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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
8 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
9 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
10 client dropping the TLS connection.
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15JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
16 expanded.
17
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18JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
19
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20JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
21 it.
22
01a4a5c5 23JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 24 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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25 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
26 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
27
cb1d7830 28JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 29 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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30 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
31
610ff438 32JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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33 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
34 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
35 TLS connections
610ff438 36
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37JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
38 sites use this now.
39
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40JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
41 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
42 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
43 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
44 have a dsn_lasthop option.
45
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46JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
47 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 48 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 49
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50JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
51
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52JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
53 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
54
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55JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
56 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
57
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58JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
59 /defer_ok option.
60
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61JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
62 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
63
fd4d8871 64JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 65 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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66 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
67
68JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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69 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
70 specify a port-range.
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72JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
73 timeout value per server.
74
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75JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
76 now have the list separator specified.
77
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78JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
79 option values.
80
82c0c8ea 81JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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82 under OpenSSL.
83
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84JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
85
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86JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
87 rather than the verbs used.
88
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89JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
90 from 255 to 1024 chars.
91
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92JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
93
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94HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
95 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 96
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97JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
98 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
99
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100HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
101 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
102
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103JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
104
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105JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
106
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107JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
108 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
109 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
110 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
111
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112JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
113
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114JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
115 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
116
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117JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
118 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
119
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120JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
121
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122JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
123
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124JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
125
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126JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
127 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
128
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129JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
130 added for tls authenticator.
131
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135TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
136 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
137 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
138 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
139 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
140 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
141 the script parsing/test process like normal.
142
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143TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
144 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
145 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
146 function when detected.
147
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148JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
149 cause callback expansion.
150
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151TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
152 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
153 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
154 instead of bool when processing it.
155
0f06b4f2 156JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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157 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
158
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159JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
160
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161JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
162
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163TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
164
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165TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
166 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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168JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
169 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
170 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
171 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
172 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
173 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
174
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175JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
176 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
177 exceeded it.
178
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179JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
180 version 3.3.6 or later.
181
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182JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
183 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
184 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 185 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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186 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
187 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
188 option is defined.
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190TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
191 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
192
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193JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
194 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
195 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
196 matches.
197
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198JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
199 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
200 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
201
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202JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
203 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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204
205JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
206 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
207 syntax errors.
208
3394b36a 209JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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210
211JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
212 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
213
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214TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
215 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
216 tarball.
217
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218JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
219
220JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
221 Bug 1561.
222
223JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
224 output list separator was used.
225
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227Exim version 4.84
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229TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
230 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
231 return.
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233JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
234 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
235
236JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
237
238TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 239 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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245TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
246
247 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
248 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
249 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
250 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
251 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
252 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
253
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254TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
255 utilities have not been installed.
256
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257JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
258 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
259
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260TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
261 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
262
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263TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
264 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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265 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
266 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 267
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268JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
269
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270TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
271 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
272
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273PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
274 not dns_use_dnssec.
275
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276JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
277
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278TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
279 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
280 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
281
8ddef691 282TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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283 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
284 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
285 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
286 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 287 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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289JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
290
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291JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
292 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
293
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294JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
295 failed delivery.
296
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297JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
298
511a6c14 299JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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300
301JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
302 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 303
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304JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
305 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
306
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307TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
308
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309JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
310
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311JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
312 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
313
314 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
315 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
316 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
317
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318TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
319 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
320 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
321 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 322
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323JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
324
8c51eead 325JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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326 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
327 lookup).
8c51eead 328
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329TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
330 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
331 Schlichting.
35aba663 332
fd3b6a4a 333JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 334 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 335
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336TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
337 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
338
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339JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
340
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341TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
342 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
343 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
344
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345JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
346 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
347
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348JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
349 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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350 hosts_request_ocsp.
351
ed3bba5f 352JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 353 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 354 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 355
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356JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
357
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358TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
359 Christian Aistleitner.
360
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361JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
362
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363TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
364 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
365
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366JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
367 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
368
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369JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
370 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
371
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372TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
373 support and error reporting did not work properly.
374
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375TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
376 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
377
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378TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
379 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
380 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
381
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382JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
383
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384PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
385 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
386 Jasper Wallace.
387
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388JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
389
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390TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
391 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
392 CVE-2014-2972
393
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397
398PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
399
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400PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
401 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
402
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403PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
404 by GnuTLS.
405
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406PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
407 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
408 routines.
409
13363eba 410PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 411
66645890 412PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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413 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
414 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
415 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
416 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 417
a3fb9793 418PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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419 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
420 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
421 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 422 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 423 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 424
d27f98fe 425TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 426
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427TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
428
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429TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
430 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
431
ae0e32ee 432TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 433 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 434 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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435
436TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 437
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438TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
439
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440TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
441 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
442
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443JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
444
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445JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
446
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447PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
448
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449NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
450 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 451
585121e2 452JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 453
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454PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
455 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
456 function.
a5f239e4 457
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458PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
459 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
460
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461JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
462 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
463 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 464
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465JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
466
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467JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
468
ea722490 469JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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470 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
471
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472JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
473 Bugzilla 884.
474
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475JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
476 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
477
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478JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
479 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
480
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481PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
482 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 483 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 484
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485JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
486 authenticators.
487
c8e2fc1e
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488JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
489 for control.
490
005ac57f
PP
491PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
492
3f1df0e3
PP
493PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
494 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
495 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
496 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
497
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498TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
499
500 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
501 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
502 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
503 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
504 the retry rules.
505
506 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
507 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
508 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
509
510 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
511 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
512 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
513 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
514
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515 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
516 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
517 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
518 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
519 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
520 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
521 delivery, as in LMTP.
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522
523 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
524 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
525
326cdc37
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526TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
527
528 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
529
530 Resent-From: f
531
532 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
533 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
534 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
535 username as equal to the username.
536
537 This change corrects that bug.
538
f62514b3
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539GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
540 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
541 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
542
eb505532
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543TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
544
14c7b357
PP
545PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
546 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
547 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
548 NULL dereference and crash.
549
94eaf700
PP
550JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
551
6f5a440a
PP
552PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
553 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
554 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
555
514ee161
SC
556SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
557
fd98a5c6
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558JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
559 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
560 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
561 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
562 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
563 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
564 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
565 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
566 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
567 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
568 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
569
035c7f1e
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570PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
571 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
572
ff284120
PP
573PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
574 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
575 Bugzilla 880.
576
26e72755
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577PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
578 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
579 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
580 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
581 an empty string is now equivalent.
582
0fbd9bff
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583PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
584 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
585 not performing validation itself.
586
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587PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
588 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
589
fcc8e047
JH
590JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
591 Bugzilla 321, 823.
592
7142daca
PP
593TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
594
8c020188
PP
595PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
596 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
597 other false fix of the same issue.
598 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
599 Bugzilla 1363.
600
d13cdd30
PP
601PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
602 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
603
e2fbf4a2
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604PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
605 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
606 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
607
f4c1088b
PP
608PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
609 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
610 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
611
c5c2182f
PP
612TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
613
73431ca9
JH
614JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
615
2d07a215
TL
616TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
617 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
618
a30a8861
TL
619TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
620 Alexander Miroch.
621
33382dd9
TL
622TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
623 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
624 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
625 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
626 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 627
046172e6
TL
628TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
629 the src/util/ subdirectory.
630
581d7bee 631TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 632 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
633 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
634
635TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
636 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
637 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
638 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
639
237b2cf2
TL
640TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
641
9fc5a352
TL
642TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
643 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
644 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 645
b10e4ec2
TL
646TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
647
e2cebd74
TL
648TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
649 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
650 interaction.
651
652TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
653 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
654
2519e60d
TL
655TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
656 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
657
e78e6ecf 658
4263f395
PP
659Exim version 4.80.1
660-------------------
661
662PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
663 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 664 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 665
ea722490 666
b1770b6e 667Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
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668-----------------
669
670PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
671 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
672 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
673
23c7e742
NM
674NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
675
b322aac8
NM
676NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
677 improved.
678
4a891427
NM
679NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
680
c1e794ba 681PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 682
97753960
PP
683PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
684
685PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
686 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
687
df6303fa
PP
688PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
689 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
690
7e6a8985
PP
691PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
692 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
693
f1e05cc7 694PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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695 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
696 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 697
4c287009
PP
698PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
699
b98bb9ac
PP
700PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
701 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
702
4a6a987a
PP
703PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
704
c45dd180 705PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 706
7db8d074
PP
707PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
708 non-compliant senders.
709 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
710
eae0036b 711NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
712 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
713 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
714
dec5017e
PP
715PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
716 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
717 in spool file corruption.
718
c80c5570
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719PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
720 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
721 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
722 "Got SSL error 2".
723
076b11e2
PP
724TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
725 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
726 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
727
5407bfff
JH
728JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
729 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
730
9e45c72b
PP
731JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
732
e74376d8
PP
733PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
734 diagnostics.
735 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
736
da3ad30d
PP
737PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
738 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
739 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
740
7be682ca
PP
741PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
742 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
743 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
744 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 745
ef840681
PP
746PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
747 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
748
5bfb4cdf
PP
749PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
750 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
751 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
752 resolver implementation change.
753
c6e95d22
PP
754PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
755 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
756
9cbad13b
PP
757PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
758
9ee44efb
PP
759PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
760
6a6084f8
PP
761PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
762 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
763
12dd53c7
PP
764PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
765 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
766
9e45c72b 767JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
768 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
769
17c76198
PP
770PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
771 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
772 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
773 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 774 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 775
53947857 776PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 777
eae0036b 778PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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PP
779 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
780 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 781
9e45c72b 782JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 783
7390e768
PP
784PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
785 read-only, out of scope).
786 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
787
08488c86
PP
788PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
789 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
790 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
791 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
792
6475bd82
PP
793PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
794
81f91683
PP
795PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
796 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
797 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
798 real issues in debug logging.
799
5779e6aa
PP
800PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
801 assignment on my part. Fixed.
802
3375e053
PP
803PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
804 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
805 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
806
807PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
808 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
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809 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
810 problems.
3375e053 811
9d26b8c0
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812PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
813 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
814
57eb9e91 815PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
816 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
817 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
818 needs to override this, it can.
819
16880d1a
PP
820PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
821 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
822 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
823
a799883d
PP
824PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
825 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
826 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
827 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
828
3ecab157 829PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 830
0599f9cf 831
867fcbf5
PP
832Exim version 4.77
833-----------------
834
835PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
836 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
837
f1a29782
TF
838TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
839
ab42bd23
TK
840TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
841 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 842
0ca0cf52
TF
843TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
844 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
845
921b12ca
TF
846TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
847 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
848 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
849
850 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
851 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
852 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
853 not safe for signals.
