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5299
530015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5301 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5302 string.
5303
530416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5305 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5306 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5307 does not fully solve it.
5308
530917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5310 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5311 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5312 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5313 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5314
531518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5316 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5317 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5318
531919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5320 string, for example:
5321
5322 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5323
5324 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5325 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5326 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5327 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5328 the routers could not see them.
5329
533020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5331 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5332
533321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5334 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5335 output).
5336
533722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5338 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5339 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5340 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5341 that needed quoting.
5342
534323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5344 was not being matched caselessly.
5345
534624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5347 backslashes.
5348
534925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5350 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5351 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5352 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5353 when use_sender is false.
5354
535526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5356
535727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5358
535928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5360
536129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5362 the configuration file.
5363
536430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5365 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5366
536731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5368
536932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5370 bytes in the message body.
5371
537233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5373 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5374 delivery.
5375
537634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5377
537835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5379
538036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5381 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5382 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5383 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5384 another IP address.
5385
5386
5387Exim version 4.34
5388-----------------
5389
5390 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5391 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5392
5393 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5394 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5395 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5396 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5397 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5398
5399 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5400 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5401
5402 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5403 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5404 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5405
5406 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5407 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5408 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5409
5410 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5411 for routers.
5412
5413 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5414 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5415 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5416 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5417 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5418 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5419 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5420
5421
5422Exim version 4.33
5423-----------------
5424
5425 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5426 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5427 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5428 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5429 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5430 default (and expected) setting.
5431
5432 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5433 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5434 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5435 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5436
5437 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5438 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5439
5440 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5441 in domain lists.
5442
5443 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5444 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5445 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5446 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5447 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5448 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5449
5450 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5451 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5452 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5453
5454 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5455 part (NOT match_host).
5456
5457 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5458
5459 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5460 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5461 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5462 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5463 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5464 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5465 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5466 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5467 the same named file.
5468
546910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5470 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5471 when Exim is built.
5472
547311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5474 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5475 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5476 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5477 a host name.
5478
547912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5480 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5481 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5482
548313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5484
548514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5486
548715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5488
548916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5490 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5491
549217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5493 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5494 before starting the TLS session.
5495
549618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5497
549819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5499 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5500
550120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5502 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5503 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5504 colon in the middle).
5505
5506
5507Exim version 4.32
5508-----------------
5509
5510 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5511 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5512 multiple configurations are in use.
5513
5514 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5515 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5516 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5517 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5518 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5519 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5520
5521 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5522 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5523
5524 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5525 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5526 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5527
5528 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5529 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5530 occurs.
5531
5532 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5533 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5534
5535 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5536
5537 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5538 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5539
5540 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5541
5542 -prval:sval
5543
5544 is equivalent to
5545
5546 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5547
5548 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5549 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5550 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5551 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5552 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5553
555410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5555 Exim's behaviour:
5556
5557 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5558 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5559 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5560 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5561 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5562 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5563
5564 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5565 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5566 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5567 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5568 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5569 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5570 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5571 string.
5572
5573 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5574 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5575 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5576 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5577 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5578
557911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5580
558112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5582 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5583 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5584
558513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5586
558714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5588 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5589 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5590 information.
5591
559215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5593 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5594
559516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5596 Three changes have been made:
5597
5598 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5599 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5600 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5601 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5602 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5603
5604 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5605 been restored.
5606
5607 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5608 the modified behaviour.
5609
5610
5611Exim version 4.31
5612-----------------
5613
5614 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5615 Larry Rosenman.
5616
5617 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5618 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5619
5620 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5621 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5622 try to track down a specific problem.
5623
5624 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5625 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5626 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5627
5628 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5629 warning.
5630
5631 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5632 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5633 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5634 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5635 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5636 some earlier ones do not.
5637
5638 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5639
5640 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5641 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5642 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5643 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5644 address literals are enabled, of course).
5645
5646 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5647
564810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5649 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5650 by a command such as
5651
5652 exim -f "" ...
5653
5654 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5655
565611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5657
565812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5659 remained set. It is now erased.
5660
566113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5662 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5663
566414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5665 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5666 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5667 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5668 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5669 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5670 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5671 appropriate error code.
5672
567315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5674 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5675 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5676 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5677 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5678 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5679
568016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5681 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5682 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5683
568417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5685 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5686 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5687 terminate the header.
5688
568918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5690 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5691 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5692
569319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5694 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5695 (4.30/29). In particular:
5696
5697 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5698 imposed.
5699
5700 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5701 to write a maildirsize file.
