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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
8 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
9 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
10
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11NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
12
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13NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
14 improved.
15
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16NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
17
c1e794ba 18PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 19
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20PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
21
22PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
23 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
24
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25PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
26 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
27
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28PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
29 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
30
f1e05cc7 31PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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32 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
33 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 34
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35PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
36
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37PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
38 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
39
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40PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
41
c45dd180 42PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 43
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44PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
45 non-compliant senders.
46 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
47
eae0036b 48NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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49 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
50 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
51
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52PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
53 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
54 in spool file corruption.
55
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56PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
57 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
58 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
59 "Got SSL error 2".
60
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61TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
62 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
63 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
64
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65JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
66 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
67
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68JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
69
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70PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
71 diagnostics.
72 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
73
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74PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
75 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
76 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
77
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78PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
79 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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80 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
81 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 82
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83PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
84 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
85
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86PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
87 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
88 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
89 resolver implementation change.
90
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91PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
92 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
93
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94PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
95
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96PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
97
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98PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
99 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
100
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101PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
102 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
103
9e45c72b 104JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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105 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
106
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107PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
108 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
109 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
110 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 111 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 112
53947857 113PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 114
eae0036b 115PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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116 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
117 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 118
9e45c72b 119JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 120
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121PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
122 read-only, out of scope).
123 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
124
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125PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
126 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
127 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
128 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
129
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130PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
131
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132PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
133 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
134 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
135 real issues in debug logging.
136
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138Exim version 4.77
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140
141PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
142 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
143
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144TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
145
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146TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
147 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 148
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149TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
150 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
151
921b12ca
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152TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
153 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
154 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
155
156 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
157 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
158 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
159 not safe for signals.
160
161 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
162 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
163 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
164 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
165 exiwhat.
166
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167TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
168
169 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
170 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
171 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
172 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
173 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
174
175 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
176 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
177 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
178 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
179 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
180 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
181
182 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
183 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
184 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
185 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
186
187 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
188 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
189 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
190 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
191
192 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
193 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
194 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
195 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
196 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
197 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
198 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
199 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
200 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
201
202 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
203 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
204 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
205 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
206
207 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
208 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
209 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
210 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
211 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
212 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
213 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
214 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
215 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
216 details in the main documentation.
217
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218TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
219
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220TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
221
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222TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
223 repository when doing development or release builds.
224
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225PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
226 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 227
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228PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
229 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
230 Bugzilla 97.
231
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232PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
233
9e949f00 234PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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235 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
236
237PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
238 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 239
555ae6af 240PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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241 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
242
243PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
244 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 245
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246PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
247 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
248
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249PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
250 Bugzilla 1156.
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251 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
252 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 253
d6cc7c78 254PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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255 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
256 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
257
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258PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
259
3399bb60 260PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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261
262PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
263 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
264
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266Exim version 4.76
267-----------------
268
269PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
270
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271PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
272 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
273
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274PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
275
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276PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
277
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278PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
279 Bugzilla 1098.
280
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281PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
282 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 283
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284TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
285 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
286
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287PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
288 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
289
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290PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
291 Bugzilla 1104.
292
c8d52a00 293TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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294 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
295
296TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
297 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
298 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
299 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
300
301PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
302 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
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305Exim version 4.75
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307
4c9ef03a 308NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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309 Bugzilla 1073
310
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311TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
312 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
313 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
314
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315TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
316 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
317
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318PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
319 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
320 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
321
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322PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
323 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
324
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325PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
326 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
327
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328NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
329 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
330
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331NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
332 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
333
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334PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
335 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 336
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337NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
338 Fixes bug 943.
339
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340PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
341 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
342
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343PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
344 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
345
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346PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
347 SQL string expansion failure details.
348 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
349
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350PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
351 Patch from Simon Arlott.
352
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353PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
354 extern declarations in function scope.
355 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
356
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357PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
358 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
359 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
360 a kernel bug).
361
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362PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
363 Patch from Mark Zealey.
364
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365PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
366 Patch from Mark Zealey.
367
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368PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
369 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
370
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371PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
372 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
373
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374NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
375 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
376 Dennis Davis.
377
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378PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
379
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380PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
381
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382NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
383 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 384
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385TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
386 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
387
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389Exim version 4.74
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391
392TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
393 consequences so log it to the panic log.
394
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395TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
396 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
397
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398TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
399
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400DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
401 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
402 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
403
404PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
405 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
406 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
407
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408PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
409 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
410 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
411 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
412
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413PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
414 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
415 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
416 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
417
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418PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
419 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
420 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
421 arbitrary files.
422
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423PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
424 (Wolfgang Breyha)
425
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426PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
427 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
428 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
429 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
430 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
431
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435
436PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
437 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
438 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
439
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440PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
441 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
442
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443JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
444
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445PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
446
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447PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
448
ec5a0394 449PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 450
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451PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
452
453a6645 453PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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454 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
455 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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456 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
457
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458PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
459 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
460 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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461 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
462 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 463
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464PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
465
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466PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
467
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468PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
469
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470PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
471
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472PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
473
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474PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
475
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476PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
477
6a8de854 478PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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479 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
480 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 481
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482JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
483
484JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
485 "exim" to be used
55c75993 486
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487PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
488 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
489
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490PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
491 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
492 Notification from John Horne.
493
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494PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
495 compatible.
496
497PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
498 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
499 it normally works.
500
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501DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
502 access.
503
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504DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
505 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
506 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
507
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508DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
509 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
510 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
511 configuration file.
512
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513DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
514 option (effectively making it always true).
515
261dc43e
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516DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
517 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
518
fa32850b
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519DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
520 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
521
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522PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
523 run-time user, instead of root.
524
43236f35 525PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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526 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
527
fb08281f
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528DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
529 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
530 arguments.
3346ab01 531
74935b98
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532DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
533 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
534 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
535
90b6341f
DW
536DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
537
57730b52
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538NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
539
66581d1e 540
465e92cf
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541Exim version 4.72
542-----------------
543
453a6645
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544JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
545 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
546 typos
465e92cf 547
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548JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
549 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
550 (Finput)
edae0343 551
9bd3e22c
NM
552NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
553 Patch from Alain Williams
554
bb576ff7
NM
555NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
556
5a1a5845
NM
557NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
558 Patch from Andreas Metzler
559
981a9fad
NM
560NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
561 Patch from Kirill Miazine
562
7fc497ee
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563NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
564
1a41defa
JJ
565JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
566
a466095c 567NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 568 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 569
94a6bd0b
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570TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
571
572TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
573
574MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
575 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
576 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
577
c1b141a8
NM
578NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
579 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 580
b26eacf1 581NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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582 Patch by Simon Arlott
583
179c5980 584PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 585 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 586
9bd3e22c 587
7c6d71af
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588Exim version 4.71
589-----------------
590
7d9f747b 591TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 592
f013fb92
NM
593NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
594
0eb8eedd
NM
595NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
596
663ee6d9
NM
597NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
598
177ebd9b
NM
599NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
600
7c6d71af 601
210f147e
NM
602Exim version 4.70
603-----------------
604
cdd3bb85 605TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 606 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
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607
608TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
609 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 610 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
611
612TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
613 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 614 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
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615
616TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
617 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
618
210f147e
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619NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
620 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
621 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
622 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
623
deafd5b3
NM
624NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
625 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 626 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 627
089793a4
TF
628TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
629
5f16ca82
TF
630TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
631
dae9d94e 632NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 633 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 634
7d9f747b 635NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 636
06864c44
TF
637TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
638 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
639 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
640 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
641
65a7d8c3 642NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 643 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 644
23510047 645TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 646
7d9f747b 647NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 648
7d8eec3a 649NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 650 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 651
89dec7b6
TF
652TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
653 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 654
a99de90c
TF
655TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
656 that they are available at delivery time.
657
e2803e40
TF
658TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
659
7199e1ee
TF
660TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
661 incoming_port log selectors.
662
e276e04b
TF
663TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
664 setting expands to an empty string.
665
ce552449 666NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 667 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 668
e765a0f1 669NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 670 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 671
4f054c63 672NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 673 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 674
7d9f747b
PP
675NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
676 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 677
7d9f747b
PP
678NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
679 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 680
b52bc06e 681NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 682 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 683
447de4b0
NM
684NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
685
4c69d561 686NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 687 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 688
d5c39246 689NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 690 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 691
0b23848a
TK
692TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
693
8f3414a1 694NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 695 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 696
fb6f955d
NM
697NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
698
699NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 700
7d9f747b
PP
701NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
702 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 703
7d9f747b
PP
704NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
705 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 706
7d9f747b
PP
707NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
708 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 709
7d9f747b
PP
710NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
711 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 712
7d9f747b
PP
713NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
714 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 715
7d9f747b
PP
716NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
717 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 718
7d9f747b
PP
719NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
720 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 721
7d9f747b 722NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 723 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 724
7d9f747b 725NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 726
7d9f747b
PP
727NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
728 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 729
7d9f747b 730NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 731
7d9f747b 732NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 733
7d9f747b 734NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 735
7d9f747b 736NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 737
17792b53 738NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 739 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 740
7d9f747b
PP
741NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
742 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 743
7d9f747b
PP
744NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
745 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 746
7d9f747b
PP
747NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
748 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 749
7d9f747b 750NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 751
7d9f747b 752NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 753
7d9f747b 754NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 755
7d9f747b 756NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 757
deafd5b3 758
47db1125
NM
759Exim version 4.69
760-----------------
761
4b3504d0
TK
762TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
763 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
764 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
765
766 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
767 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
768 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
769 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
770 build errors in sieve.c.