854
855 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
856 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
857 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
858 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
859 exiwhat.
860
c99ce5c9
TF
861TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
862
863 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
864 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
865 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
866 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
867 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
868
869 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
870 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
871 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
872 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
873 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
874 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
875
876 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
877 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
878 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
879 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
880
881 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
882 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
883 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
884 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
885
886 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
887 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
888 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
889 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
890 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
891 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
892 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
893 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
894 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
895
896 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
897 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
898 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
899 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
900
901 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
902 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
903 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
904 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
905 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
906 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
907 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
908 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
909 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
910 details in the main documentation.
911
3634fc25
TF
912TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
913
792e8a19
TF
914TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
915
5901f0ab
TF
916TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
917 repository when doing development or release builds.
918
7f2a2a43
PP
919PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
920 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 921
061b7ebd
PP
922PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
923 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
924 Bugzilla 97.
925
e12f8c32
PP
926PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
927
9e949f00 928PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
929 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
930
931PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
932 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 933
555ae6af 934PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
935 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
936
937PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
938 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 939
6f7fe114
PP
940PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
941 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
942
c566dd90
PP
943PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
944 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
945 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
946 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 947
d6cc7c78 948PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
949 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
950 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
951
0d0e4455
PP
952PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
953
3399bb60 954PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
955
956PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
957 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
958
0ca0cf52 959
10906672
PP
960Exim version 4.76
961-----------------
962
963PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
964
754a0503
PP
965PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
966 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
967
c0c7b2da
PP
968PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
969
e97d1f08
PP
970PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
971
084c1d8c
PP
972PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
973 Bugzilla 1098.
974
4e7ee012
PP
975PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
976 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 977
c8d52a00
PP
978TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
979 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
980
54e7ce4a
PP
981PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
982 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
983
5ee6f336
PP
984PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
985 Bugzilla 1104.
986
c8d52a00 987TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
988 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
989
990TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
991 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
992 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
993 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
994
995PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
996 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 997
10906672 998
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NM
999Exim version 4.75
1000-----------------
1001
4c9ef03a 1002NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1003 Bugzilla 1073
1004
7f3d9eff
TF
1005TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1006 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1007 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1008
159f52d2
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1009TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1010 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1011
0cc9542a
PP
1012PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1013 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1014 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1015
f7274286
PP
1016PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1017 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1018
7b797365
PP
1019PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1020 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1021
caacae52
NM
1022NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1023 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1024
09dcaba9
NM
1025NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1026 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1027
bc19a55b
PP
1028PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1029 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1030
bd4c9759
NM
1031NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1032 Fixes bug 943.
1033
b72aab72
PP
1034PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1035 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1036
2fe76745
PP
1037PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1038 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1039
76aa570c
PP
1040PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1041 SQL string expansion failure details.
1042 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1043
f1e5fef5
PP
1044PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1045 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1046
4d805ee9
PP
1047PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1048 extern declarations in function scope.
1049 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1050
cd59ab18
PP
1051PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1052 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1053 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1054 a kernel bug).
1055
332f5cf3
PP
1056PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1057 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1058
29cfeb94
PP
1059PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1060 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1061
660242ad
PP
1062PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1063 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1064
bc4bc4c5
PP
1065PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1066 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1067
2e64baa9
NM
1068NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1069 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1070 Dennis Davis.
1071
bddd7526
PP
1072PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1073
6bac1a9a
PP
1074PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1075
552193f0
NM
1076NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1077 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1078
1b587e48
TF
1079TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1080 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1081
aa097c4c 1082
8c07b69f
TF
1083Exim version 4.74
1084-----------------
1085
1086TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1087 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1088
c0ea85ab
TF
1089TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1090 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1091
0761d44e
TF
1092TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1093
0a349494
PP
1094DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1095 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1096 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1097
1098PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1099 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1100 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1101
fea24b2e
PP
1102PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1103 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1104 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1105 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1106
6545de78
PP
1107PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1108 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1109 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1110 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1111
1670ef10
PP
1112PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1113 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1114 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1115 arbitrary files.
1116
c0886197
PP
1117PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1118 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1119
b7487bce
PP
1120PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1121 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1122 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1123 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1124 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1125
8c07b69f 1126
97fd1e48 1127Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1128-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1129
1130PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1131 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1132 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1133
6901c596
PP
1134PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1135 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1136
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1137JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1138
77bb000f
PP
1139PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1140
a29e5231
PP
1141PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1142
ec5a0394 1143PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1144
55c75993
PP
1145PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1146
453a6645 1147PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1148 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1149 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1150 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1151
8544e77a
PP
1152PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1153 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1154 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1155 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1156 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1157
83e029d5
PP
1158PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1159
ed7f7860
PP
1160PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1161
7d9f747b
PP
1162PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1163
4b2241d2
PP
1164PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1165
10385c15
PP
1166PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1167
dbc4b90d
PP
1168PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1169
532be449
PP
1170PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1171
6a8de854 1172PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1173 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1174 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1175
5dc43717
JJ
1176JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1177
1178JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1179 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1180
3346ab01
PP
1181PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1182 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1183
491fab4c
PP
1184PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1185 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1186 Notification from John Horne.
1187
13eb9497
PP
1188PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1189 compatible.
1190
1191PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1192 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1193 it normally works.
1194
7f36d675
DW
1195DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1196 access.
1197
c1d94452
DW
1198DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1199 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1200 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1201
e2f5dc15
DW
1202DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1203 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1204 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1205 configuration file.
1206
cd25e41d
DW
1207DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1208 option (effectively making it always true).
1209
261dc43e
DW
1210DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1211 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1212
fa32850b
DW
1213DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1214 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1215
79d4bc3d
PP
1216PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1217 run-time user, instead of root.
1218
43236f35 1219PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1220 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1221
fb08281f
DW
1222DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1223 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1224 arguments.
3346ab01 1225
74935b98
DW
1226DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1227 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1228 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1229
90b6341f
DW
1230DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1231
57730b52
ML
1232NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1233
66581d1e 1234
465e92cf
JJ
1235Exim version 4.72
1236-----------------
1237
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1238JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1239 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1240 typos
465e92cf 1241
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PP
1242JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1243 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1244 (Finput)
edae0343 1245
9bd3e22c
NM
1246NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1247 Patch from Alain Williams
1248
bb576ff7
NM
1249NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1250
5a1a5845
NM
1251NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1252 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1253
981a9fad
NM
1254NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1255 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1256
7fc497ee
NM
1257NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1258
1a41defa
JJ
1259JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1260
a466095c 1261NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1262 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1263
94a6bd0b
NM
1264TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1265
1266TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1267
1268MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1269 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1270 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1271
c1b141a8
NM
1272NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1273 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1274
b26eacf1 1275NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1276 Patch by Simon Arlott
1277
179c5980 1278PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1279 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1280
9bd3e22c 1281
7c6d71af
NM
1282Exim version 4.71
1283-----------------
1284
7d9f747b 1285TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1286
f013fb92
NM
1287NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1288
0eb8eedd
NM
1289NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1290
663ee6d9
NM
1291NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1292
177ebd9b
NM
1293NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1294
7c6d71af 1295
210f147e
NM
1296Exim version 4.70
1297-----------------
1298
cdd3bb85 1299TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1300 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1301
1302TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1303 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1304 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1305
1306TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1307 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1308 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1309
1310TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1311 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1312
210f147e
NM
1313NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1314 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1315 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1316 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1317
deafd5b3
NM
1318NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1319 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1320 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1321
089793a4
TF
1322TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1323
5f16ca82
TF
1324TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1325
dae9d94e 1326NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1327 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1328
7d9f747b 1329NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1330
06864c44
TF
1331TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1332 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1333 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1334 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1335
65a7d8c3 1336NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1337 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1338
23510047 1339TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1340
7d9f747b 1341NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1342
7d8eec3a 1343NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1344 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1345
89dec7b6
TF
1346TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1347 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1348
a99de90c
TF
1349TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1350 that they are available at delivery time.
1351
e2803e40
TF
1352TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1353
7199e1ee
TF
1354TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1355 incoming_port log selectors.
1356
e276e04b
TF
1357TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1358 setting expands to an empty string.
1359
ce552449 1360NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1361 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1362
e765a0f1 1363NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1364 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1365
4f054c63 1366NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1367 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1368
7d9f747b
PP
1369NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1370 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1371
7d9f747b
PP
1372NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1373 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1374
b52bc06e 1375NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1376 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1377
447de4b0
NM
1378NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1379
4c69d561 1380NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1381 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1382
d5c39246 1383NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1384 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1385
0b23848a
TK
1386TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1387
8f3414a1 1388NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1389 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1390
fb6f955d
NM
1391NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1392
1393NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1394
7d9f747b
PP
1395NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1396 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1397
7d9f747b
PP
1398NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1399 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1400
7d9f747b
PP
1401NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1402 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1403
7d9f747b
PP
1404NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1405 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1406
7d9f747b
PP
1407NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1408 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1409
7d9f747b
PP
1410NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1411 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1412
7d9f747b
PP
1413NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1414 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1415
7d9f747b 1416NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1417 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1418
7d9f747b 1419NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1420
7d9f747b
PP
1421NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1422 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1423
7d9f747b 1424NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1425
7d9f747b 1426NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1427
7d9f747b 1428NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1429
7d9f747b 1430NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1431
17792b53 1432NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1433 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1434
7d9f747b
PP
1435NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1436 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1437
91576cec 1438NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1439 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1440
7d9f747b
PP
1441NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1442 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1443
7d9f747b 1444NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1445
7d9f747b 1446NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1447
7d9f747b 1448NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1449
7d9f747b 1450NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1451
deafd5b3 1452
47db1125
NM
1453Exim version 4.69
1454-----------------
1455
4b3504d0
TK
1456TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1457 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1458 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1459
1460 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1461 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1462 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1463 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1464 build errors in sieve.c.
1465
81ea09ca
NM
1466NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1467 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1468 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1469
f13cddcb
SC
1470SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1471
7d9f747b 1472NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1473
7d9f747b 1474NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1475
7d9f747b 1476NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
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1477
1478
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1479Exim version 4.68
1480-----------------
1481
1482PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1483
6a3bceb1
PH
1484PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1485 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1486 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1487 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1488 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1489 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1490 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1491 for iplsearch lookups.
1492
1493 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1494 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1495 previously such lookups could never work.
1496
1497 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1498 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1499 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1500
2e30fa9d
TK
1501TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1502 version.