5702
5703 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5704 the transport, the new value overrides.
5705
5706 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5707 count.
5708
570920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5710 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5711 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5712 space or a tab.
5713
571421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5715 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5716 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5717 the fallback hosts.
5718
571922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5720 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5721 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5722
572323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5724 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5725 using a union.
5726
572724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5728 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5729 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5730
573125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5732
573326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5734
573527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5736
573728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5738 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5739 become corrupted.
5740
574129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5742 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5743 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5744 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5745 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5746 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5747 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5748 too great.
5749
575030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5751 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5752 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5753 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5754 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5755 incorrectly.
5756
575731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5758 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5759 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5760 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5761 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5762 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5763 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5764 cached value only when the same options are set.
5765
576632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5767
576833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5769 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5770 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5771 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5772 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5773
577434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5775 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5776 it is clearly obsolete.
5777
577835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5779 transport.
5780
578136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5782 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5783 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5784 times.
5785
578637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5787 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5788 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5789 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5790 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5791
579238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5793 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5794 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5795 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5796
579739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5798
5799 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5800
5801 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5802 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5803 2^31.
5804
580540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5806 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5807 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5808 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5809 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5810 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5811 $localpart_data.
5812
581341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5814 with the -f command-line option.
5815
581642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5817 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5818 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5819 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5820 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5821 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5822
582343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5824 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5825 line.
5826
582744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5828 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5829 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5830 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5831 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5832 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5833 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5834 buffer is too small.
5835
583645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5837 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5838
583946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5840 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5841 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5842 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5843 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5844 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5845 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5846 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5847 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5848
584947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5850 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5851 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5852
585348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5854 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5855 ACL").
5856
585749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5858 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5859 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5860 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5861 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5862
586350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5864 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5865 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5866 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5867 is set.
5868
586951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5870
587152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5872
587353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5874 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5875
587654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5877 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5878 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5879
588055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5881 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5882 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5883 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5884 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5885
588656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5887 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5888 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5889 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5890 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5891 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5892 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5893
589457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5895 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5896 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5897 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5898 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5899 the test of how many are available.
5900
590158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5902 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5903 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5904 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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5905 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5906 new message is started.
5907
590859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5909 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5910
591160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5912 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5913
591461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5915 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5916 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5917 is no long logged.
5918
591962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5920 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5921 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5922 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5923 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5924 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5925 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5926
592763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5928 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5929 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5930 interpreted as octal.
5931
593264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5933 setting.
5934
593565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5936 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5937 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5938 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5939 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5940 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5941
594266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5943 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5944 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5945 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5946
5947 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5948 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5949 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5950 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5951
5952 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5953 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5954 is a bug fix.
5955
5956 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5957 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5958
595967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5960
596168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5962 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5963 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5964 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5965
596669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5967 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5968 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5969 supplied", which is not helpful.
5970
597170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5972 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5973 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5974
597571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5976 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5977 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5978 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5979 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5980 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5981 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5982 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5983
598472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5985 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5986 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5987 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5988 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5989
599073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5991 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5992 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5993 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5994 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5995 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5996
599774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5998 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5999 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6000
600175. Added write_rejectlog option.
6002
600376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6004 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6005 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6006 variables.
6007
600877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6009
601078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6011 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6012 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6013 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6014 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6015 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6016 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6017 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6018
601979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6020 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6021 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6022 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6023 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6024
602580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6026 Haardt.
6027
602881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6029 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6030 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6031 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6032 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6033 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6034 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6035 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6036 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6037
6038
6039Exim version 4.30
6040-----------------
6041
6042 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6043 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6044 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6045
6046 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6047 fixed.
6048
6049 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6050 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6051 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6052
6053 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6054 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6055 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6056 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6057 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6058 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6060 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6061 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6062 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6063 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6064 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6065 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6066 the Exim test suite.
6067
6068 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6069 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6070 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6071 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6072
6073 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6074 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6075 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6076 specify it in this variable.
6077
6078 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6079 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6080 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6081 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6082
6083 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6084 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6085 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6086 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6087
6088 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6089 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6090 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6091 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6092 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6093
6094 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6095
609610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6097 they are logged.
6098
609911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6100 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6101 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6102 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6103 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6104
610512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6106 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6107
610813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6109 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6110 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6111 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6112 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6113
611414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6115 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6116
611715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6118 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6119 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6120
612116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6122 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6123
612417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6125 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6126
612718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6128 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6129 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6130
613119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6132 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6133
613420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6135 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6136 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6137 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6138
613921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6140
614122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6142 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6143 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6144 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6145
614623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6147
614824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6149 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6150
615125. Added .include_if_exists.
6152
615326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6154 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6155 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6156 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6157 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6158 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6159
616027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6161
616228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6163 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6164 this.