771
81ea09ca
NM
772NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
773 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
774 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
775
f13cddcb
SC
776SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
777
7d9f747b 778NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 779
7d9f747b 780NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 781
7d9f747b 782NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
783
784
eb4c0de6
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785Exim version 4.68
786-----------------
787
788PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
789
6a3bceb1
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790PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
791 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
792 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
793 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
794 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
795 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
796 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
797 for iplsearch lookups.
798
799 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
800 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
801 previously such lookups could never work.
802
803 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
804 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
805 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
806
2e30fa9d
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807TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
808 version.
809
0806a9c5
MH
810MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
811 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
812 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
813 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
814 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
815 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
816
ae276964
TK
817TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
818 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
819
0f2cbd1b
MH
820MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
821 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
822 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
823 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
824 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
825 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
826
2b85bce7
PH
827PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
828 local_scan API.
829
93655c46
PH
830PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
831
6c512171
PH
832PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
833 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
834 encrypted.
835
836PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
837 by clients under certain conditions.
838
aa6dc513
PH
839PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
840 "_responses" off the end of the name.
841
a96603a0
PH
842PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
843
8f240103
PH
844PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
845 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
846
847PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
848
d677b2f2
PH
849PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
850
d52120f2
PH
851PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
852
64f2600a
PH
853PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
854 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
855
8669f003
PH
856PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
857
a4dc33a8
PH
858PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
859 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
860
d6a60c0f
PH
861PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
862
8f128379
PH
863PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
864
8932dffe
PH
865PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
866 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
867 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
868 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 869
ddea74fa 870PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
871 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
872 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
873
ddea74fa 874PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
875 and InterBase are left for another time.)
876
ddea74fa
PH
877PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
878
ce9f225c
PH
879PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
880
19897d52
PH
881PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
882
bc64a74d
PH
883PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
884 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
885 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
886
eb4c0de6 887
b4ed4da0
PH
888Exim version 4.67
889-----------------
890
22ad45c9
MH
891MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
892 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
893 Jan Srzednicki.
894
b4ed4da0
PH
895PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
896 issue a MAIL command.
897
431b7361
PH
898PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
899
900 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
901
902 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
903 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
904 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
905 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
906 item. This has been fixed.
907
908PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
909 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
910
83da1223
PH
911PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
912 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
913
54fc8428
PH
914PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
915 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
916 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
917
34c5e8dd
SC
918SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
919
bbe15da8
PH
920PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
921 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
922 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
923 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
924 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
925
0e8a9471
MH
926MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
927 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
928 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
929
f0872424
PH
930PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
931 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
932 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
933 the server_setid option was incorrect.
934
b01dd148
PH
935PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
936
6bf342e1
PH
937PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
938
273f34d0
PH
939PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
940 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
941 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
942 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
943 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
944
cf8b11a5
PH
945PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
946
41c7c167
PH
947PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
948 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
949 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
950 values).
951
9c57cbc0
PH
952PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
953
f3f065bb
PH
954PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
955
047bdd8c
PH
956PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
957
0ce9abe6
PH
958PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
959
0e22dfd1
PH
960PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
961
4c590bd1
PH
962PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
963 no_callout_flush is set.
964
09945f1e
PH
965PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
966 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
967 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
968 fixed.
969
c51b8e75
PH
970PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
971
e28326d8
PH
972PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
973 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
974 other ACL rejections are.
975
75b1493f
PH
976PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
977 with slight modification.
978
7c5214ec
PH
979PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
980 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
981
4311097e
PH
982PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
983 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
984 connection.
985
29f89cad
PH
986PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
987 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
988
5e687460
SC
989SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
990
c3611384
PH
991PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
992 expansion side effects.
993
5a11a7b4
PH
994PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
995 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
996 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
997 be the same.
998
0e20aff9
MH
999MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1000 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1001 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1002
ca86f471
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1003PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1004 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1005 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1006 were accidentally chopped off.
1007
a14e5636
PH
1008PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1009 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1010 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1011 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1012 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1013 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1014 pipelining has not been advertised.
1015
ec95d1a6
PH
1016PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1017
42855d71
PH
1018PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1019 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1020 This has been fixed.
1021
57c2c631
PH
1022PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1023 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1024 reported on Solaris.
1025
58c01c94
PH
1026PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1027 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1028 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1029 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1030 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1031 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1032 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1033
dee5a20a
PH
1034PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1035 cpus.
1036
d2ee6114
PH
1037PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1038
b2d5182b
PH
1039PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1040
79749a79
PH
1041PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1042 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1043 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1044 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1045 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1046 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1047
c456d9bb
PH
1048PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1049 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1050 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1051 host_all_ignored option.
1052
cd9868ec
PH
1053PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1054 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1055 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1056 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1057 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1058 is what is supposed to happen).
1059
ebeaf996
PH
1060PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1061 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1062 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1063 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1064 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1065 uses the Exim user.
1066
2679d413
PH
1067PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1068 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1069 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1070 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1071 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1072 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1073 users.
1074
84024b72
PH
1075PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1076
8005d38e
SC
1077SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1078 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1079 (Jez Hancock).
1080 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1081 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1082
3298c6c6
SC
1083SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1084
a43a27c5
PH
1085PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1086
58eb016e 1087PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1088 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1089 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1090 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1091 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1092 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1093 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1094 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1095 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1096 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1097 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1098
b43a74ea
PH
1099PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1100 advertised in response to EHLO.
1101
b4ed4da0 1102
5dd1517f
PH
1103Exim version 4.66
1104-----------------
1105
1106PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1107 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1108
1109 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1110 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1111
1112 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1113 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1114 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1115
1116 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1117 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1118 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1119 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1120 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1121
1122
93cfa765
TK
1123Exim version 4.65
1124-----------------
1125
1126TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1127 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1128 versions. (#438)
1129
d6066548
MH
1130MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1131 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1132 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1133
4362ff0d
PH
1134PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1135 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1136 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1137 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1138 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1139 rather than extend the field.
1140
93cfa765 1141
944e9e9c
TF
1142Exim version 4.64
1143-----------------
aa41d2de 1144
21d74bd9
TK
1145TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1146 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1147 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1148 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1149 these files.
1150
1151TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1152 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1153 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1154
1155TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1156 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1157 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1158
1159TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1160 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1161 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1162 in the field name.
1163
2b1c6e3a
PH
1164PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1165 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1166 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1167 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1168 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1169 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1170 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1171 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1172 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1173 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1174 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1175
1f872c80
PH
1176PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1177 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1178
1179PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1180 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1181 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1182 ignores EPIPE as well.
1183
d203e649
PH
1184PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1185 (quoted-printable decoding).
1186
cc2ed8f7 1187PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1188 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1189
ddfcd446
PH
1190PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1191
d45b1de8
PH
1192PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1193
1194PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1195
38a0a95f 1196PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1197 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1198
a2405d83
JJ
1199JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1200 in 4.64-PH/09.
1201
1202JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1203 miscellaneous code fixes
1204
6ea85e9a
PH
1205PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1206 rejections.
1207
26da7e20
PH
1208PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1209 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1210 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1211 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1212 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1213 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1214 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1215 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1216
14aa5a05 1217PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1218 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1219 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1220 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1221 function.
1222 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1223 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1224 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1225 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1226 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1227 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1228 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1229 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1230 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1231
ff75a1f7
PH
1232PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1233 decoding.
1234
e6f6568e
PH
1235PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1236 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1237 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1238 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1239 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1240 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1241 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1242 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1243
d6f6e0dc
PH
1244PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1245 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1246 list.
1247
322050c2
PH
1248PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1249 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1250 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1251 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1252 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1253 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1254 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1255 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1256 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1257 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1258 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1259 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1260 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1261
08955dd3
PH
1262PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1263 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1264 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1265 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1266 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1267 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1268 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1269
1eccaa59
PH
1270PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1271 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1272 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1273 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1274 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1275 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1276 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1277 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1278 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1279 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1280
602e59e5
PH
1281PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1282 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1283 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1284 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1285 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1286
411ef850
PH
1287PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1288 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1289 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1290 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1291 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1292 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1293 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1294
7befa435
PH
1295PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1296 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1297 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1298 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1299 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1300 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1301 been verified.
1302
48da4259 1303PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1304 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1305 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1306 and authorization.)
1307
48da4259
PH
1308PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1309 if any retry times were supplied.
1310
d1d5595c
PH
1311PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1312 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1313 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1314
0ef732d9
PH
1315PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1316
328895cc
PH
1317PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1318
fd700877
PH
1319PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1320 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1321 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1322 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1323 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1324 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1325
8dce1a6f
PH
1326PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1327 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1328
17af4a17
PH
1329PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1330 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1331 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1332
1333PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1334 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1335 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1336 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1337 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1338 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1339 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1340 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1341 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1342
1343 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1344 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1345 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1346 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1347 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1348 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1349 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1350 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1351 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1352
1353 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1354 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1355 hammering the server.
1356
c1114884
PH
1357PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1358 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1359
7a0743eb
PH
1360PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1361
0d85fa3f
PH
1362PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1363 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1364 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1365
1bf43b78
PH
1366PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1367 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1368 one case where this was not true.