1503
0806a9c5
MH
1504MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1505 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1506 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1507 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1508 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1509 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1510
ae276964
TK
1511TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1512 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1513
0f2cbd1b
MH
1514MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1515 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1516 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1517 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1518 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1519 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1520
2b85bce7
PH
1521PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1522 local_scan API.
1523
93655c46
PH
1524PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1525
6c512171
PH
1526PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1527 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1528 encrypted.
1529
1530PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1531 by clients under certain conditions.
1532
aa6dc513
PH
1533PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1534 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1535
a96603a0
PH
1536PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1537
8f240103
PH
1538PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1539 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1540
1541PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1542
d677b2f2
PH
1543PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1544
d52120f2
PH
1545PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1546
64f2600a
PH
1547PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1548 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1549
8669f003
PH
1550PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1551
a4dc33a8
PH
1552PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1553 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1554
d6a60c0f
PH
1555PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1556
8f128379
PH
1557PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1558
8932dffe
PH
1559PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1560 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1561 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1562 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1563
ddea74fa 1564PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1565 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1566 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1567
ddea74fa 1568PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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PH
1569 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1570
ddea74fa
PH
1571PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1572
ce9f225c
PH
1573PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1574
19897d52
PH
1575PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1576
bc64a74d
PH
1577PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1578 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1579 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1580
eb4c0de6 1581
b4ed4da0
PH
1582Exim version 4.67
1583-----------------
1584
22ad45c9
MH
1585MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1586 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1587 Jan Srzednicki.
1588
b4ed4da0
PH
1589PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1590 issue a MAIL command.
1591
431b7361
PH
1592PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1593
1594 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1595
1596 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1597 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1598 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1599 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1600 item. This has been fixed.
1601
1602PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1603 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1604
83da1223
PH
1605PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1606 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1607
54fc8428
PH
1608PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1609 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1610 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1611
34c5e8dd
SC
1612SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1613
bbe15da8
PH
1614PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1615 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1616 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1617 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1618 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1619
0e8a9471
MH
1620MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1621 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1622 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1623
f0872424
PH
1624PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1625 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1626 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1627 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1628
b01dd148
PH
1629PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1630
6bf342e1
PH
1631PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1632
273f34d0
PH
1633PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1634 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1635 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1636 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1637 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1638
cf8b11a5
PH
1639PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1640
41c7c167
PH
1641PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1642 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1643 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1644 values).
1645
9c57cbc0
PH
1646PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1647
f3f065bb
PH
1648PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1649
047bdd8c
PH
1650PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1651
0ce9abe6
PH
1652PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1653
0e22dfd1
PH
1654PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1655
4c590bd1
PH
1656PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1657 no_callout_flush is set.
1658
09945f1e
PH
1659PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1660 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1661 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1662 fixed.
1663
c51b8e75
PH
1664PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1665
e28326d8
PH
1666PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1667 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1668 other ACL rejections are.
1669
75b1493f
PH
1670PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1671 with slight modification.
1672
7c5214ec
PH
1673PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1674 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1675
4311097e
PH
1676PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1677 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1678 connection.
1679
29f89cad
PH
1680PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1681 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1682
5e687460
SC
1683SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1684
c3611384
PH
1685PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1686 expansion side effects.
1687
5a11a7b4
PH
1688PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1689 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1690 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1691 be the same.
1692
0e20aff9
MH
1693MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1694 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1695 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1696
ca86f471
PH
1697PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1698 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1699 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1700 were accidentally chopped off.
1701
a14e5636
PH
1702PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1703 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1704 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1705 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1706 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1707 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1708 pipelining has not been advertised.
1709
ec95d1a6
PH
1710PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1711
42855d71
PH
1712PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1713 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1714 This has been fixed.
1715
57c2c631
PH
1716PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1717 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1718 reported on Solaris.
1719
58c01c94
PH
1720PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1721 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1722 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1723 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1724 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1725 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1726 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1727
dee5a20a
PH
1728PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1729 cpus.
1730
d2ee6114
PH
1731PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1732
b2d5182b
PH
1733PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1734
79749a79
PH
1735PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1736 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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PH
1737 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1738 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1739 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1740 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1741
c456d9bb
PH
1742PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1743 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1744 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1745 host_all_ignored option.
1746
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PH
1747PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1748 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1749 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1750 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1751 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1752 is what is supposed to happen).
1753
ebeaf996
PH
1754PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1755 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1756 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1757 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1758 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1759 uses the Exim user.
1760
2679d413
PH
1761PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1762 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1763 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1764 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1765 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1766 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1767 users.
1768
84024b72
PH
1769PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1770
8005d38e
SC
1771SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1772 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1773 (Jez Hancock).
1774 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1775 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1776
3298c6c6
SC
1777SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1778
a43a27c5
PH
1779PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1780
58eb016e 1781PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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PH
1782 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1783 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1784 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1785 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1786 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1787 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1788 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1789 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1790 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1791 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1792
b43a74ea
PH
1793PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1794 advertised in response to EHLO.
1795
b4ed4da0 1796
5dd1517f
PH
1797Exim version 4.66
1798-----------------
1799
1800PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1801 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1802
1803 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1804 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1805
1806 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1807 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1808 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1809
1810 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1811 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1812 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1813 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1814 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1815
1816
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1817Exim version 4.65
1818-----------------
1819
1820TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1821 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1822 versions. (#438)
1823
d6066548
MH
1824MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1825 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1826 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1827
4362ff0d
PH
1828PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1829 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1830 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1831 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1832 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1833 rather than extend the field.
1834
93cfa765 1835
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1836Exim version 4.64
1837-----------------
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1839TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1840 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1841 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1842 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1843 these files.
1844
1845TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1846 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1847 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1848
1849TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1850 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1851 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1852
1853TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1854 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1855 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1856 in the field name.
1857
2b1c6e3a
PH
1858PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1859 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1860 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1861 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1862 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1863 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1864 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1865 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1866 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1867 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1868 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1869
1f872c80
PH
1870PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1871 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1872
1873PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1874 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1875 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1876 ignores EPIPE as well.
1877
d203e649
PH
1878PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1879 (quoted-printable decoding).
1880
cc2ed8f7 1881PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1882 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1883
ddfcd446
PH
1884PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1885
d45b1de8
PH
1886PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1887
1888PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1889
38a0a95f 1890PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1891 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1892
a2405d83
JJ
1893JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1894 in 4.64-PH/09.
1895
1896JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1897 miscellaneous code fixes
1898
6ea85e9a
PH
1899PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1900 rejections.
1901
26da7e20
PH
1902PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1903 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1904 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1905 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1906 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1907 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1908 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1909 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1910
14aa5a05 1911PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1912 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1913 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1914 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1915 function.
1916 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1917 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1918 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1919 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1920 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1921 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1922 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1923 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1924 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1925
ff75a1f7
PH
1926PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1927 decoding.
1928
e6f6568e
PH
1929PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1930 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1931 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1932 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1933 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1934 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1935 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1936 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1937
d6f6e0dc
PH
1938PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1939 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1940 list.
1941
322050c2
PH
1942PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1943 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1944 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1945 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1946 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1947 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1948 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1949 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1950 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1951 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1952 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1953 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1954 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1955
08955dd3
PH
1956PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1957 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1958 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1959 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1960 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1961 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1962 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1963
1eccaa59
PH
1964PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1965 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1966 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1967 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1968 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1969 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1970 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1971 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1972 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1973 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1974
602e59e5
PH
1975PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1976 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1977 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1978 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1979 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1980
411ef850
PH
1981PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1982 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1983 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1984 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1985 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1986 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1987 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1988
7befa435
PH
1989PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1990 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1991 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1992 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1993 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1994 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1995 been verified.
1996
48da4259 1997PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1998 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1999 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2000 and authorization.)
2001
48da4259
PH
2002PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2003 if any retry times were supplied.
2004
d1d5595c
PH
2005PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2006 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2007 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2008
0ef732d9
PH
2009PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2010
328895cc
PH
2011PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2012
fd700877
PH
2013PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2014 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2015 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2016 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2017 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2018 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2019
8dce1a6f
PH
2020PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2021 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2022
17af4a17
PH
2023PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2024 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2025 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2026
2027PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2028 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2029 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2030 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2031 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2032 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2033 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2034 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2035 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2036
2037 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2038 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2039 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2040 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2041 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2042 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2043 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2044 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2045 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2046
2047 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2048 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2049 hammering the server.
2050
c1114884
PH
2051PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2052 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2053
7a0743eb
PH
2054PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2055
0d85fa3f
PH
2056PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2057 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2058 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2059
1bf43b78
PH
2060PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2061 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2062 one case where this was not true.
2063
520de300
PH
2064PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2065 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2066 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2067 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2068 fails.
2069
48c7f9e2
PH
2070PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2071 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2072 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2073 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2074 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2075 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2076 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2077 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2078 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2079 smtp transport.
2080
99ea1c86
PH
2081PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2082 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2083 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2084 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2085
a2042e78
PH
2086PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2087 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2088
4fbcfc2e
PH
2089PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2090 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2091 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2092
aa41d2de
PH
2093PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2094
af561417
PH
2095PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2096
3cc66b45
PH
2097PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2098
194cc0e4
PH
2099PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2100 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2101 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2102 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2103
a401ddaa
PH
2104PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2105 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2106
4e88a19f
PH
2107PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2108 be meaningful with "accept".
2109
d7d7b289
SC
2110SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2111 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2112
2113SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2114 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2115 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2116
2117SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2118 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2119 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2120 there is data to show.
2121 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2122
2123SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2124 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2125 as well as the number of messages.
2126
2127SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2128 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2129 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2130
2131SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2132 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2133 have a flag are now skipped.
2134
2135SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2136 Added the -emptyok flag.
2137
2138SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2139 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2140
0ea2a468
JJ
2141JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2142 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2143 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2144
2145JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2146 match 4.64-PH/13
2147
2148JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2149 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2150
2151JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2152
2153JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2154 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2155
8a10f5a4
PH
2156PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2157
30e18802
PH
2158PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2159 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2160 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2161 contravention of the specifications.
2162
55728a4f
PH
2163PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2164 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2165 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2166
d7837193
PH
2167PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2168 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2169 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2170
87054a31
PH
2171PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2172
ea2c01d2
MH
2173MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2174 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2175 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2176 some point in the past.
2177
e4fa6968
PH
2178PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2179 transport during callout processing was broken.
2180
56f5d9bd
PH
2181PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2182 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2183
922e1c28
PH
2184PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2185 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2186
21eb6e72
PH
2187PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2188 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2189
a0540757
PH
2190PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2191
944e9e9c 2192
478be7b0
SC
2193Exim version 4.63
2194-----------------
2195
2196SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2197 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2198
2199SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2200 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2201 there is data to show.