6165
616629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6167
616830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6169 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6170
6171 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6172 550 Sender verify failed
6173
6174 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6175 the final line of the response.
6176
617731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6178 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6179 all other user lookups.
6180
618132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6182 delivery time.
6183
618433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6185 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6186 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6187 result into an int without checking.
6188
618934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6190 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6191 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6192
619335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6194 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6195 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6196 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6197
619836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6199 correctly.
6200
620137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6202 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6203
620438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6205 to the empty sender.
6206
620739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6208 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6209 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6210 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6211 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6212 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6213 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6214 panic log.
6215
621640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6217 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6218 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6219 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6220 used.
6221
622241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6223 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6224
622542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6226 timestamps.
6227
622843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6229 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6230
623144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6232
623345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6234 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6235 logs.
6236
623746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6238 as soon as it is encountered.
6239
624047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6241
624248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6243 rewritten to "<>".
6244
624549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6246 recognizes a tab character.
6247
624850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6249 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6250 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6251 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6252
625351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6254
625552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6256 crash.
6257
625853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6259
626054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6261
626255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6263 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6264 2822.
6265
626656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6267 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6268 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6269 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6270 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6271
627257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6273 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6274
627558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6276 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6277 list (.included file names were always shown).
6278
627959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6280 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6281 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6282 root at that time.
6283
628460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6285 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6286
628761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6288
628962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6290
629163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6292
629364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6294 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6295 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6296 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6297 failures to open the logs.
6298
629965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6300 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6301 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6302 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6303 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6304 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6305 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6306
6307
6308Exim version 4.24
6309-----------------
6310
6311 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6312 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6313 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6314 change 4.23/1.
6315
6316 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6317 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6318 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6319
6320 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6321 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6322 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6323
6324 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6325 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6326 causing some misleading effects.
6327
6328 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6329 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6330 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6331
6332 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6333 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6334 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6335 queue-runner function directly.
6336
6337
6338Exim version 4.23
6339-----------------
6340
6341 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6342 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6343
6344 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6345 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6346 was always written to the default place.
6347
6348 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6349 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6350 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6351
6352 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6353
6354 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6355
6356 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6357 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6358 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6359
6360 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6361 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6362 must start.
6363
6364 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6365 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6366 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6367
6368 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6369 command line option is disabled.
6370
6371 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6372 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6373
6374 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6375
6376 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6377
6378 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6379 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6380
638110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6382
638311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6384 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6385 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6386 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6387 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6388 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6389
639012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6391 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6392 timeout.
6393
639413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6395 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6396
639714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6398 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6399
640015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6401 received was valid base64.
6402
640316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6404 name of the variable that was being set.
6405
640617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6407
640818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6409 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6410 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6411 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6412 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6413 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6414
641519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6416
641720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6418 nor realm was specified.
6419
642021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6421 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6422 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6423 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6424
642522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6426 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6427 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6428
642923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6430 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6431 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6432
643324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6434 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6435 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6436 some systems use these upper case variants.
6437
643825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6439 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6440 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6441 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6442
644326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6444
644527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6446 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6447
644828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6449 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6450 expansion variable.
6451
645229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6453
645430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6455 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6456 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6457 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6458
645931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6460 using it.
6461
646232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6463 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6464 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6465
646633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6467 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6468
646934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6470 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6471 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6472 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6473
647435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6475 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6476 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6477
647836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6479
648037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6481 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6482 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6483 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6484 aborted.
6485
648638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6487 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6488 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6489
649039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6491
649240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6493 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6494
649541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6496 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6497
649842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6499 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6500 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6501 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6502 when emails are that large.
6503
6504
6505
6506Exim version 4.22
6507-----------------
6508
6509 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6510 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6511
6512 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6513 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6514 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6515
6516 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6517 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6518 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6519
6520 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6521 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6522 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6523 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6524 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6525
6526 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6527 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6528 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6529 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6530 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6531 ever.
6532
6533 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6534 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6535 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6536 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6537 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6538 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6539 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6540 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6541 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6542 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6543 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6544 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6545 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6546 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6547
6548 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6549 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6550 parameterised it.
6551
6552 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6553 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6554 error should be diagnosed.
6555
6556 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6557 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6558 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6559 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6560 appeared instead of "NULL".