1369
520de300
PH
1370PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1371 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1372 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1373 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1374 fails.
1375
48c7f9e2
PH
1376PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1377 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1378 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1379 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1380 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1381 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1382 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1383 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1384 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1385 smtp transport.
1386
99ea1c86
PH
1387PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1388 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1389 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1390 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1391
a2042e78
PH
1392PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1393 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1394
4fbcfc2e
PH
1395PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1396 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1397 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1398
aa41d2de
PH
1399PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1400
af561417
PH
1401PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1402
3cc66b45
PH
1403PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1404
194cc0e4
PH
1405PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1406 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1407 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1408 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1409
a401ddaa
PH
1410PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1411 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1412
4e88a19f
PH
1413PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1414 be meaningful with "accept".
1415
d7d7b289
SC
1416SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1417 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1418
1419SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1420 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1421 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1422
1423SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1424 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1425 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1426 there is data to show.
1427 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1428
1429SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1430 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1431 as well as the number of messages.
1432
1433SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1434 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1435 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1436
1437SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1438 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1439 have a flag are now skipped.
1440
1441SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1442 Added the -emptyok flag.
1443
1444SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1445 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1446
0ea2a468
JJ
1447JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1448 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1449 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1450
1451JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1452 match 4.64-PH/13
1453
1454JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1455 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1456
1457JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1458
1459JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1460 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1461
8a10f5a4
PH
1462PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1463
30e18802
PH
1464PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1465 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1466 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1467 contravention of the specifications.
1468
55728a4f
PH
1469PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1470 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1471 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1472
d7837193
PH
1473PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1474 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1475 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1476
87054a31
PH
1477PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1478
ea2c01d2
MH
1479MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1480 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1481 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1482 some point in the past.
1483
e4fa6968
PH
1484PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1485 transport during callout processing was broken.
1486
56f5d9bd
PH
1487PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1488 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1489
922e1c28
PH
1490PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1491 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1492
21eb6e72
PH
1493PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1494 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1495
a0540757
PH
1496PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1497
944e9e9c 1498
478be7b0
SC
1499Exim version 4.63
1500-----------------
1501
1502SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1503 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1504
1505SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1506 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1507 there is data to show.
1508 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1509
1510SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1511 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1512
2b965a65
TF
1513TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1514 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1515
45b91596
PH
1516TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1517 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1518
c59f5781
TF
1519TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1520 submissions from trusted users.
1521
90fc3069
TF
1522TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1523 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1524
6083aca0
TF
1525TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1526 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1527 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1528 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1529 there is now a framework to start from.
1530
765b530f
PH
1531PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1532 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1533 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1534
4e167a8c
PH
1535PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1536
4608d683
PH
1537PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1538
b8dc3e4a
PH
1539PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1540
5418e93b
PH
1541PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1542 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1543 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1544
b4a9bda2
PH
1545PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1546 libradius.
1547
45b91596
PH
1548PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1549 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1550 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1551
5547e2c5
PH
1552PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1553 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1554 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1555 its arguments.
1556
dbcef0ea
PH
1557PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1558 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1559 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1560 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1561 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1562
25257489
PH
1563PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1564 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1565
c816d124
PH
1566PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1567
a9ccd69a
PH
1568PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1569 operations in malware.c.
1570
75fa1910
PH
1571PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1572 signatures.
1573
a7d7aa58
PH
1574PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1575 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1576 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1577 all.
1578
42119b09
PH
1579PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1580 statements to "add_header".
1581
41609df5
PH
1582PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1583 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1584
a5bd321b
PH
1585PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1586 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1587 latter.
1588
e85a7ad5 1589PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1590 so that it is now:
1591
e85a7ad5
PH
1592 ${if or { \
1593 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1594 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1595 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1596 }{no}{yes}}
1597
e85a7ad5
PH
1598 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1599 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1600
d8fe1c03
PH
1601PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1602 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1603
16282d2b
PH
1604PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1605 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1606 any possible encoding problems.
1607
35d40a98
PH
1608PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1609 but not after initializing Perl.
1610
034d99ab
PH
1611PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1612 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1613 apparently, which is not desirable.
1614
6ec97b1b
PH
1615PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1616 queries.
1617
e22ca4ac
JJ
1618JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1619 --not options
1620
1621JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1622
33d73e3b
PH
1623PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1624 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1625 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1626 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1627
9ecb03f3
PH
1628PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1629 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1630 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1631
084efe8d
PH
1632PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1633 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1634 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1635 0.12.
1636
366fc9f0
PH
1637PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1638 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1639 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1640 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1641 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1642
c59f5781 1643
c887c79e
TF
1644Exim version 4.62
1645-----------------
1646
1647TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1648 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1649
1cce3af8
PH
1650PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1651 patch).
1652
afb3eaaf
PH
1653PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1654 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1655 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1656 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1657 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1658 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1659 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1660 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1661 451 error is used.
1662
e173618b
PH
1663PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1664
dd16e114
PH
1665PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1666 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1667 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1668
f7fd3850
PH
1669PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1670 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1671 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1672 odd errors.
1673
d87df92c
PH
1674PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1675 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1676
7e9f683d
PH
1677PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1678 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1679 option (which defaults to 0600).
1680
bfad5236
PH
1681PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1682
01c490df
PH
1683PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1684 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1685 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1686 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1687 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1688 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1689 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1690
d6629cdc
PH
1691PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1692
1cce3af8 1693
214e2000
PH
1694Exim version 4.61
1695-----------------
1696
1697PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1698 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1699 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1700 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1701 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1702 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1703 addresses as local.
1704
f9daeae0
PH
1705PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1706 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1707
7e66e54d
PH
1708PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1709
c8ea1597
PH
1710PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1711 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1712 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1713 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1714 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1715 grumble.
1716
911f6fde
PH
1717PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1718 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1719
47ca6d6c
PH
1720PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1721 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1722 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1723 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1724 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1725
ed0e9820
PH
1726PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1727 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1728 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1729 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1730
eff37e47
PH
1731PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1732 be the same on different OS.
1733
1921d2ea
PH
1734PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1735 testing.
1736
b3f69ca8
JJ
1737JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1738 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1739
1740JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1741 in 4.61-PH/06
1742
424a1c63
PH
1743PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1744 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1745 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1746 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1747 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1748 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1749 bounce message.
1750
7a100415
PH
1751PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1752 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1753 when Exim was called.
1754
19b9dc85
PH
1755PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1756 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1757
309bd837
PH
1758PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1759 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1760 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1761 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1762
59e82a2a
PH
1763PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1764 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1765 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1766 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1767 changes:
1768
1769 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1770 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1771 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1772
1773 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1774 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1775 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1776
9edc04ce
PH
1777PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1778 feature).
1779
1349e1e5
PH
1780PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1781 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1782 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1783 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1784 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1785 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1786 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1787 values from the SRV records were lost.
1788
ea49d0e1
PH
1789PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1790 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1791 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1792
064a94c9
PH
1793PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1794 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1795 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1796
727071f8
PH
1797PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1798 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1799 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1800 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1801 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1802 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1803 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1804 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1805 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1806 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1807
f78eb7c6
PH
1808PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1809 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1810 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1811
21c28500
PH
1812PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1813 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1814
1815PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1816 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1817 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1818 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1819 is given.
1820
1688f43b
PH
1821PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1822 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1823 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1824
1825PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1826 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1827 PH/23 above applies.
1828
9675b384
PH
1829PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1830 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1831 (for which there is an explicit test).
1832
6a3f1455
PH
1833PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1834
dac79d3e
PH
1835PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1836 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1837 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1838 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1839 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1840
5977a0b3
PH
1841PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1842 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1843 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1844 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1845
c91535f3
PH
1846PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1847 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1848 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1849
0d46a8c8
PH
1850PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1851
278c6e6c
PH
1852PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1853
2cbb4081
PH
1854PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1855 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1856 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1857
3eef829e
PH
1858PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1859 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1860 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1861 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1862 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1863
1ab95fa6
PH
1864PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1865 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1866 the message gets confusing).
1867
230205fc
PH
1868PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1869 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1870 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1871 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1872
75e0e026
PH
1873PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1874 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1875 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1876 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1877 same order.
1878
1879PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1880 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1881 the different processes.
1882
145396a6
PH
1883PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1884
3cd34f13
PH
1885PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1886
11121d3d
JJ
1887JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1888 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1889
1890JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1891 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1892
1893JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1894 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1895 messages matching specified criteria.
1896
8def5aaf
PH
1897PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1898
929ba01c
PH
1899PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1900 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1901
2632889e
PH
1902PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1903 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1904 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1905 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1906 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1907 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1908 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1909 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1910 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1911 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1912
944a9c55
PH
1913PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1914 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1915 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1916
4a23603b
PH
1917PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1918
4730f942
PH
1919PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1920 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1921 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1922 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1923 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1924 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1925 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1926 the variable.
1927
30dba1e6
PH
1928PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1929 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1930
382afc6b
PH
1931PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1932
a86229cf
PH
1933PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1934
50c99ba6
PH
1935PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1936
d35e429d
PH
1937PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1938 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1939 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1940 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1941 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1942 size of the count of files.
1943
f90d018c
PH
1944PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1945
75def545
PH
1946PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1947 used in LMTP mode:
1948
1949 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1950 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1951 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1952 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1953
1954 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1955 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1956 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1957
1958PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1959 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1960 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1961 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1962 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1963
c46782ef
PH
1964PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1965 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1966
71fafd95
PH
1967PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1968 will now be deprecated.