2202 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2203
2204SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2205 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2206
2b965a65
TF
2207TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2208 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2209
45b91596
PH
2210TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2211 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2212
c59f5781
TF
2213TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2214 submissions from trusted users.
2215
90fc3069
TF
2216TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2217 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2218
6083aca0
TF
2219TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2220 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2221 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2222 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2223 there is now a framework to start from.
2224
765b530f
PH
2225PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2226 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2227 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2228
4e167a8c
PH
2229PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2230
4608d683
PH
2231PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2232
b8dc3e4a
PH
2233PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2234
5418e93b
PH
2235PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2236 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2237 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2238
b4a9bda2
PH
2239PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2240 libradius.
2241
45b91596
PH
2242PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2243 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2244 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2245
5547e2c5
PH
2246PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2247 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2248 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2249 its arguments.
2250
dbcef0ea
PH
2251PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2252 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2253 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2254 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2255 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2256
25257489
PH
2257PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2258 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2259
c816d124
PH
2260PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2261
a9ccd69a
PH
2262PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2263 operations in malware.c.
2264
75fa1910
PH
2265PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2266 signatures.
2267
a7d7aa58
PH
2268PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2269 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2270 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2271 all.
2272
42119b09
PH
2273PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2274 statements to "add_header".
2275
41609df5
PH
2276PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2277 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2278
a5bd321b
PH
2279PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2280 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2281 latter.
2282
e85a7ad5 2283PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2284 so that it is now:
2285
e85a7ad5
PH
2286 ${if or { \
2287 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2288 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2289 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2290 }{no}{yes}}
2291
e85a7ad5
PH
2292 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2293 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2294
d8fe1c03
PH
2295PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2296 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2297
16282d2b
PH
2298PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2299 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2300 any possible encoding problems.
2301
35d40a98
PH
2302PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2303 but not after initializing Perl.
2304
034d99ab
PH
2305PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2306 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2307 apparently, which is not desirable.
2308
6ec97b1b
PH
2309PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2310 queries.
2311
e22ca4ac
JJ
2312JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2313 --not options
2314
2315JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2316
33d73e3b
PH
2317PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2318 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2319 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2320 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2321
9ecb03f3
PH
2322PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2323 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2324 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2325
084efe8d
PH
2326PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2327 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2328 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2329 0.12.
2330
366fc9f0
PH
2331PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2332 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2333 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2334 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2335 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2336
c59f5781 2337
c887c79e
TF
2338Exim version 4.62
2339-----------------
2340
2341TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2342 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2343
1cce3af8
PH
2344PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2345 patch).
2346
afb3eaaf
PH
2347PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2348 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2349 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2350 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2351 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2352 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2353 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2354 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2355 451 error is used.
2356
e173618b
PH
2357PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2358
dd16e114
PH
2359PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2360 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2361 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2362
f7fd3850
PH
2363PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2364 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2365 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2366 odd errors.
2367
d87df92c
PH
2368PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2369 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2370
7e9f683d
PH
2371PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2372 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2373 option (which defaults to 0600).
2374
bfad5236
PH
2375PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2376
01c490df
PH
2377PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2378 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2379 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2380 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2381 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2382 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2383 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2384
d6629cdc
PH
2385PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2386
1cce3af8 2387
214e2000
PH
2388Exim version 4.61
2389-----------------
2390
2391PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2392 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2393 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2394 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2395 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2396 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2397 addresses as local.
2398
f9daeae0
PH
2399PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2400 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2401
7e66e54d
PH
2402PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2403
c8ea1597
PH
2404PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2405 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2406 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2407 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2408 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2409 grumble.
2410
911f6fde
PH
2411PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2412 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2413
47ca6d6c
PH
2414PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2415 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2416 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2417 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2418 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2419
ed0e9820
PH
2420PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2421 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2422 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2423 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2424
eff37e47
PH
2425PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2426 be the same on different OS.
2427
1921d2ea
PH
2428PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2429 testing.
2430
b3f69ca8
JJ
2431JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2432 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2433
2434JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2435 in 4.61-PH/06
2436
424a1c63
PH
2437PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2438 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2439 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2440 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2441 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2442 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2443 bounce message.
2444
7a100415
PH
2445PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2446 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2447 when Exim was called.
2448
19b9dc85
PH
2449PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2450 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2451
309bd837
PH
2452PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2453 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2454 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2455 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2456
59e82a2a
PH
2457PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2458 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2459 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2460 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2461 changes:
2462
2463 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2464 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2465 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2466
2467 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2468 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2469 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2470
9edc04ce
PH
2471PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2472 feature).
2473
1349e1e5
PH
2474PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2475 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2476 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2477 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2478 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2479 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2480 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2481 values from the SRV records were lost.
2482
ea49d0e1
PH
2483PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2484 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2485 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2486
064a94c9
PH
2487PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2488 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2489 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2490
727071f8
PH
2491PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2492 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2493 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2494 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2495 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2496 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2497 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2498 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2499 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2500 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2501
f78eb7c6
PH
2502PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2503 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2504 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2505
21c28500
PH
2506PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2507 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2508
2509PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2510 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2511 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2512 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2513 is given.
2514
1688f43b
PH
2515PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2516 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2517 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2518
2519PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2520 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2521 PH/23 above applies.
2522
9675b384
PH
2523PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2524 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2525 (for which there is an explicit test).
2526
6a3f1455
PH
2527PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2528
dac79d3e
PH
2529PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2530 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2531 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2532 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2533 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2534
5977a0b3
PH
2535PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2536 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2537 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2538 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2539
c91535f3
PH
2540PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2541 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2542 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2543
0d46a8c8
PH
2544PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2545
278c6e6c
PH
2546PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2547
2cbb4081
PH
2548PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2549 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2550 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2551
3eef829e
PH
2552PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2553 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2554 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2555 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2556 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2557
1ab95fa6
PH
2558PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2559 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2560 the message gets confusing).
2561
230205fc
PH
2562PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2563 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2564 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2565 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2566
75e0e026
PH
2567PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2568 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2569 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2570 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2571 same order.
2572
2573PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2574 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2575 the different processes.
2576
145396a6
PH
2577PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2578
3cd34f13
PH
2579PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2580
11121d3d
JJ
2581JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2582 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2583
2584JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2585 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2586
2587JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2588 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2589 messages matching specified criteria.
2590
8def5aaf
PH
2591PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2592
929ba01c
PH
2593PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2594 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2595
2632889e
PH
2596PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2597 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2598 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2599 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2600 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2601 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2602 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2603 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2604 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2605 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2606
944a9c55
PH
2607PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2608 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2609 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2610
4a23603b
PH
2611PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2612
4730f942
PH
2613PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2614 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2615 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2616 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2617 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2618 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2619 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2620 the variable.
2621
30dba1e6
PH
2622PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2623 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2624
382afc6b
PH
2625PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2626
a86229cf
PH
2627PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2628
50c99ba6
PH
2629PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2630
d35e429d
PH
2631PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2632 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2633 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2634 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2635 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2636 size of the count of files.
2637
f90d018c
PH
2638PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2639
75def545
PH
2640PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2641 used in LMTP mode:
2642
2643 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2644 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2645 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2646 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2647
2648 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2649 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2650 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2651
2652PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2653 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2654 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2655 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2656 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2657
c46782ef
PH
2658PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2659 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2660
71fafd95
PH
2661PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2662 will now be deprecated.
2663
2c5db4fd
PH
2664PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2665
9cf6b11a
JJ
2666JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2667 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2668 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2669
2670JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2671 with very large, slow to parse queues
2672
2673JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2674
2675JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2676
898d150f
PH
2677PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2678 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2679 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2680 SMTP output lines.
2681
46218253
PH
2682PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2683 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2684 Sieve code now uses this.
2685
e97957bc
PH
2686PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2687 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2688
81e509d7
PH
2689PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2690 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2691
3d240ff7
PH
2692PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2693
b37c4101
PH
2694PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2695 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2696 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2697 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2698 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2699
79378e0f
PH
2700PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2701 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2702 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2703 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2704
e49c7bb4
PH
2705PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2706
d114ec46
PH
2707PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2708
f3d7df6c
PH
2709PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2710 is preferred over IPv4.
2711
715ab376
PH
2712PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2713 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2714 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2715 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2716 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2717 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2718 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2719
6b31b150
PH
2720PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2721 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2722 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2723
2724PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2725
d515a917
PH
2726PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2727 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2728 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2729 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2730 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2731 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2732 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2733 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2734 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2735 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2736 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2737
9b8fadde
PH
2738PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2739 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2740 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2741
214e2000 2742
5de37277
PH
2743Exim version 4.60
2744-----------------
2745
cc38ddbf
PH
2746PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2747
2748 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2749 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2750
2751 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2752 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2753 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2754
72fdd6ae
PH
2755PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2756
2757 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2758 not a single digit.
2759
2760 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2761 string.
2762
2763 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2764 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2765 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2766 silly things.
2767
2768 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2769 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2770
2771 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2772 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2773
cb741023
PH
2774PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2775 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2776 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2777
f174f16e
PH
2778PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2779 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2780
c25242d7
PH
2781PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2782 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2783
2784 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2785
2786 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2787 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2788 this:
2789
2790 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2791
82c19f95
PH
2792PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2793 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2794 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2795 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2796 identical. For example:
2797
2798 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2799
2800 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2801 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2802 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2803
d7ffbc12
PH
2804PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2805 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2806 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2807 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2808
9f526266
PH
2809PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2810 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2811 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2812 message.
2813
87fcc8b9
PH
2814PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2815
2816 o fixes some comments
2817 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2818 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2819 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2820 and documents the missing references header update
2821
2822 and most important:
2823
2824 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2825 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2826 result)
2827
456682f5
PH
2828PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2829 Electronic Mail") by including:
2830
2831 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2832
2833 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2834 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2835 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2836 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2837 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2838
2839 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2840
2841 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2842
2843 The auto-replied keyword:
2844
2845 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2846 message by an automatic process,
2847
2848 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2849
2850 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2851 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2852
2853 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2854 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2855 other messages.
2856
3e46c1aa
PH
2857PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2858 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2859
49826d12
PH
2860PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2861
eba0c039
PH
2862PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2863 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2864 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2865
a0d6ba8a
PH
2866PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2867 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2868 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2869
f0917727
PH
2870PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2871 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2872 and treats the condition as false.
2873
096fee00
PH
2874PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2875
024bd3c2
PH
2876PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2877 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2878 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2879 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2880 not changing the active code.
2881
2882 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2883 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2884
2885 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2886 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2887
df199fec
PH
2888PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2889 (Bugzilla #53).