6561
656210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6563 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6564 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6565 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6566 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6567 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6568 proceeds).
6569
6570 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6571 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6572 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6573
6574
6575Exim version 4.21
6576-----------------
6577
6578 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6579 or receiver verification errors.
6580
6581 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6582 name.
6583
6584 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6585 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6586 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6587 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6588
6589 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6590 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6591 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6592 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6593 shouldn't happen again.
6594
6595 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6596 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6597 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6598
6599 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6600 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6601
6602 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6603
6604 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6605 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6606
6607 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6608 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6609 RFC.
6610
661110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6612 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6613 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6614
661511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6616 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6617 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6618 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6619
662012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6621 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6622 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6623 to define what should happen).
6624
662513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6626 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6627 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6628
662914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6630
663115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6632
663316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6634 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6635
4c04137d 663617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6637 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6638 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6639 structure in all cases.
6640
6641 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6642 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6643 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6644 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6645
664618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6647 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6648 domain name.
6649
665019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6651 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6652
665320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6654 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6655
665621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6657 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6658 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6659
666022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6661 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6662 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6663
666423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6665 the book and for uniformity.
6666
666724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6668
666925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6670 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6671 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6672 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6673 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6674 non-existent command as the problem.
6675
667626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6677 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6678 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6679
668027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6681
668228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6683 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6684 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6685
668629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6687 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6688 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6689 timestamps using strftime().
6690
669130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6692 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6693
669432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6695 transport-time rewrites.
6696
669733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6698 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6699 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6700 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6701
670234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6703 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6704
670535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6706 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6707 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6708 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6709 comma and a space.
6710
671136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6712 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6713 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6714 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6715 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6716 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6717 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6718
671937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6720 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6721 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6722 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6723 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6724
672538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6726 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6727 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6728 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6729 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6730 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6731 remaining text gets split now.
6732
673339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6734 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6735 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6736 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6737
673840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6739 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6740 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6741 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6742 $return_path.
6743
674441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6745 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6746 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6747 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6748 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6749 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6750 passed through if needed.
6751
675242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6753 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6754 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6755 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6756 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6757 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6758
675943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6760 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6761 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6762 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6763 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6764
676544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6766 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6767 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6768 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6769 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6770
677145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6772 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6773 noticed.
6774
677546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6776 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6777 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6778 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6779 mayhem of various kinds.
6780
678147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6782 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6783 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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6784 the right test for positive values.
6785
678648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6787 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6788 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6789 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6790 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6791 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6792 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6793 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6794 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6795 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6796 envelope.
6797
679849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6799 module.
6800
680150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6802 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6803 forbidding it.
6804
680551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6806 the existing equality matching.
6807
680852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6809 dealing with inode numbers.
6810
681153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6812 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6813 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6814
681554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6816 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6817 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6818 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6819 local_scan().
6820
682155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6822 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6823 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6824 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6825 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6826 relay addresses has also been removed.
6827
682856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6829
683057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6831 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6832 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6833
683458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6835 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6836 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6837 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6838 processing applies to CR:
6839
6840 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6841 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6842
6843 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6844 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6845 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6846 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6847
684859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6849 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6850 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6851
685260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6853 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6854 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6855 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6856 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6857 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6858 arisen.
6859
686061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6861 program routers.
6862
686362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6864 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6865 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6866 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6867 adds:
6868
6869 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6870
6871 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6872
6873 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6874
687563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6876 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6877 not considered personal.
6878
687964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6880
688165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6882
688366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6884
688567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6886 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6887 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6888 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6889 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6890 header lines, and spool format errors.
6891
689268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6893 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6894 for more flexibility.
6895
689669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6897 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6898 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6899
690070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6901 Sabourenkov.
6902
690371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6904 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6905 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6906 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6907 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6908 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6909 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6910 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6911 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6912
691372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6914 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6915 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6916 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6917 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6918 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6919 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6920
692173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6922 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6923 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6924
692574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6926 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6927 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6928 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6929 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6930 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6931 instead of killing the process with assert().
6932
693375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6934 than Unicode encoding.
6935
693676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6937 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6938 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6939 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6940
694177. Added process_log_path.
6942
694378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6944 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6945
694679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6947 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6948
694980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6950 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6951 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6952
695381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6954 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6955 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6956 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6957 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6958 were applied:
6959
6960 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6961 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6962 as invalid.
6963
696482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6965 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6966 they will be used during message reception.
6967
6968
6969Exim version 4.20
6970-----------------
6971
6972The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6973
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