1969
2c5db4fd
PH
1970PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1971
9cf6b11a
JJ
1972JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1973 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1974 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1975
1976JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1977 with very large, slow to parse queues
1978
1979JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1980
1981JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1982
898d150f
PH
1983PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1984 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1985 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1986 SMTP output lines.
1987
46218253
PH
1988PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1989 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1990 Sieve code now uses this.
1991
e97957bc
PH
1992PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1993 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1994
81e509d7
PH
1995PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1996 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1997
3d240ff7
PH
1998PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1999
b37c4101
PH
2000PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2001 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2002 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2003 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2004 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2005
79378e0f
PH
2006PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2007 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2008 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2009 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2010
e49c7bb4
PH
2011PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2012
d114ec46
PH
2013PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2014
f3d7df6c
PH
2015PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2016 is preferred over IPv4.
2017
715ab376
PH
2018PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2019 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2020 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2021 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2022 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2023 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2024 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2025
6b31b150
PH
2026PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2027 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2028 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2029
2030PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2031
d515a917
PH
2032PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2033 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2034 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2035 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2036 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2037 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2038 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2039 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2040 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2041 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2042 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2043
9b8fadde
PH
2044PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2045 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2046 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2047
214e2000 2048
5de37277
PH
2049Exim version 4.60
2050-----------------
2051
cc38ddbf
PH
2052PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2053
2054 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2055 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2056
2057 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2058 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2059 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2060
72fdd6ae
PH
2061PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2062
2063 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2064 not a single digit.
2065
2066 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2067 string.
2068
2069 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2070 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2071 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2072 silly things.
2073
2074 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2075 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2076
2077 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2078 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2079
cb741023
PH
2080PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2081 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2082 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2083
f174f16e
PH
2084PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2085 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2086
c25242d7
PH
2087PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2088 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2089
2090 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2091
2092 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2093 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2094 this:
2095
2096 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2097
82c19f95
PH
2098PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2099 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2100 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2101 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2102 identical. For example:
2103
2104 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2105
2106 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2107 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2108 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2109
d7ffbc12
PH
2110PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2111 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2112 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2113 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2114
9f526266
PH
2115PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2116 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2117 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2118 message.
2119
87fcc8b9
PH
2120PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2121
2122 o fixes some comments
2123 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2124 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2125 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2126 and documents the missing references header update
2127
2128 and most important:
2129
2130 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2131 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2132 result)
2133
456682f5
PH
2134PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2135 Electronic Mail") by including:
2136
2137 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2138
2139 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2140 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2141 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2142 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2143 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2144
2145 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2146
2147 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2148
2149 The auto-replied keyword:
2150
2151 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2152 message by an automatic process,
2153
2154 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2155
2156 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2157 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2158
2159 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2160 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2161 other messages.
2162
3e46c1aa
PH
2163PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2164 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2165
49826d12
PH
2166PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2167
eba0c039
PH
2168PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2169 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2170 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2171
a0d6ba8a
PH
2172PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2173 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2174 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2175
f0917727
PH
2176PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2177 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2178 and treats the condition as false.
2179
096fee00
PH
2180PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2181
024bd3c2
PH
2182PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2183 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2184 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2185 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2186 not changing the active code.
2187
2188 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2189 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2190
2191 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2192 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2193
df199fec
PH
2194PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2195 (Bugzilla #53).
2196
d27f1df3
PH
2197PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2198 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2199 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2200 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2201 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2202 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2203 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2204 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2205 the text comparison.
2206
96776534
PH
2207PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2208 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2209 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2210 The same fix has been applied.
2211
5de37277 2212
9a799bc0
PH
2213Exim version 4.54
2214-----------------
2215
2216PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2217 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2218 It now does.
2219
99a4b039
PH
2220PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2221 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2222
2223PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2224
4b233853
PH
2225PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2226 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2227 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2228 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2229 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2230
8857ccfd
PH
2231TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2232 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2233 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2234 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2235 or /domain=).
2236
433a2980
PH
2237PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2238 testing suite.
2239
3e46c1aa 2240
9a799bc0 2241
e3a311ba
TK
2242Exim version 4.53
2243-----------------
2244
2245TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2246 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2247
13b685f9
PH
2248PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2249
395ff96d
PH
2250PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2251
5b68f6e4
PH
2252PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2253 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2254 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2255
1ab52c69
PH
2256PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2257 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2258 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2259
b07e6aa3
PH
2260PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2261 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2262 operating systems.
2263
254e032f
PH
2264PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2265 ${stat: expansion item.
2266
3af76a81
PH
2267PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2268 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2269
2548ba04
PH
2270PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2271 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2272 file for comments.
2273
b6c6011d
PH
2274PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2275
cf39cf57
PH
2276PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2277 setting.
2278
f1513293
PH
2279PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2280 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2281
727549a4
PH
2282TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2283
af46795e
PH
2284PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2285 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2286 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2287 the end of the subprocess.
2288
d7b47fd0
PH
2289PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2290 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2291 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2292 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2293 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2294
ee744174
JJ
2295JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2296
b582ab87
PH
2297TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2298
41a13e0a
PH
2299PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2300 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2301
f625cc5a
PH
2302PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2303
2304PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2305
21f7af35
PH
2306PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2307 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2308 HP-UX compiler.
2309
31480e42
PH
2310PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2311
2d280592
PH
2312PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2313 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2314 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2315
7cd1141b
PH
2316PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2317 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2318
2319PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2320 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2321
750af86e
PH
2322PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2323 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2324
2325 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2326 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2327
2328 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2329 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2330 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2331 contributed by a Radius user.
2332
2333PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2334 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2335
4304270b
TK
2336TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2337 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2338
750af86e
PH
2339PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2340 available.
2341
64ffc24f
PH
2342PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2343 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2344 received.
2345
5dd9625b
PH
2346PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2347 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2348 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2349 header lines when this was not necessary.
2350
5591031b
PH
2351PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2352
ba18e66a
PH
2353PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2354 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2355 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2356 exists".
2357
9cec981f
PH
2358PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2359 -bV or -d is used.
2360
aa2b5c79
PH
2361PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2362 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2363 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2364 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2365
48a53b7f
PH
2366PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2367
1c59d63b
PH
2368PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2369
671012da
TK
2370TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2371
1509d3a8
PH
2372PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2373
2374PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2375 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2376 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2377 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2378 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2379 settings.
2380
2381PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2382
2fe1a124
PH
2383PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2384 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2385 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2386 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2387 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2388 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2389 which is clearly wrong.
2390
8800895a
PH
2391PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2392
ccfdb010
PH
2393PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2394 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2395 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2396 subsequently added.
2397
1130bfb0
PH
2398PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2399 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2400
ebcb507f
PH
2401PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2402
c35e155c
PH
2403PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2404 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2405
95d1f782
PH
2406PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2407 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2408
fd6de02e
PH
2409PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2410 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2411
58de37c5
PH
2412PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2413 recipients, not senders.
2414
261cf466
TF
2415TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2416 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2417
3ee512ff
PH
2418PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2419
e08c430f
PH
2420PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2421
bef5a11f
PH
2422PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2423 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2424 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2425 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2426
7546de58
TF
2427TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2428
e5d5a95f
TF
2429TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2430 clock is set back in time.
2431
2e88a017
TF
2432TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2433 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2434
a5f65aa4
TF
2435TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2436 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2437
e7726cbf
PH
2438PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2439 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2440 (see PH/47 above).
2441
a7fdad5b
TF
2442TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2443 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2444 header rewrites.
2445
6af56900
PH
2446PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2447 type ("H").
2448
0925ede6
PH
2449PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2450
66afa403
TF
2451TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2452 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2453 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2454
0154e85a
TF
2455TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2456 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2457 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2458 helo verification defer as a failure.
2459
16f12c76
PH
2460PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2461 actual error message.
2462
bbe902f0 2463
e5a9dba6
PH
2464Exim version 4.52
2465-----------------
2466
2467TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2468
22c3b60b
PH
2469PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2470 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2471 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2472 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2473
06a9b4b5
PH
2474TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2475
c1ac6996
PH
2476PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2477 can still be requested.
2478
9c7a242c
PH
2479PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2480 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2481 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2482 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2483
87ba3f5f
PH
2484TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2485 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2486 circumstances, but probably never did.
2487
2488PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2489 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2490 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2491 in the header line.
2492
29aba418
TF
2493TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2494
fe0dab11
TF
2495TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2496 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2497
11d337a4
TK
2498TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2499
2500TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2501
415c8f3b
PH
2502PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2503 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2504 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2505 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2506 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2507 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2508
958541e9
PH
2509PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2510 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2511 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2512 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2513 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2514 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2515
c206415f
TK
2516TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2517 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2518
2a4be8f9
PH
2519PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2520 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2521
1cba11c5
SC
2522SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2523 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2524
2525SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2526
2527SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2528
2529SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2530
2531SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2532
2533SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2534
2535SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2536
1005d00e
TK
2537TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2538
2539TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2540 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2541 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2542
2543TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2544 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2545 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2546 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2547
9b4768fa
PH
2548PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2549 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2550 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2551
2552PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2553 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2554 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2555 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2556
0d7eb84a
PH
2557PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2558 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2559 to be made).