2890
d27f1df3
PH
2891PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2892 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2893 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2894 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2895 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2896 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2897 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2898 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2899 the text comparison.
2900
96776534
PH
2901PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2902 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2903 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2904 The same fix has been applied.
2905
5de37277 2906
9a799bc0
PH
2907Exim version 4.54
2908-----------------
2909
2910PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2911 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2912 It now does.
2913
99a4b039
PH
2914PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2915 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2916
2917PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2918
4b233853
PH
2919PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2920 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2921 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2922 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2923 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2924
8857ccfd
PH
2925TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2926 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2927 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2928 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2929 or /domain=).
2930
433a2980
PH
2931PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2932 testing suite.
2933
3e46c1aa 2934
9a799bc0 2935
e3a311ba
TK
2936Exim version 4.53
2937-----------------
2938
2939TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2940 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2941
13b685f9
PH
2942PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2943
395ff96d
PH
2944PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2945
5b68f6e4
PH
2946PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2947 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2948 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2949
1ab52c69
PH
2950PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2951 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2952 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2953
b07e6aa3
PH
2954PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2955 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2956 operating systems.
2957
254e032f
PH
2958PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2959 ${stat: expansion item.
2960
3af76a81
PH
2961PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2962 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2963
2548ba04
PH
2964PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2965 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2966 file for comments.
2967
b6c6011d
PH
2968PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2969
cf39cf57
PH
2970PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2971 setting.
2972
f1513293
PH
2973PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2974 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2975
727549a4
PH
2976TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2977
af46795e
PH
2978PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2979 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2980 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2981 the end of the subprocess.
2982
d7b47fd0
PH
2983PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2984 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2985 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2986 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2987 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2988
ee744174
JJ
2989JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2990
b582ab87
PH
2991TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2992
41a13e0a
PH
2993PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2994 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2995
f625cc5a
PH
2996PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2997
2998PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2999
21f7af35
PH
3000PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3001 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3002 HP-UX compiler.
3003
31480e42
PH
3004PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3005
2d280592
PH
3006PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3007 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3008 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3009
7cd1141b
PH
3010PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3011 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3012
3013PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3014 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3015
750af86e
PH
3016PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3017 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3018
3019 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3020 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3021
3022 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3023 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3024 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3025 contributed by a Radius user.
3026
3027PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3028 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3029
4304270b
TK
3030TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3031 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3032
750af86e
PH
3033PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3034 available.
3035
64ffc24f
PH
3036PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3037 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3038 received.
3039
5dd9625b
PH
3040PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3041 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3042 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3043 header lines when this was not necessary.
3044
5591031b
PH
3045PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3046
ba18e66a
PH
3047PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3048 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3049 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3050 exists".
3051
9cec981f
PH
3052PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3053 -bV or -d is used.
3054
aa2b5c79
PH
3055PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3056 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3057 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3058 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3059
48a53b7f
PH
3060PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3061
1c59d63b
PH
3062PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3063
671012da
TK
3064TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3065
1509d3a8
PH
3066PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3067
3068PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3069 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3070 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3071 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3072 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3073 settings.
3074
3075PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3076
2fe1a124
PH
3077PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3078 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3079 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3080 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3081 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3082 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3083 which is clearly wrong.
3084
8800895a
PH
3085PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3086
ccfdb010
PH
3087PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3088 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3089 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3090 subsequently added.
3091
1130bfb0
PH
3092PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3093 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3094
ebcb507f
PH
3095PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3096
c35e155c
PH
3097PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3098 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3099
95d1f782
PH
3100PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3101 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3102
fd6de02e
PH
3103PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3104 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3105
58de37c5
PH
3106PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3107 recipients, not senders.
3108
261cf466
TF
3109TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3110 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3111
3ee512ff
PH
3112PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3113
e08c430f
PH
3114PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3115
bef5a11f
PH
3116PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3117 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3118 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3119 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3120
7546de58
TF
3121TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3122
e5d5a95f
TF
3123TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3124 clock is set back in time.
3125
2e88a017
TF
3126TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3127 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3128
a5f65aa4
TF
3129TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3130 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3131
e7726cbf
PH
3132PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3133 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3134 (see PH/47 above).
3135
a7fdad5b
TF
3136TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3137 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3138 header rewrites.
3139
6af56900
PH
3140PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3141 type ("H").
3142
0925ede6
PH
3143PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3144
66afa403
TF
3145TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3146 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3147 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3148
0154e85a
TF
3149TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3150 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3151 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3152 helo verification defer as a failure.
3153
16f12c76
PH
3154PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3155 actual error message.
3156
bbe902f0 3157
e5a9dba6
PH
3158Exim version 4.52
3159-----------------
3160
3161TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3162
22c3b60b
PH
3163PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3164 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3165 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3166 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3167
06a9b4b5
PH
3168TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3169
c1ac6996
PH
3170PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3171 can still be requested.
3172
9c7a242c
PH
3173PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3174 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3175 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3176 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3177
87ba3f5f
PH
3178TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3179 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3180 circumstances, but probably never did.
3181
3182PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3183 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3184 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3185 in the header line.
3186
29aba418
TF
3187TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3188
fe0dab11
TF
3189TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3190 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3191
11d337a4
TK
3192TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3193
3194TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3195
415c8f3b
PH
3196PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3197 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3198 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3199 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3200 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3201 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3202
958541e9
PH
3203PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3204 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3205 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3206 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3207 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3208 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3209
c206415f
TK
3210TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3211 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3212
2a4be8f9
PH
3213PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3214 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3215
1cba11c5
SC
3216SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3217 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3218
3219SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3220
3221SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3222
3223SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3224
3225SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3226
3227SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3228
3229SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3230
1005d00e
TK
3231TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3232
3233TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3234 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3235 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3236
3237TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3238 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3239 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3240 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3241
9b4768fa
PH
3242PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3243 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3244 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3245
3246PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3247 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3248 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3249 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3250
0d7eb84a
PH
3251PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3252 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3253 to be made).
3254
3255PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3256 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3257 should work with maildirs and everything.
3258
40727bee
TK
3259TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3260 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3261
554d2369
TF
3262TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3263 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3264
1f922db1
PH
3265PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3266 function for BDB 4.3.
3267
ef213c3b
PH
3268PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3269
8ac170f3
PH
3270PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3271 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3272 involved.
3273
b1c749bb
PH
3274PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3275 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3276 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3277 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3278 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3279 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3280
4aac9b49
PH
3281PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3282 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3283 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3284 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3285 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3286 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3287 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3288 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3289
294520c8
TK
3290TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3291 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3292 details.
3293
5bd022fe
PH
3294PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3295 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3296
90e9ce59
PH
3297PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3298 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3299 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3300 test. It is now used for both.
3301
5ea81592
PH
3302PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3303 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3304 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3305 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3306 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3307 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3308
c6c2dc1d
PH
3309PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3310 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3311 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3312 string_vformat().
3313
fffffe4c
PH
3314PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3315 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3316 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3317
9a26b6b2
PH
3318PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3319 experimental DomainKeys support:
3320
3321 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3322 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3323 the control was given.
3324
3325 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3326
4aee0225
PH
3327PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3328
32d668a5
PH
3329PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3330
8187c3f3
PH
3331PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3332 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3333 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3334 db.h files).
3335
ff790e47 3336PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3337 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3338 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3339 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3340 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3341 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3342 course.
ff790e47 3343
5417f6d1
PH
3344PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3345 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3346 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3347 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3348 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3349 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3350
59cf8544
PH
3351PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3352 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3353 do -d+all out of habit.
3354
e7ad8a65
PH
3355PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3356 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3357 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3358
ade42478
PH
3359PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3360 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3361 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3362 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3363 record types that Exim uses.
3364
182ad5cf
PH
3365PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3366 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3367 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3368 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3369 non-existent file that was broken.
3370
b0d9fc80
TK
3371TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3372 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3373
3374TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3375 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3376 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3377
3378TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3379
47c7a64a
PH
3380PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3381 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3382 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3383 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3384 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3385 same time.
3386
a388bce4
SC
3387SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3388 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3389 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3390 at a slight CPU cost.
3391
3392SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3393 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3394
3395SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3396 by Marc Sherman.
3397
0793e4ed
SC
3398SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3399
c58b88df
PH
3400PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3401 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3402
e7ad8a65 3403
7982096b
PH
3404Exim version 4.51
3405-----------------
3406
1a46a8c5
PH
3407TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3408 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3409
2f079f46 3410TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3411
3412TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3413
3414PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3415 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3416
3417PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3418 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3419 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3420 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3421 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3422 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3423 file.
3424
3425PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3426 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3427 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3428 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3429 these two options.
3430
3431PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3432 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3433 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3434 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3435 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3436 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3437 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3438 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3439
3440PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3441 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3442
3443PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3444 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3445 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3446 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3447 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3448 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3449
3450PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3451 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3452 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3453 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3454
3455PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3456 Finch).
3457
3458PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3459 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3460
49c2d5ea
PH
3461PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3462 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3463 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3464 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3465 message.
49c2d5ea 3466
bf759a8b
PH
3467PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3468
83364d30
PH
3469PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3470 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3471
7999bbd7
PH
3472PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3473 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3474 to what was transported.)
3475
7dbf77c9
PH
3476TF/01 Added $received_time.
3477
74e0617f
PH
3478PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3479 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3480 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3481 spamd_address settings.
3482
2f079f46
PH
3483PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3484 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3485 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3486 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3487 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3488
8c841523
PH
3489PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3490
7766a4f0
PH
3491PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3492 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3493 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3494 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3495 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3496
8b417f2c
PH
3497PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3498 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3499
901f42cb
PH
3500PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3501 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3502 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3503 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3504 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3505 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3506 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3507 for failure.
3508
f9b9210e
PH
3509PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3510 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3511 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3512 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3513 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3514 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3515 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3516 "input=".
3517
54cdb463
PH
3518PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3519
cf00dad6
PH
3520PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3521 driver and ACL definitions.
3522
acb1b346
PH
3523PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3524 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3525
c5ddb310
PH
3526PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3527 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3528 understands it better than I do:
3529
3530 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3531 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3532
3533 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3534 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3535 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3536 => three warnings about OTP not working
3537 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3538
3539 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3540 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3541 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3542 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3543 for each call.)
3544 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3545 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3546
3547 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3548 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3549 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3550
31619da6
PH
3551PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3552 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3553 specified.
3554
bebaf0fc
PH
3555PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3556 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3557 "Linux".
3558
475fe28a
PH
3559PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3560 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3561 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3562
3563 warn !verify = sender
3564 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3565
3566 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3567 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3568
7e8bec7a
PH
3569PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3570
3571 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3572 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3573
3574 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3575 nomenclature these days.)