2560
2561PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2562 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2563 should work with maildirs and everything.
2564
40727bee
TK
2565TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2566 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2567
554d2369
TF
2568TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2569 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2570
1f922db1
PH
2571PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2572 function for BDB 4.3.
2573
ef213c3b
PH
2574PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2575
8ac170f3
PH
2576PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2577 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2578 involved.
2579
b1c749bb
PH
2580PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2581 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2582 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2583 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2584 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2585 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2586
4aac9b49
PH
2587PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2588 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2589 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2590 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2591 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2592 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2593 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2594 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2595
294520c8
TK
2596TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2597 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2598 details.
2599
5bd022fe
PH
2600PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2601 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2602
90e9ce59
PH
2603PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2604 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2605 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2606 test. It is now used for both.
2607
5ea81592
PH
2608PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2609 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2610 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2611 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2612 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2613 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2614
c6c2dc1d
PH
2615PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2616 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2617 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2618 string_vformat().
2619
fffffe4c
PH
2620PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2621 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2622 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2623
9a26b6b2
PH
2624PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2625 experimental DomainKeys support:
2626
2627 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2628 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2629 the control was given.
2630
2631 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2632
4aee0225
PH
2633PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2634
32d668a5
PH
2635PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2636
8187c3f3
PH
2637PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2638 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2639 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2640 db.h files).
2641
ff790e47 2642PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2643 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2644 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2645 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2646 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2647 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2648 course.
ff790e47 2649
5417f6d1
PH
2650PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2651 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2652 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2653 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2654 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2655 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2656
59cf8544
PH
2657PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2658 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2659 do -d+all out of habit.
2660
e7ad8a65
PH
2661PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2662 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2663 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2664
ade42478
PH
2665PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2666 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2667 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2668 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2669 record types that Exim uses.
2670
182ad5cf
PH
2671PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2672 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2673 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2674 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2675 non-existent file that was broken.
2676
b0d9fc80
TK
2677TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2678 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2679
2680TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2681 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2682 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2683
2684TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2685
47c7a64a
PH
2686PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2687 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2688 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2689 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2690 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2691 same time.
2692
a388bce4
SC
2693SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2694 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2695 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2696 at a slight CPU cost.
2697
2698SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2699 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2700
2701SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2702 by Marc Sherman.
2703
0793e4ed
SC
2704SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2705
c58b88df
PH
2706PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2707 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2708
e7ad8a65 2709
7982096b
PH
2710Exim version 4.51
2711-----------------
2712
1a46a8c5
PH
2713TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2714 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2715
2f079f46 2716TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2717
2718TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2719
2720PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2721 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2722
2723PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2724 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2725 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2726 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2727 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2728 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2729 file.
2730
2731PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2732 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2733 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2734 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2735 these two options.
2736
2737PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2738 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2739 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2740 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2741 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2742 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2743 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2744 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2745
2746PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2747 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2748
2749PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2750 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2751 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2752 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2753 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2754 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2755
2756PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2757 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2758 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2759 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2760
2761PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2762 Finch).
2763
2764PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2765 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2766
49c2d5ea
PH
2767PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2768 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2769 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2770 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2771 message.
49c2d5ea 2772
bf759a8b
PH
2773PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2774
83364d30
PH
2775PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2776 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2777
7999bbd7
PH
2778PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2779 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2780 to what was transported.)
2781
7dbf77c9
PH
2782TF/01 Added $received_time.
2783
74e0617f
PH
2784PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2785 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2786 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2787 spamd_address settings.
2788
2f079f46
PH
2789PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2790 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2791 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2792 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2793 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2794
8c841523
PH
2795PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2796
7766a4f0
PH
2797PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2798 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2799 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2800 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2801 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2802
8b417f2c
PH
2803PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2804 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2805
901f42cb
PH
2806PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2807 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2808 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2809 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2810 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2811 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2812 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2813 for failure.
2814
f9b9210e
PH
2815PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2816 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2817 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2818 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2819 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2820 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2821 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2822 "input=".
2823
54cdb463
PH
2824PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2825
cf00dad6
PH
2826PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2827 driver and ACL definitions.
2828
acb1b346
PH
2829PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2830 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2831
c5ddb310
PH
2832PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2833 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2834 understands it better than I do:
2835
2836 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2837 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2838
2839 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2840 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2841 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2842 => three warnings about OTP not working
2843 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2844
2845 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2846 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2847 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2848 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2849 for each call.)
2850 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2851 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2852
2853 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2854 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2855 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2856
31619da6
PH
2857PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2858 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2859 specified.
2860
bebaf0fc
PH
2861PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2862 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2863 "Linux".
2864
475fe28a
PH
2865PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2866 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2867 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2868
2869 warn !verify = sender
2870 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2871
2872 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2873 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2874
7e8bec7a
PH
2875PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2876
2877 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2878 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2879
2880 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2881 nomenclature these days.)
2882
e4a89c47
PH
2883PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2884 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2885
5ca2a9a1
PH
2886PH/30 In these circumstances:
2887 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2888 . First host does not offer TLS;
2889 . First host accepts first address;
2890 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2891 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2892 . Second host accepts second address.
2893 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2894 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2895 address.
7e8bec7a 2896
c688b954
PH
2897PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2898 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2899 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2900 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2901 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2902
fed77020
PH
2903PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2904 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2905
7fe1560f
PH
2906PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2907 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2908
ebb6e6d5
PH
2909PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2910 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2911 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2912
9c4e8f60
PH
2913PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2914 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2915 overlooked.
2916
2917PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2918
d7174846
PH
2919PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2920 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2921 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2922 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2923 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2924 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2925 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2926
2927 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2928 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2929 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2930 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2931 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2932
2933 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2934 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2935 routed further.
2936
cfe75fc3
PH
2937PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2938 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2939 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2940 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2941 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2942 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2943
be22d70e
PH
2944PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2945
0612b098
PH
2946PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2947 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2948 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2949 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2950 printable escape sequences.
2951
2e0c1448
PH
2952PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2953 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2954 body only.
2955
447d236c
PH
2956PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2957 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2958 are as follows:
2959
2960 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2961 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2962 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2963 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2964 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2965
2966 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2967 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2968 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2969
d20976dc
PH
2970PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2971
f656d135
PH
2972PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2973 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2974 play with."
2975
2e2a30b4
PH
2976PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2977 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2978 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2979 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2980 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2981 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2982 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2983 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2984 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2985 the log output.
2986
9176e9f0
PH
2987PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2988 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2989 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2990 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2991 "make".
2992
7982096b 2993
bbe902f0
PH
2994A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2995----------------------------------------
2996
2997Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2998changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2999needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3000in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3001that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3002release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3003from 4.43.
3004
3005I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
30064.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3007those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3008historical information.
3009
3010
f7b63901 3011Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3012-----------------
3013
5fe762f6
PH
3014 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3015
139059f6 3016 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3017 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3018
7086e875
PH
3019 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3020 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3021 place.
3022
35af9f61
PH
3023 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3024 filter fails to execute.
3025
b668c215
PH
3026 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3027 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3028 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3029 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3030 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3031
a494b1e1
PH
3032 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3033
3034 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3035 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3036 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3037 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3038
c5fcb476
PH
3039 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3040 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3041 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3042 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3043 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3044
69358f02
PH
3045 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3046
5be20824
PH
304710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3048
eb2c0248
PH
304911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3050 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3051 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3052 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3053
2a3eea10
PH
305412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3055 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3056 sender verification.
3057
305813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3059 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3060
23c7ff99
PH
306114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3062
4deaf07d
PH
306315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3064 connection timeout.
3065
926e1192
PH
306616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3067 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3068
650edc6f
PH
306917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3070 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3071
2c7db3f5
PH
307218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3073 information about exactly what failed.
3074
3d235903
PH
307519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3076
7c7ad977
PH
307720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3078 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3079 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3080
981756db
PH
308121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3082 It is now set to "smtps".
3083
d4eb88df
PH
308422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3085 ignore_target_hosts.
3086
308723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3088 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3089 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3090 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3091 "[x.x.x.x]".
3092
7d468ab8
PH
309324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3094 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3095 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3096
309725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3098 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3099 wake it up if nothing else does.
3100
62c0818f
PH
310126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3102 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3103 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3104 end up negative.
3105
26034054
PH
310627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3107 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3108
af66f652
PH
310928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3110
90af77f4
PH
311129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3112 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3113 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3114 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3115 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3116 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3117 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3118 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3119
d8ef3577
PH
312030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3121 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3122 than one IP address.
3123
5cb8cbc6
PH
312431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3125 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3126 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3127 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3128
14702f5b
PH
312932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3130 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3131 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3132 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3133 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3134 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3135
063b1e99
PH
313633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3137 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3138 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3139 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3140
652e1b65
PH
314134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3142 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3143 respected.
3144
6f0c9a4f
PH
314535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3146 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3147 $sender_host_address.
3148
33397d19
PH
314936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3150 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3151 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3152 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3153 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3154 very small.
3155
7bb56e1f
PH
315637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3157
3158 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3159 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3160
ea3bc19b
PH
3161 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3162 just the host names, not the priorities.
3163
3164 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3165 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3166 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3167
ea3bc19b 3168 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3169 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3170
0bcb2a0e
PH
317138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3172 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3173 domain.