3576
e4a89c47
PH
3577PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3578 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3579
5ca2a9a1
PH
3580PH/30 In these circumstances:
3581 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3582 . First host does not offer TLS;
3583 . First host accepts first address;
3584 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3585 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3586 . Second host accepts second address.
3587 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3588 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3589 address.
7e8bec7a 3590
c688b954
PH
3591PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3592 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3593 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3594 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3595 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3596
fed77020
PH
3597PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3598 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3599
7fe1560f
PH
3600PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3601 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3602
ebb6e6d5
PH
3603PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3604 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3605 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3606
9c4e8f60
PH
3607PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3608 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3609 overlooked.
3610
3611PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3612
d7174846
PH
3613PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3614 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3615 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3616 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3617 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3618 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3619 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3620
3621 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3622 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3623 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3624 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3625 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3626
3627 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3628 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3629 routed further.
3630
cfe75fc3
PH
3631PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3632 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3633 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3634 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3635 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3636 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3637
be22d70e
PH
3638PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3639
0612b098
PH
3640PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3641 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3642 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3643 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3644 printable escape sequences.
3645
2e0c1448
PH
3646PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3647 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3648 body only.
3649
447d236c
PH
3650PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3651 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3652 are as follows:
3653
3654 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3655 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3656 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3657 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3658 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3659
3660 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3661 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3662 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3663
d20976dc
PH
3664PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3665
f656d135
PH
3666PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3667 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3668 play with."
3669
2e2a30b4
PH
3670PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3671 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3672 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3673 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3674 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3675 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3676 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3677 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3678 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3679 the log output.
3680
9176e9f0
PH
3681PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3682 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3683 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3684 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3685 "make".
3686
7982096b 3687
bbe902f0
PH
3688A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3689----------------------------------------
3690
3691Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3692changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3693needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3694in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3695that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3696release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3697from 4.43.
3698
3699I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
37004.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3701those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3702historical information.
3703
3704
f7b63901 3705Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3706-----------------
3707
5fe762f6
PH
3708 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3709
139059f6 3710 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3711 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3712
7086e875
PH
3713 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3714 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3715 place.
3716
35af9f61
PH
3717 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3718 filter fails to execute.
3719
b668c215
PH
3720 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3721 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3722 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3723 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3724 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3725
a494b1e1
PH
3726 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3727
3728 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3729 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3730 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3731 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3732
c5fcb476
PH
3733 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3734 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3735 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3736 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3737 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3738
69358f02
PH
3739 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3740
5be20824
PH
374110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3742
eb2c0248
PH
374311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3744 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3745 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3746 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3747
2a3eea10
PH
374812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3749 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3750 sender verification.
3751
375213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3753 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3754
23c7ff99
PH
375514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3756
4deaf07d
PH
375715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3758 connection timeout.
3759
926e1192
PH
376016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3761 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3762
650edc6f
PH
376317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3764 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3765
2c7db3f5
PH
376618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3767 information about exactly what failed.
3768
3d235903
PH
376919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3770
7c7ad977
PH
377120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3772 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3773 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3774
981756db
PH
377521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3776 It is now set to "smtps".
3777
d4eb88df
PH
377822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3779 ignore_target_hosts.
3780
378123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3782 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3783 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3784 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3785 "[x.x.x.x]".
3786
7d468ab8
PH
378724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3788 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3789 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3790
379125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3792 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3793 wake it up if nothing else does.
3794
62c0818f
PH
379526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3796 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3797 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3798 end up negative.
3799
26034054
PH
380027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3801 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3802
af66f652
PH
380328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3804
90af77f4
PH
380529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3806 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3807 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3808 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3809 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3810 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3811 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3812 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3813
d8ef3577
PH
381430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3815 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3816 than one IP address.
3817
5cb8cbc6
PH
381831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3819 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3820 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3821 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3822
14702f5b
PH
382332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3824 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3825 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3826 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3827 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3828 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3829
063b1e99
PH
383033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3831 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3832 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3833 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3834
652e1b65
PH
383534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3836 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3837 respected.
3838
6f0c9a4f
PH
383935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3840 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3841 $sender_host_address.
3842
33397d19
PH
384336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3844 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3845 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3846 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3847 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3848 very small.
3849
7bb56e1f
PH
385037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3851
3852 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3853 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3854
ea3bc19b
PH
3855 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3856 just the host names, not the priorities.
3857
3858 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3859 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3860 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3861
ea3bc19b 3862 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3863 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3864
0bcb2a0e
PH
386538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3866 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3867 domain.
3868
2ac0e484
PH
386939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3870
4e1fde53
PH
387140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3872 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3873
de365ded
PH
387441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3875 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3876 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3877
f05da2e8
PH
387842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3879
d6453af2
PH
388043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3881
f7b63901
PH
388244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3883
388445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3885 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3886 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3887 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3888 because the tests only now provoked it.
3889
a444213a
PH
389046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3891 (this can affect the format of dates).
3892
0ec020ea
PH
389347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3894 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3895 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3896 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3897
b1206957
PH
389848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3899
390049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3901 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3902 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3903 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3904
26dd5a95
PH
390550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3906 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3907 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3908
343b2385
PH
390951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3910 autoreply.
3911
1c5466b9
PH
391252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3913 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3914 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3915 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3916 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3917 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3918 is going on).
3919
55ee9ee3
PH
392053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3921 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3922 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3923 the line.
3924
d38f8232
PH
392554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3926 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3927 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3928
3929 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3930 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3931 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3932 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3933 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3934 so I produce this patch..."
3935
3295e65b
PH
3936 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3937 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3938 is not defined.
3939
7102e136
PH
394055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3941 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3942 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3943 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3944 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3945
3ca0ba97
PH
394656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3947
c2bcbe20
PH
394857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3949 long debug lines gets shown.
3950
18ce445d
PH
395158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3952 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3953
1f5b4c3d
PH
395459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3955
3956 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3957 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3958 of $primary_hostname.
3959
b975ba52
PH
396060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3961 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3962 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3963 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3964 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3965 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3966 by change 4.50/55 above.
3967
3968 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3969 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3970 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3971 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3972 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3973 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3974 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3975
397661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3977 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3978 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3979 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3980
17ffcae7
PH
398162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3982 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3983
d95f9fdb
PH
398463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3985 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3986 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3987 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3988 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3989
86b8287f
PH
399064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3991 This has been fixed.
3992
60dc5e56
PH
399365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3994 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3995 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3996 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3997 the caching.)
3998
533244af
PH
399966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4000
a5a28604
PH
400167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4002 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4003 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4004 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4005
7e634d24
PH
400668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4007 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4008
3e11c26b
PH
400969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4010 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4011 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4012
6729cf78
PH
401370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4014 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4015 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4016 message there.
4017
00f00ca5
PH
401871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4019 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4020 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4021
c9bdd01c
PH
402272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4023 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4024 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4025 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4026
d43194df
PH
402773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4028 during host lookups.
4029
fe5b5d0b
PH
403074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4031 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4032
4033 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4034
76a2d7ba
PH
403575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4036 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4037 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4038 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4039 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4040 background.
4041
404276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4043 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4044
04f7d5b9
PH
404577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4046 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4047 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4048
bc60667e
PH
404978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4050
bb6e88ff
PH
405179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4052 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4053 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4054 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4055 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4056 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4057 process earlier.
4058
1e70f85b
PH
405980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4060 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4061 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4062 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4063 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4064
406581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4066 tables).
4067
4e01f9d6
PH
406882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4069
1ee1cef2
PH
407083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4071 "vacation" handling.
4072
6e2b4ccc
PH
407384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4074 OS variants using glibc.
4075
8e669ac1
PH
407685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4077
495ae4b0 4078
bbe902f0
PH
4079----------------------------------------------------
4080See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4081----------------------------------------------------
4082
4083
4084Exim version 4.44
4085-----------------
4086
4087 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4088 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4089 transport
4090
4091 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4092 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4093 place.
4094
4095 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4096 filter fails to execute.
4097
4098 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4099 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4100 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4101 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4102 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4103
4104 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4105 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4106 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4107 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4108
4109 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4110 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4111 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4112 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4113 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4114
4115 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4116
4117 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4118 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4119 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4120 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4121
4122 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4123 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4124 sender verification.
4125
412610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4127 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4128
412911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4130 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4131
413212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4133 ignore_target_hosts.
4134
413513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4136 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4137 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4138 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4139 "[x.x.x.x]".
4140
414114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4142 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4143 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4144
414515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4146 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4147 wake it up if nothing else does.
4148
414916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4150 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4151 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4152 end up negative.
4153
415417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4155 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4156
ea3a6f44 415718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4158
415919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4160 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4161 empty pattern.
4162
416320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4164 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4165 one IP address.
4166
ea3a6f44
NM
416721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4168 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4169 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4170 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4171 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4172 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4173
ea3a6f44
NM
417422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4175 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4176 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4177
417823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4179 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4180 $sender_host_address.
4181
418224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4183
ea3a6f44
NM
418425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4185 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4186 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4187
418826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4189 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4190
ea3a6f44
NM
419127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4192 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4193
ea3a6f44
NM
419428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4195 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4196 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4197 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4198
419929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4200 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4201 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4202
ea3a6f44
NM
420330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4204 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4205 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4206 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4207
ea3a6f44
NM
420831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4209 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4210 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4211
ea3a6f44
NM
421231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4213 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4214
ea3a6f44
NM
421532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4216 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4217 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4218 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4219 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4220 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4221 is going on).
bbe902f0 4222
ea3a6f44
NM
422333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4224 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4225 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4226 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4227 CAN-2005-0021
4228
ea3a6f44
NM
422934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4230 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4231 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4232 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4233 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4234 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4235 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4236
4237 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4238 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4239 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4240 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4241 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4242 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4243 CAN-2005-0021
4244
ea3a6f44
NM
424535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4246 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4247 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4248 CAN-2005-0022
4249
ea3a6f44
NM
425036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4251 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4252 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4253 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4254 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4255
ea3a6f44
NM
425637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4257 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4258 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4259 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4260 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4261
ea3a6f44
NM
426238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4263 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4264 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4265 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4266 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4267
4268
495ae4b0
PH
4269Exim version 4.43
4270-----------------
4271
4272 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4273 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4274 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4275 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4276 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4277 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4278 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4279
4280 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4281 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4282 the delivery.
4283
4284 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4285
4286 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4287
4288 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4289 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4290 to local_scan().
4291
4292 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4293 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4294 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4295 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4296 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4297
4298 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4299 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4300
4301 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4302
4303 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4304
430510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4306 header_sender only.