3174
2ac0e484
PH
317539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3176
4e1fde53
PH
317740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3178 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3179
de365ded
PH
318041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3181 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3182 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3183
f05da2e8
PH
318442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3185
d6453af2
PH
318643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3187
f7b63901
PH
318844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3189
319045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3191 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3192 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3193 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3194 because the tests only now provoked it.
3195
a444213a
PH
319646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3197 (this can affect the format of dates).
3198
0ec020ea
PH
319947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3200 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3201 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3202 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3203
b1206957
PH
320448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3205
320649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3207 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3208 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3209 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3210
26dd5a95
PH
321150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3212 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3213 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3214
343b2385
PH
321551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3216 autoreply.
3217
1c5466b9
PH
321852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3219 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3220 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3221 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3222 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3223 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3224 is going on).
3225
55ee9ee3
PH
322653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3227 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3228 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3229 the line.
3230
d38f8232
PH
323154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3232 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3233 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3234
3235 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3236 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3237 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3238 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3239 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3240 so I produce this patch..."
3241
3295e65b
PH
3242 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3243 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3244 is not defined.
3245
7102e136
PH
324655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3247 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3248 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3249 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3250 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3251
3ca0ba97
PH
325256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3253
c2bcbe20
PH
325457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3255 long debug lines gets shown.
3256
18ce445d
PH
325758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3258 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3259
1f5b4c3d
PH
326059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3261
3262 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3263 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3264 of $primary_hostname.
3265
b975ba52
PH
326660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3267 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3268 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3269 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3270 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3271 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3272 by change 4.50/55 above.
3273
3274 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3275 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3276 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3277 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3278 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3279 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3280 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3281
328261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3283 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3284 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3285 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3286
17ffcae7
PH
328762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3288 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3289
d95f9fdb
PH
329063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3291 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3292 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3293 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3294 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3295
86b8287f
PH
329664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3297 This has been fixed.
3298
60dc5e56
PH
329965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3300 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3301 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3302 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3303 the caching.)
3304
533244af
PH
330566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3306
a5a28604
PH
330767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3308 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3309 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3310 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3311
7e634d24
PH
331268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3313 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3314
3e11c26b
PH
331569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3316 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3317 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3318
6729cf78
PH
331970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3320 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3321 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3322 message there.
3323
00f00ca5
PH
332471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3325 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3326 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3327
c9bdd01c
PH
332872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3329 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3330 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3331 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3332
d43194df
PH
333373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3334 during host lookups.
3335
fe5b5d0b
PH
333674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3337 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3338
3339 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3340
76a2d7ba
PH
334175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3342 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3343 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3344 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3345 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3346 background.
3347
334876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3349 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3350
04f7d5b9
PH
335177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3352 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3353 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3354
bc60667e
PH
335578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3356
bb6e88ff
PH
335779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3358 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3359 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3360 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3361 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3362 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3363 process earlier.
3364
1e70f85b
PH
336580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3366 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3367 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3368 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3369 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3370
337181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3372 tables).
3373
4e01f9d6
PH
337482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3375
1ee1cef2
PH
337683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3377 "vacation" handling.
3378
6e2b4ccc
PH
337984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3380 OS variants using glibc.
3381
8e669ac1
PH
338285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3383
495ae4b0 3384
bbe902f0
PH
3385----------------------------------------------------
3386See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3387----------------------------------------------------
3388
3389
3390Exim version 4.44
3391-----------------
3392
3393 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3394 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3395 transport
3396
3397 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3398 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3399 place.
3400
3401 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3402 filter fails to execute.
3403
3404 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3405 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3406 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3407 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3408 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3409
3410 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3411 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3412 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3413 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3414
3415 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3416 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3417 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3418 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3419 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3420
3421 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3422
3423 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3424 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3425 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3426 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3427
3428 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3429 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3430 sender verification.
3431
343210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3433 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3434
343511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3436 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3437
343812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3439 ignore_target_hosts.
3440
344113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3442 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3443 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3444 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3445 "[x.x.x.x]".
3446
344714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3448 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3449 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3450
345115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3452 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3453 wake it up if nothing else does.
3454
345516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3456 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3457 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3458 end up negative.
3459
346017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3461 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3462
ea3a6f44 346318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3464
346519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3466 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3467 empty pattern.
3468
346920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3470 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3471 one IP address.
3472
ea3a6f44
NM
347321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3474 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3475 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3476 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3477 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3478 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3479
ea3a6f44
NM
348022. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3481 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3482 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3483
348423. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3485 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3486 $sender_host_address.
3487
348824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3489
ea3a6f44
NM
349025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3491 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3492 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3493
349426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3495 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3496
ea3a6f44
NM
349727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3498 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3499
ea3a6f44
NM
350028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3501 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3502 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3503 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3504
350529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3506 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3507 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3508
ea3a6f44
NM
350930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3510 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3511 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3512 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3513
ea3a6f44
NM
351431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3515 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3516 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3517
ea3a6f44
NM
351831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3519 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3520
ea3a6f44
NM
352132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3522 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3523 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3524 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3525 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3526 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3527 is going on).
bbe902f0 3528
ea3a6f44
NM
352933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3530 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3531 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3532 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3533 CAN-2005-0021
3534
ea3a6f44
NM
353534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3536 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3537 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3538 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3539 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3540 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3541 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3542
3543 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3544 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3545 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3546 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3547 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3548 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3549 CAN-2005-0021
3550
ea3a6f44
NM
355135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3552 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3553 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3554 CAN-2005-0022
3555
ea3a6f44
NM
355636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3557 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3558 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3559 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3560 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3561
ea3a6f44
NM
356237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3563 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3564 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3565 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3566 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3567
ea3a6f44
NM
356838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3569 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3570 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3571 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3572 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3573
3574
495ae4b0
PH
3575Exim version 4.43
3576-----------------
3577
3578 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3579 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3580 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3581 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3582 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3583 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3584 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3585
3586 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3587 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3588 the delivery.
3589
3590 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3591
3592 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3593
3594 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3595 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3596 to local_scan().
3597
3598 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3599 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3600 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3601 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3602 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3603
3604 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3605 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3606
3607 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3608
3609 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3610
361110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3612 header_sender only.
3613
361411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3615 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3616
361712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3618 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3619 affecting debugging statements).
3620
362113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3622
362314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3624 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3625 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3626 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3627 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3628 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3629 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3630 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3631 after the received time, and all would be well.
3632
363315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3634 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3635 condition in an expansion string.
3636
363716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3638
363917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3640 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3641 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3642 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3643 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3644 job under whatever limits there are.
3645
364618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3647
364819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3649 space).
3650
365120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3652 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3653 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3654 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3655 return path is set.
3656
365721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3658 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3659 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3660 binary data in such strings.
3661
366222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3663
366423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3665 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3666 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3667 failure, which is pointless.
3668
366924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3670
367125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3672
367326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3674 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3675 Sender: header lines.
3676
367727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3678 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3679 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3680
368128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3682 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3683 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3684 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3685 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3686 happens.
3687
368829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3689 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3690 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3691 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3692 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3693
369430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3695 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3696 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3697 1024.
3698
369931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3700 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3701
370232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3703 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3704
370533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3706
370732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3708
370933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3710
371134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3712 syntax error.
3713
371435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3715
371636. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3717
371837. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3719 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3720 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3721 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3722
372338. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3724 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3725
3726
3727Exim version 4.42
3728-----------------
3729
3730 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3731 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3732 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3733 it was not quoted.
3734 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3735 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3736 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3737 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3738 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3739 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3740
3741 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3742 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3743 verification failure".
3744
3745 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3746 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3747 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3748 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3749
3750 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3751 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3752 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3753 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3754 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3755 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3756 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3757 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3758 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3759 treated as a timeout.
3760
3761 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3762 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3763 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3764 not set for Exim filters).
3765
3766 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3767 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3768 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3769
3770 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3771
3772 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3773 try to make them clearer.
3774
3775 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3776 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3777
3778 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3779
3780 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3781
378210. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3783 only the Cygwin environment.
3784
378511. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3786 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3787 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3788 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3789 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3790
379112. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3792 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3793 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3794 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3795 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3796 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3797 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3798
379913. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3800 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3801
380214. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3803
3804 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3805 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3806 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3807
3808 To: susanne@some.where
3809
3810 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3811 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3812 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3813 of addresses in From: header lines).
3814
3815 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3816 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3817 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3818
3819 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3820 treated as non-personal.
3821
3822 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3823 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3824
382515. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3826
382716. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3828
382917. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3830 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3831 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3832
383318. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3834 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3835
383619. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3837 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3838 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3839 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3840 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3841 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3842
384320. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3844 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3845 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3846 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3847 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3848 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3849 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3850 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3851
3852 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3853
385421. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3855 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3856
385722. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3858 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3859 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3860
386123. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3862 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3863
386424. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3865 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3866 rather than long int.
3867
386825. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3869
387026. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3871
3872
3873Exim version 4.41
3874-----------------
3875
3876 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3877 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3878 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3879 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3880 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3881 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3882
3883
3884Exim version 4.40
3885-----------------
3886
3887 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3888 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3889
3890 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3891 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3892 socklen_t is defined.
3893
3894 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3895 always exist.
3896
3897 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3898 configured.
3899
3900 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3901 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3902 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3903 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3904 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3905
3906 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3907 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3908 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3909 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3910
3911 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3912 of flapping under certain conditions.