4307
430811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4309 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4310
431112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4312 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4313 affecting debugging statements).
4314
431513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4316
431714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4318 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4319 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4320 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4321 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4322 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4323 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4324 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4325 after the received time, and all would be well.
4326
432715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4328 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4329 condition in an expansion string.
4330
433116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4332
433317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4334 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4335 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4336 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4337 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4338 job under whatever limits there are.
4339
434018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4341
434219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4343 space).
4344
434520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4346 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4347 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4348 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4349 return path is set.
4350
435121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4352 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4353 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4354 binary data in such strings.
4355
435622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4357
435823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4359 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4360 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4361 failure, which is pointless.
4362
436324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4364
436525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4366
436726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4368 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4369 Sender: header lines.
4370
437127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4372 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4373 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4374
437528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4376 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4377 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4378 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4379 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4380 happens.
4381
438229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4383 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4384 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4385 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4386 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4387
438830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4389 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4390 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4391 1024.
4392
439331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4394 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4395
439632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4397 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4398
439933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4400
440132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4402
440333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4404
440534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4406 syntax error.
4407
440835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4409
441036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4411
441237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4413 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4414 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4415 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4416
441738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4418 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4419
4420
4421Exim version 4.42
4422-----------------
4423
4424 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4425 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4426 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4427 it was not quoted.
4428 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4429 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4430 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4431 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4432 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4433 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4434
4435 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4436 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4437 verification failure".
4438
4439 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4440 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4441 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4442 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4443
4444 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4445 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4446 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4447 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4448 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4449 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4450 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4451 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4452 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4453 treated as a timeout.
4454
4455 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4456 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4457 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4458 not set for Exim filters).
4459
4460 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4461 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4462 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4463
4464 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4465
4466 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4467 try to make them clearer.
4468
4469 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4470 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4471
4472 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4473
4474 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4475
447610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4477 only the Cygwin environment.
4478
447911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4480 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4481 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4482 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4483 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4484
448512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4486 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4487 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4488 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4489 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4490 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4491 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4492
449313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4494 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4495
449614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4497
4498 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4499 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4500 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4501
4502 To: susanne@some.where
4503
4504 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4505 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4506 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4507 of addresses in From: header lines).
4508
4509 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4510 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4511 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4512
4513 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4514 treated as non-personal.
4515
4516 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4517 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4518
451915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4520
452116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4522
452317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4524 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4525 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4526
452718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4528 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4529
453019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4531 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4532 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4533 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4534 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4535 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4536
453720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4538 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4539 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4540 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4541 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4542 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4543 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4544 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4545
4546 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4547
454821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4549 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4550
455122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4552 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4553 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4554
455523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4556 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4557
455824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4559 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4560 rather than long int.
4561
456225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4563
456426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4565
4566
4567Exim version 4.41
4568-----------------
4569
4570 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4571 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4572 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4573 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4574 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4575 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4576
4577
4578Exim version 4.40
4579-----------------
4580
4581 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4582 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4583
4584 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4585 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4586 socklen_t is defined.
4587
4588 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4589 always exist.
4590
4591 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4592 configured.
4593
4594 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4595 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4596 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4597 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4598 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4599
4600 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4601 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4602 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4603 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4604
4605 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4606 of flapping under certain conditions.
4607
4608 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4609 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4610 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4611
4612 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4613
461410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4615
461611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4617 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4618 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4619 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4620
462112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4622 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4623 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4624 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4625 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4626 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4627 preserved with the message after it was received.
4628
462913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4630 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4631 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4632 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4633 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4634 test suite worked just fine.
4635
463614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4637 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4638 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4639
464015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4641 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4642 string.
4643
464416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4645 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4646 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4647 does not fully solve it.
4648
464917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4650 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4651 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4652 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4653 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4654
465518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4656 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4657 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4658
465919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4660 string, for example:
4661
4662 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4663
4664 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4665 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4666 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4667 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4668 the routers could not see them.
4669
467020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4671 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4672
467321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4674 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4675 output).
4676
467722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4678 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4679 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4680 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4681 that needed quoting.
4682
468323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4684 was not being matched caselessly.
4685
468624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4687 backslashes.
4688
468925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4690 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4691 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4692 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4693 when use_sender is false.
4694
469526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4696
469727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4698
469928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4700
470129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4702 the configuration file.
4703
470430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4705 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4706
470731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4708
470932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4710 bytes in the message body.
4711
471233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4713 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4714 delivery.
4715
471634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4717
471835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4719
472036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4721 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4722 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4723 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4724 another IP address.
4725
4726
4727Exim version 4.34
4728-----------------
4729
4730 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4731 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4732
4733 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4734 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4735 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4736 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4737 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4738
4739 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4740 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4741
4742 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4743 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4744 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4745
4746 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4747 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4748 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4749
4750 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4751 for routers.
4752
4753 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4754 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4755 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4756 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4757 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4758 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4759 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4760
4761
4762Exim version 4.33
4763-----------------
4764
4765 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4766 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4767 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4768 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4769 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4770 default (and expected) setting.
4771
4772 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4773 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4774 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4775 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4776
4777 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4778 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4779
4780 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4781 in domain lists.
4782
4783 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4784 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4785 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4786 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4787 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4788 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4789
4790 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4791 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4792 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4793
4794 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4795 part (NOT match_host).
4796
4797 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4798
4799 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4800 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4801 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4802 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4803 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4804 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4805 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4806 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4807 the same named file.
4808
480910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4810 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4811 when Exim is built.
4812
481311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4814 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4815 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4816 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4817 a host name.
4818
481912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4820 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4821 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4822
482313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4824
482514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4826
482715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4828
482916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4830 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4831
483217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4833 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4834 before starting the TLS session.
4835
483618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4837
483819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4839 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4840
484120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4842 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4843 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4844 colon in the middle).
4845
4846
4847Exim version 4.32
4848-----------------
4849
4850 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4851 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4852 multiple configurations are in use.
4853
4854 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4855 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4856 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4857 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4858 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4859 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4860
4861 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4862 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4863
4864 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4865 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4866 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4867
4868 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4869 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4870 occurs.
4871
4872 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4873 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4874
4875 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4876
4877 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4878 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4879
4880 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4881
4882 -prval:sval
4883
4884 is equivalent to
4885
4886 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4887
4888 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4889 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4890 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4891 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4892 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4893
489410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4895 Exim's behaviour:
4896
4897 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4898 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4899 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4900 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4901 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4902 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4903
4904 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4905 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4906 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4907 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4908 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4909 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4910 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4911 string.
4912
4913 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4914 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4915 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4916 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4917 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4918
491911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4920
492112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4922 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4923 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4924
492513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4926
492714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4928 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4929 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4930 information.
4931
493215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4933 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4934
493516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4936 Three changes have been made:
4937
4938 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4939 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4940 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4941 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4942 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4943
4944 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4945 been restored.
4946
4947 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4948 the modified behaviour.
4949
4950
4951Exim version 4.31
4952-----------------
4953
4954 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4955 Larry Rosenman.
4956
4957 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4958 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4959
4960 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4961 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4962 try to track down a specific problem.
4963
4964 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4965 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4966 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4967
4968 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4969 warning.
4970
4971 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4972 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4973 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4974 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4975 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4976 some earlier ones do not.
4977
4978 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4979
4980 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4981 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4982 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4983 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4984 address literals are enabled, of course).
4985
4986 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4987
498810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4989 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4990 by a command such as
4991
4992 exim -f "" ...
4993
4994 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4995
499611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4997
499812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4999 remained set. It is now erased.
5000
500113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5002 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5003
500414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5005 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5006 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5007 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5008 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5009 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5010 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5011 appropriate error code.
5012
501315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5014 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5015 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5016 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5017 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5018 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5019
502016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5021 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5022 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5023
502417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5025 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5026 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5027 terminate the header.
5028
502918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5030 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5031 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5032
503319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5034 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5035 (4.30/29). In particular:
5036
5037 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5038 imposed.
5039
5040 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5041 to write a maildirsize file.
5042
5043 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5044 the transport, the new value overrides.
5045
5046 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5047 count.
5048
504920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5050 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5051 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5052 space or a tab.
5053
505421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5055 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5056 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5057 the fallback hosts.
5058
505922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5060 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5061 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5062
506323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5064 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5065 using a union.
5066
506724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5068 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5069 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5070
507125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5072
507326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5074
507527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5076
507728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5078 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5079 become corrupted.
5080
508129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5082 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5083 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5084 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5085 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5086 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5087 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5088 too great.
5089
509030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5091 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5092 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5093 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5094 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5095 incorrectly.
5096
509731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5098 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5099 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5100 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5101 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5102 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5103 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5104 cached value only when the same options are set.
5105
510632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5107
510833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5109 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5110 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5111 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5112 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5113
511434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5115 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5116 it is clearly obsolete.
5117
511835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5119 transport.
5120
512136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5122 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5123 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5124 times.
5125
512637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5127 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5128 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5129 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5130 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5131
513238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5133 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5134 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5135 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5136
513739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5138
5139 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5140
5141 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5142 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5143 2^31.
5144
514540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5146 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5147 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5148 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5149 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5150 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5151 $localpart_data.
5152
515341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5154 with the -f command-line option.
5155
515642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5157 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5158 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5159 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5160 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5161 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5162
516343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5164 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5165 line.
5166
516744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5168 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5169 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5170 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5171 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5172 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5173 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5174 buffer is too small.
5175
517645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5177 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5178
517946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5180 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5181 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5182 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5183 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5184 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5185 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5186 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5187 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5188
518947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5190 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5191 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5192
519348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5194 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5195 ACL").
5196
519749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5198 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5199 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5200 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5201 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5202
520350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5204 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5205 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5206 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5207 is set.
5208
520951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5210
521152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5212
521353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5214 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5215
521654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5217 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5218 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5219
522055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5221 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5222 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5223 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5224 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5225
522656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5227 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5228 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5229 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5230 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5231 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5232 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5233
523457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5235 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5236 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5237 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5238 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5239 the test of how many are available.
5240
524158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5242 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5243 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5244 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5245 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5246 new message is started.
5247
524859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5249 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5250
525160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5252 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5253
525461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5255 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5256 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5257 is no long logged.
5258
525962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5260 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5261 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5262 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5263 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5264 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5265 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5266
526763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5268 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5269 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5270 interpreted as octal.
5271
527264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5273 setting.
5274
527565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5276 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5277 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5278 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5279 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5280 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5281
528266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5283 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5284 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5285 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5286
5287 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5288 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5289 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5290 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5291
5292 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5293 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5294 is a bug fix.