3913
3914 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3915 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3916 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3917
3918 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3919
392010. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3921
392211. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3923 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3924 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3925 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3926
392712. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3928 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3929 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3930 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3931 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3932 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3933 preserved with the message after it was received.
3934
393513. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3936 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3937 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3938 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3939 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3940 test suite worked just fine.
3941
394214. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3943 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3944 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3945
394615. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3947 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3948 string.
3949
395016. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3951 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3952 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3953 does not fully solve it.
3954
395517. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3956 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3957 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3958 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3959 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3960
396118. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3962 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3963 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3964
396519. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3966 string, for example:
3967
3968 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3969
3970 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3971 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3972 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3973 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3974 the routers could not see them.
3975
397620. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3977 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3978
397921. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3980 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3981 output).
3982
398322. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3984 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3985 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3986 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3987 that needed quoting.
3988
398923. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3990 was not being matched caselessly.
3991
399224. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3993 backslashes.
3994
399525. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3996 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3997 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3998 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3999 when use_sender is false.
4000
400126. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4002
400327. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4004
400528. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4006
400729. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4008 the configuration file.
4009
401030. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4011 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4012
401331. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4014
401532. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4016 bytes in the message body.
4017
401833. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4019 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4020 delivery.
4021
402234. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4023
402435. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4025
402636. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4027 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4028 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4029 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4030 another IP address.
4031
4032
4033Exim version 4.34
4034-----------------
4035
4036 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4037 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4038
4039 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4040 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4041 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4042 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4043 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4044
4045 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4046 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4047
4048 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4049 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4050 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4051
4052 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4053 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4054 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4055
4056 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4057 for routers.
4058
4059 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4060 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4061 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4062 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4063 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4064 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4065 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4066
4067
4068Exim version 4.33
4069-----------------
4070
4071 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4072 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4073 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4074 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4075 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4076 default (and expected) setting.
4077
4078 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4079 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4080 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4081 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4082
4083 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4084 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4085
4086 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4087 in domain lists.
4088
4089 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4090 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4091 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4092 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4093 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4094 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4095
4096 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4097 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4098 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4099
4100 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4101 part (NOT match_host).
4102
4103 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4104
4105 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4106 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4107 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4108 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4109 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4110 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4111 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4112 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4113 the same named file.
4114
411510. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4116 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4117 when Exim is built.
4118
411911. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4120 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4121 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4122 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4123 a host name.
4124
412512. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4126 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4127 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4128
412913. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4130
413114. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4132
413315. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4134
413516. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4136 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4137
413817. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4139 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4140 before starting the TLS session.
4141
414218. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4143
414419. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4145 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4146
414720. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4148 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4149 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4150 colon in the middle).
4151
4152
4153Exim version 4.32
4154-----------------
4155
4156 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4157 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4158 multiple configurations are in use.
4159
4160 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4161 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4162 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4163 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4164 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4165 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4166
4167 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4168 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4169
4170 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4171 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4172 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4173
4174 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4175 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4176 occurs.
4177
4178 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4179 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4180
4181 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4182
4183 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4184 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4185
4186 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4187
4188 -prval:sval
4189
4190 is equivalent to
4191
4192 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4193
4194 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4195 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4196 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4197 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4198 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4199
420010. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4201 Exim's behaviour:
4202
4203 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4204 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4205 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4206 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4207 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4208 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4209
4210 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4211 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4212 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4213 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4214 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4215 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4216 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4217 string.
4218
4219 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4220 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4221 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4222 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4223 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4224
422511. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4226
422712. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4228 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4229 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4230
423113. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4232
423314. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4234 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4235 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4236 information.
4237
423815. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4239 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4240
424116. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4242 Three changes have been made:
4243
4244 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4245 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4246 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4247 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4248 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4249
4250 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4251 been restored.
4252
4253 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4254 the modified behaviour.
4255
4256
4257Exim version 4.31
4258-----------------
4259
4260 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4261 Larry Rosenman.
4262
4263 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4264 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4265
4266 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4267 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4268 try to track down a specific problem.
4269
4270 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4271 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4272 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4273
4274 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4275 warning.
4276
4277 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4278 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4279 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4280 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4281 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4282 some earlier ones do not.
4283
4284 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4285
4286 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4287 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4288 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4289 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4290 address literals are enabled, of course).
4291
4292 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4293
429410. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4295 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4296 by a command such as
4297
4298 exim -f "" ...
4299
4300 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4301
430211. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4303
430412. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4305 remained set. It is now erased.
4306
430713. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4308 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4309
431014. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4311 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4312 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4313 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4314 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4315 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4316 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4317 appropriate error code.
4318
431915. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4320 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4321 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4322 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4323 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4324 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4325
432616. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4327 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4328 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4329
433017. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4331 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4332 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4333 terminate the header.
4334
433518. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4336 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4337 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4338
433919. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4340 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4341 (4.30/29). In particular:
4342
4343 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4344 imposed.
4345
4346 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4347 to write a maildirsize file.
4348
4349 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4350 the transport, the new value overrides.
4351
4352 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4353 count.
4354
435520. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4356 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4357 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4358 space or a tab.
4359
436021. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4361 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4362 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4363 the fallback hosts.
4364
436522. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4366 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4367 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4368
436923. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4370 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4371 using a union.
4372
437324. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4374 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4375 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4376
437725. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4378
437926. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4380
438127. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4382
438328. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4384 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4385 become corrupted.
4386
438729. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4388 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4389 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4390 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4391 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4392 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4393 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4394 too great.
4395
439630. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4397 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4398 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4399 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4400 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4401 incorrectly.
4402
440331. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4404 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4405 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4406 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4407 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4408 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4409 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4410 cached value only when the same options are set.
4411
441232. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4413
441433. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4415 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4416 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4417 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4418 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4419
442034: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4421 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4422 it is clearly obsolete.
4423
442435. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4425 transport.
4426
442736. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4428 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4429 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4430 times.
4431
443237. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4433 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4434 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4435 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4436 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4437
443838. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4439 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4440 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4441 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4442
444339. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4444
4445 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4446
4447 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4448 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4449 2^31.
4450
445140. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4452 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4453 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4454 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4455 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4456 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4457 $localpart_data.
4458
445941. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4460 with the -f command-line option.
4461
446242. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4463 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4464 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4465 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4466 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4467 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4468
446943. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4470 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4471 line.
4472
447344. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4474 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4475 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4476 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4477 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4478 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4479 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4480 buffer is too small.
4481
448245. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4483 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4484
448546. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4486 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4487 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4488 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4489 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4490 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4491 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4492 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4493 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4494
449547. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4496 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4497 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4498
449948. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4500 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4501 ACL").
4502
450349. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4504 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4505 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4506 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4507 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4508
450950. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4510 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4511 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4512 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4513 is set.
4514
451551. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4516
451752. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4518
451953. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4520 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4521
452254. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4523 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4524 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4525
452655. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4527 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4528 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4529 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4530 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4531
453256. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4533 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4534 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4535 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4536 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4537 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4538 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4539
454057. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4541 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4542 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4543 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4544 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4545 the test of how many are available.
4546
454758. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4548 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4549 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4550 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4551 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4552 new message is started.
4553
455459. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4555 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4556
455760. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4558 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4559
456061. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4561 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4562 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4563 is no long logged.
4564
456562. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4566 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4567 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4568 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4569 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4570 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4571 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4572
457363. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4574 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4575 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4576 interpreted as octal.
4577
457864. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4579 setting.
4580
458165. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4582 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4583 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4584 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4585 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4586 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4587
458866. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4589 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4590 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4591 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4592
4593 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4594 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4595 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4596 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4597
4598 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4599 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4600 is a bug fix.
4601
4602 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4603 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4604
460567. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4606
460768. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4608 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4609 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4610 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4611
461269. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4613 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4614 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4615 supplied", which is not helpful.
4616
461770. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4618 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4619 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4620
462171. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4622 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4623 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4624 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4625 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4626 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4627 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4628 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4629
463072. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4631 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4632 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4633 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4634 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4635
463673. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4637 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4638 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4639 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4640 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4641 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4642
464374. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4644 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4645 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4646
464775. Added write_rejectlog option.
4648
464976. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4650 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4651 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4652 variables.
4653
465477. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4655
465678. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4657 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4658 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4659 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4660 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4661 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4662 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4663 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4664
466579. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4666 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4667 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4668 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4669 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4670
467180. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4672 Haardt.
4673
467481. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4675 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4676 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4677 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4678 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4679 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4680 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4681 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4682 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4683
4684
4685Exim version 4.30
4686-----------------
4687
4688 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4689 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4690 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4691
4692 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4693 fixed.
4694
4695 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4696 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4697 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4698
4699 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4700 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4701 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4702 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4703 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4704 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4705
4706 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4707 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4708 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4709 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4710 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4711 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4712 the Exim test suite.
4713
4714 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4715 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4716 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4717 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4718
4719 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4720 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4721 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4722 specify it in this variable.
4723
4724 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4725 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4726 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4727 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4728
4729 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4730 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4731 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4732 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4733
4734 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4735 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4736 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4737 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4738 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4739
4740 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4741
474210. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4743 they are logged.
4744
474511. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4746 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4747 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4748 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4749 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4750
475112. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4752 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4753
475413. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4755 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4756 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4757 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4758 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4759
476014. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4761 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4762
476315. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4764 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4765 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4766
476716. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4768 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4769
477017. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4771 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4772
477318. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4774 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4775 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4776
477719. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4778 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4779
478020. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4781 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4782 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4783 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4784
478521. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4786
478722. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4788 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4789 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4790 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4791
479223. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4793
479424. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4795 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4796
479725. Added .include_if_exists.
4798
479926. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4800 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4801 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4802 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4803 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4804 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4805
480627. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4807
480828. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4809 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4810 this.
4811
481229. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4813
481430. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4815 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4816
4817 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4818 550 Sender verify failed
4819
4820 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4821 the final line of the response.
4822
482331. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4824 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4825 all other user lookups.
4826
482732. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4828 delivery time.
4829
483033. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4831 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4832 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4833 result into an int without checking.
4834
483534. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4836 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4837 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4838
483935. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4840 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4841 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4842 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4843
484436. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4845 correctly.
4846
484737. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4848 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4849
485038. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4851 to the empty sender.
4852
485339. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4854 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4855 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4856 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4857 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4858 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4859 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4860 panic log.
4861
486240. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4863 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4864 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4865 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4866 used.
4867
486841. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4869 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4870
487142. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4872 timestamps.
4873
487443. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4875 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4876
487744. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4878
487945. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4880 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4881 logs.
4882
488346. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4884 as soon as it is encountered.
4885
488647. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4887
488848. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4889 rewritten to "<>".
4890
489149. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4892 recognizes a tab character.
4893
489450. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4895 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4896 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4897 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4898
489951. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4900
490152. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4902 crash.
4903
490453. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4905
490654. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4907
490855. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4909 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4910 2822.
4911
491256. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4913 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4914 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4915 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4916 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4917
491857. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4919 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4920
492158. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4922 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4923 list (.included file names were always shown).
4924
492559. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4926 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4927 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4928 root at that time.
4929
493060. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4931 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4932
493361. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4934
493562. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4936
493763. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4938
493964. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4940 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4941 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4942 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4943 failures to open the logs.
4944
494565. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4946 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4947 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4948 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4949 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4950 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4951 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4952
4953
4954Exim version 4.24
4955-----------------
4956
4957 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4958 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4959 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4960 change 4.23/1.
4961
4962 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4963 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4964 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4965
4966 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4967 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4968 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4969
4970 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4971 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4972 causing some misleading effects.
4973
4974 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4975 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4976 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4977
4978 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4979 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4980 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4981 queue-runner function directly.
4982
4983
4984Exim version 4.23
4985-----------------
4986
4987 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4988 HEADERS_CHARSET.
4989
4990 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4991 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4992 was always written to the default place.
4993
4994 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4995 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4996 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4997
4998 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
4999
5000 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5001
5002 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5003 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5004 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5005
5006 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5007 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5008 must start.
5009
5010 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5011 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5012 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5013
5014 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5015 command line option is disabled.
5016
5017 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5018 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5019
5020 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5021
5022 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5023
5024 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5025 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5026
502710. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5028
502911. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5030 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5031 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5032 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5033 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5034 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5035
503612. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5037 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5038 timeout.
5039
504013. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5041 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5042
504314. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5044 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5045
504615. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5047 received was valid base64.
5048
504916. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5050 name of the variable that was being set.
5051
505217. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5053
505418. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5055 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5056 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5057 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5058 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5059 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5060
506119. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5062
506320. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5064 nor realm was specified.
5065
506621. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5067 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5068 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5069 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5070
507122. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5072 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5073 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5074
507523. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5076 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5077 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5078
507924. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5080 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5081 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5082 some systems use these upper case variants.
5083
508425. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5085 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5086 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5087 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5088
508926. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5090
509127. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5092 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5093
509428. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5095 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5096 expansion variable.
5097
509829. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5099
510030. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5101 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5102 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5103 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5104
510531. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5106 using it.
5107
510832. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5109 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5110 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5111
511233. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5113 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5114
511534. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5116 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5117 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5118 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5119
512035. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5121 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5122 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5123
512436. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5125
512637. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5127 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5128 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5129 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5130 aborted.
5131
513238. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5133 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5134 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5135
513639. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5137
513840. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5139 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5140
514141. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5142 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5143
514442. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5145 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5146 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5147 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5148 when emails are that large.
5149
5150
5151
5152Exim version 4.22
5153-----------------
5154
5155 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5156 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5157
5158 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5159 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5160 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5161
5162 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5163 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5164 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5165
5166 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5167 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5168 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5169 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5170 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5171
5172 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5173 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5174 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5175 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5176 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5177 ever.
5178
5179 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5180 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5181 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5182 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5183 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5184 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5185 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5186 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5187 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5188 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5189 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5190 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5191 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5192 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5193
5194 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5195 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5196 parameterised it.
5197
5198 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5199 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5200 error should be diagnosed.
5201
5202 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5203 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5204 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5205 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5206 appeared instead of "NULL".
5207
520810. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5209 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5210 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5211 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5212 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5213 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5214 proceeds).
5215
5216 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5217 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5218 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5219
5220
5221Exim version 4.21
5222-----------------
5223
5224 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5225 or receiver verification errors.
5226
5227 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5228 name.
5229
5230 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5231 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5232 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5233 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5234
5235 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5236 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5237 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5238 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5239 shouldn't happen again.
5240
5241 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5242 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5243 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5244
5245 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5246 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5247
5248 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5249
5250 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5251 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5252
5253 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5254 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5255 RFC.
5256
525710. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5258 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5259 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5260
526111. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5262 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5263 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5264 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5265
526612. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5267 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5268 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5269 to define what should happen).
5270
527113. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5272 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5273 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5274
527514. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5276
527715. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5278
527916. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5280 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5281
528217. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5283 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5284 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5285 structure in all cases.
5286
5287 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5288 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5289 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5290 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5291
529218. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5293 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5294 domain name.
5295
529619. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5297 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5298
529920. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5300 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5301
530221. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5303 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5304 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5305
530622. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5307 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5308 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5309
531023. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5311 the book and for uniformity.
5312
531324. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5314
531525. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5316 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5317 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5318 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5319 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5320 non-existent command as the problem.
5321
532226. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5323 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5324 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5325
532627. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5327
532828. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5329 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5330 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5331
533229. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5333 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5334 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5335 timestamps using strftime().
5336
533730. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5338 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5339
534032. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5341 transport-time rewrites.
5342
534333. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5344 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5345 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5346 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5347
534834. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5349 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5350
535135. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5352 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5353 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5354 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5355 comma and a space.
5356
535736. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5358 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5359 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5360 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5361 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5362 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5363 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5364
536537. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5366 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5367 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5368 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5369 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5370
537138. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5372 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5373 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5374 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5375 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5376 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5377 remaining text gets split now.
5378
537939. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5380 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5381 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5382 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5383
538440. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5385 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5386 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5387 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5388 $return_path.
5389
539041. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5391 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5392 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5393 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5394 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5395 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5396 passed through if needed.
5397
539842. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5399 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5400 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5401 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5402 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5403 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5404
540543. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5406 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5407 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5408 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5409 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5410
541144. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5412 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5413 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5414 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5415 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5416
541745. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5418 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5419 noticed.
5420
542146. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5422 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5423 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5424 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5425 mayhem of various kinds.
5426
542747. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5428 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5429 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5430 the right test for positive values.
5431
543248. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5433 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5434 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5435 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5436 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5437 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5438 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5439 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5440 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5441 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5442 envelope.
5443
544449. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5445 module.
5446
544750. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5448 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5449 forbidding it.
5450
545151. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5452 the existing equality matching.
5453
545452. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5455 dealing with inode numbers.
5456
545753. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5458 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5459 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5460
546154. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5462 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5463 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5464 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5465 local_scan().
5466
546755. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5468 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5469 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5470 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5471 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5472 relay addresses has also been removed.
5473
547456. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5475
547657. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5477 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5478 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5479
548058. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5481 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5482 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5483 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5484 processing applies to CR:
5485
5486 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5487 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5488
5489 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5490 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5491 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5492 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5493
549459. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5495 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5496 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5497
549860. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5499 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5500 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5501 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5502 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5503 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5504 arisen.
5505
550661. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5507 program routers.
5508
550962. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5510 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5511 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5512 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5513 adds:
5514
5515 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5516
5517 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5518
5519 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5520
552163. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5522 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5523 not considered personal.
5524
552564. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5526
552765. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5528
552966. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5530
553167. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5532 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5533 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5534 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5535 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5536 header lines, and spool format errors.
5537
553868. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5539 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5540 for more flexibility.
5541
554269. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5543 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5544 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5545
554670. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5547 Sabourenkov.
5548
554971. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5550 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5551 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5552 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5553 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5554 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5555 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5556 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5557 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5558
555972. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5560 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5561 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5562 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5563 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5564 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5565 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5566
556773. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5568 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5569 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5570
557174. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5572 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5573 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5574 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5575 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5576 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5577 instead of killing the process with assert().
5578
557975. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5580 than Unicode encoding.
5581
558276. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5583 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5584 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5585 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5586
558777. Added process_log_path.
5588
558978. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5590 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5591
559279. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5593 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5594
559580. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5596 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5597 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5598
559981. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5600 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5601 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5602 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5603 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5604 were applied:
5605
5606 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5607 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5608 as invalid.
5609
561082. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5611 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5612 they will be used during message reception.
5613
5614
5615Exim version 4.20
5616-----------------
5617
5618The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5619
5620****