5295
5296 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5297 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5298
529967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5300
530168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5302 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5303 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5304 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5305
530669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5307 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5308 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5309 supplied", which is not helpful.
5310
531170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5312 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5313 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5314
531571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5316 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5317 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5318 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5319 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5320 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5321 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5322 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5323
532472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5325 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5326 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5327 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5328 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5329
533073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5331 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5332 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5333 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5334 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5335 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5336
533774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5338 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5339 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5340
534175. Added write_rejectlog option.
5342
534376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5344 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5345 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5346 variables.
5347
534877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5349
535078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5351 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5352 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5353 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5354 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5355 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5356 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5357 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5358
535979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5360 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5361 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5362 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5363 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5364
536580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5366 Haardt.
5367
536881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5369 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5370 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5371 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5372 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5373 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5374 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5375 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5376 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5377
5378
5379Exim version 4.30
5380-----------------
5381
5382 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5383 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5384 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5385
5386 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5387 fixed.
5388
5389 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5390 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5391 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5392
5393 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5394 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5395 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5396 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5397 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5398 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5399
5400 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5401 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5402 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5403 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5404 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5405 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5406 the Exim test suite.
5407
5408 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5409 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5410 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5411 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5412
5413 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5414 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5415 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5416 specify it in this variable.
5417
5418 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5419 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5420 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5421 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5422
5423 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5424 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5425 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5426 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5427
5428 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5429 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5430 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5431 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5432 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5433
5434 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5435
543610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5437 they are logged.
5438
543911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5440 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5441 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5442 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5443 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5444
544512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5446 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5447
544813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5449 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5450 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5451 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5452 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5453
545414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5455 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5456
545715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5458 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5459 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5460
546116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5462 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5463
546417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5465 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5466
546718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5468 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5469 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5470
547119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5472 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5473
547420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5475 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5476 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5477 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5478
547921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5480
548122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5482 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5483 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5484 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5485
548623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5487
548824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5489 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5490
549125. Added .include_if_exists.
5492
549326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5494 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5495 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5496 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5497 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5498 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5499
550027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5501
550228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5503 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5504 this.
5505
550629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5507
550830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5509 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5510
5511 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5512 550 Sender verify failed
5513
5514 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5515 the final line of the response.
5516
551731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5518 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5519 all other user lookups.
5520
552132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5522 delivery time.
5523
552433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5525 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5526 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5527 result into an int without checking.
5528
552934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5530 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5531 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5532
553335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5534 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5535 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5536 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5537
553836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5539 correctly.
5540
554137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5542 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5543
554438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5545 to the empty sender.
5546
554739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5548 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5549 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5550 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5551 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5552 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5553 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5554 panic log.
5555
555640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5557 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5558 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5559 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5560 used.
5561
556241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5563 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5564
556542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5566 timestamps.
5567
556843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5569 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5570
557144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5572
557345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5574 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5575 logs.
5576
557746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5578 as soon as it is encountered.
5579
558047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5581
558248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5583 rewritten to "<>".
5584
558549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5586 recognizes a tab character.
5587
558850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5589 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5590 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5591 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5592
559351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5594
559552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5596 crash.
5597
559853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5599
560054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5601
560255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5603 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5604 2822.
5605
560656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5607 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5608 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5609 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5610 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5611
561257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5613 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5614
561558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5616 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5617 list (.included file names were always shown).
5618
561959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5620 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5621 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5622 root at that time.
5623
562460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5625 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5626
562761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5628
562962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5630
563163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5632
563364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5634 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5635 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5636 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5637 failures to open the logs.
5638
563965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5640 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5641 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5642 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5643 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5644 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5645 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5646
5647
5648Exim version 4.24
5649-----------------
5650
5651 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5652 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5653 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5654 change 4.23/1.
5655
5656 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5657 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5658 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5659
5660 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5661 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5662 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5663
5664 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5665 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5666 causing some misleading effects.
5667
5668 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5669 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5670 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5671
5672 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5673 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5674 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5675 queue-runner function directly.
5676
5677
5678Exim version 4.23
5679-----------------
5680
5681 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5682 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5683
5684 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5685 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5686 was always written to the default place.
5687
5688 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5689 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5690 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5691
5692 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5693
5694 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5695
5696 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5697 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5698 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5699
5700 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5701 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5702 must start.
5703
5704 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5705 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5706 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5707
5708 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5709 command line option is disabled.
5710
5711 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5712 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5713
5714 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5715
5716 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5717
5718 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5719 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5720
572110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5722
572311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5724 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5725 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5726 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5727 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5728 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5729
573012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5731 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5732 timeout.
5733
573413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5735 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5736
573714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5738 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5739
574015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5741 received was valid base64.
5742
574316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5744 name of the variable that was being set.
5745
574617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5747
574818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5749 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5750 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5751 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5752 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5753 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5754
575519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5756
575720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5758 nor realm was specified.
5759
576021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5761 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5762 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5763 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5764
576522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5766 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5767 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5768
576923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5770 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5771 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5772
577324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5774 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5775 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5776 some systems use these upper case variants.
5777
577825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5779 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5780 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5781 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5782
578326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5784
578527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5786 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5787
578828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5789 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5790 expansion variable.
5791
579229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5793
579430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5795 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5796 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5797 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5798
579931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5800 using it.
5801
580232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5803 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5804 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5805
580633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5807 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5808
580934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5810 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5811 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5812 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5813
581435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5815 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5816 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5817
581836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5819
582037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5821 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5822 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5823 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5824 aborted.
5825
582638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5827 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5828 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5829
583039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5831
583240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5833 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5834
583541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5836 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5837
583842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5839 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5840 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5841 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5842 when emails are that large.
5843
5844
5845
5846Exim version 4.22
5847-----------------
5848
5849 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5850 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5851
5852 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5853 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5854 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5855
5856 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5857 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5858 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5859
5860 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5861 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5862 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5863 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5864 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5865
5866 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5867 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5868 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5869 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5870 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5871 ever.
5872
5873 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5874 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5875 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5876 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5877 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5878 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5879 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5880 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5881 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5882 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5883 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5884 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5885 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5886 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5887
5888 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5889 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5890 parameterised it.
5891
5892 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5893 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5894 error should be diagnosed.
5895
5896 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5897 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5898 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5899 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5900 appeared instead of "NULL".
5901
590210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5903 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5904 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5905 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5906 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5907 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5908 proceeds).
5909
5910 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5911 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5912 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5913
5914
5915Exim version 4.21
5916-----------------
5917
5918 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5919 or receiver verification errors.
5920
5921 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5922 name.
5923
5924 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5925 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5926 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5927 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5928
5929 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5930 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5931 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5932 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5933 shouldn't happen again.
5934
5935 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5936 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5937 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5938
5939 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5940 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5941
5942 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5943
5944 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5945 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5946
5947 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5948 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5949 RFC.
5950
595110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5952 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5953 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5954
595511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5956 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5957 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5958 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5959
596012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5961 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5962 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5963 to define what should happen).
5964
596513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5966 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5967 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5968
596914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5970
597115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5972
597316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5974 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5975
597617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5977 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5978 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5979 structure in all cases.
5980
5981 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5982 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5983 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5984 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5985
598618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5987 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5988 domain name.
5989
599019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5991 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5992
599320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5994 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5995
599621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5997 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5998 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5999
600022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6001 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6002 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6003
600423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6005 the book and for uniformity.
6006
600724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6008
600925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6010 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6011 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6012 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6013 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6014 non-existent command as the problem.
6015
601626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6017 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6018 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6019
602027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6021
602228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6023 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6024 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6025
602629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6027 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6028 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6029 timestamps using strftime().
6030
603130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6032 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6033
603432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6035 transport-time rewrites.
6036
603733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6038 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6039 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6040 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6041
604234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6043 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6044
604535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6046 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6047 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6048 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6049 comma and a space.
6050
605136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6052 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6053 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6054 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6055 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6056 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6057 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6058
605937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6060 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6061 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6062 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6063 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6064
606538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6066 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6067 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6068 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6069 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6070 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6071 remaining text gets split now.
6072
607339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6074 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6075 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6076 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6077
607840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6079 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6080 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6081 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6082 $return_path.
6083
608441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6085 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6086 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6087 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6088 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6089 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6090 passed through if needed.
6091
609242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6093 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6094 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6095 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6096 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6097 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6098
609943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6100 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6101 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6102 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6103 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6104
610544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6106 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6107 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6108 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6109 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6110
611145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6112 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6113 noticed.
6114
611546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6116 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6117 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6118 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6119 mayhem of various kinds.
6120
612147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6122 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6123 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6124 the right test for positive values.
6125
612648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6127 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6128 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6129 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6130 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6131 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6132 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6133 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6134 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6135 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6136 envelope.
6137
613849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6139 module.
6140
614150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6142 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6143 forbidding it.
6144
614551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6146 the existing equality matching.
6147
614852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6149 dealing with inode numbers.
6150
615153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6152 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6153 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6154
615554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6156 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6157 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6158 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6159 local_scan().
6160
616155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6162 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6163 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6164 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6165 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6166 relay addresses has also been removed.
6167
616856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6169
617057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6171 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6172 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6173
617458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6175 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6176 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6177 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6178 processing applies to CR:
6179
6180 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6181 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6182
6183 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6184 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6185 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6186 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6187
618859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6189 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6190 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6191
619260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6193 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6194 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6195 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6196 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6197 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6198 arisen.
6199
620061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6201 program routers.
6202
620362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6204 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6205 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6206 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6207 adds:
6208
6209 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6210
6211 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6212
6213 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6214
621563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6216 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6217 not considered personal.
6218
621964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6220
622165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6222
622366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6224
622567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6226 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6227 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6228 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6229 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6230 header lines, and spool format errors.
6231
623268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6233 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6234 for more flexibility.
6235
623669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6237 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6238 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6239
624070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6241 Sabourenkov.
6242
624371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6244 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6245 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6246 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6247 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6248 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6249 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6250 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6251 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6252
625372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6254 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6255 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6256 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6257 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6258 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6259 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6260
626173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6262 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6263 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6264
626574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6266 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6267 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6268 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6269 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6270 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6271 instead of killing the process with assert().
6272
627375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6274 than Unicode encoding.
6275
627676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6277 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6278 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6279 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6280
628177. Added process_log_path.
6282
628378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6284 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6285
628679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6287 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6288
628980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6290 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6291 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6292
629381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6294 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6295 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6296 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6297 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6298 were applied:
6299
6300 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6301 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6302 as invalid.
6303
630482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6305 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6306 they will be used during message reception.
6307
6308
6309Exim version 4.20
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6311
6312The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6313
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