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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Since Exim version 4.90
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11GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
12 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
13 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
14 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
15 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
16 be defined in redis_servers.
17
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18JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
19 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
20 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
21 extant use locations.
22
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23JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
24 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
25
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26JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
27 Previously only the last row was returned.
28
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29JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
30 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
31 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
32 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
33 input.
34
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35JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
36 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
37 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
38 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
39 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
40 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
41 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
42 Main pool for expansions.
43 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
44 active in the testsuite.
45 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
46
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47JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
48 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
49 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
50 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
51 round-robin DNS.
52
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53JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
54 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
55 failure response.
56
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57JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
58 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
59 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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60
61JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
62 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
63 ClamAV interface method is removed.
c11d665d 64
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65JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
66 rows affected is given instead).
67
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68JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
69 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
70
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71JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
72 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
73 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
74 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
75 for all multi-message initiating connections.
76
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77JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
78 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
79 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
80
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81JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
82 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
83 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
84 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
85 separate.
86
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87JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
88 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
89 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
90 fake-reject.
91
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92HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
93
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94JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
95 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
96
aab9a843 97PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 98 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 99 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 100
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101JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
102 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
103 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
104 and send a quit.
105
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106JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
107 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
108
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109JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
110 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
111 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
112
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113JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
114 for the build is renamed.
115
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116JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
117 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
118 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
119
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120JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
121 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
122 result replacing the original.
123
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124JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
125 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
126 and the resources needed to be freed.
127
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128JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
129
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130JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
131 was not propagated.
132
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133JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
134 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
135 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
136 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
137
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138JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
139 length value. Previously this would segfault.
140
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141HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
142 newer versions of the scanner.
143
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144JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
145 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
146 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
147 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
4b4856ff 148 Do the same for the queue-runner loop, for variables set from spool
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149 message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for certain
150 variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 151
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152JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
153 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
154 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
155 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
156 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
157 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
158 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
159 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
160 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
161 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
162
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163JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
164 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
165
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166JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
167
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171
172JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
173 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
174 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
175 pairs of long lines into single ones.
176
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177PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
178 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
179
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180JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
181 This permits better logging.
182
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183JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
184 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
185 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
186 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
187 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 188 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 189
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190JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
191 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
192 "exiwhat" output.
193
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194PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
195 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
196 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
197
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198JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
199 than 255 are no longer allowed.
200
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201JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
202 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
203 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
204 client, there is no benefit for these.
205 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
206 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
207 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
208 is used (3.2.4 +).
209
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210PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
211 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
212
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213JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
214 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
215 erroneously found still-pending ones.
216
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217JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
218 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
219
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220JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
221 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
222 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
223 signature and again for transmission.
224
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225JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
226 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 227 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 228
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229JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
230 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
231 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
232 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
233 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
234 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
235 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
236
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237JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
238 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
239 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 240 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 241
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242PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
243 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
244 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
245 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
246 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
247 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
248 processing options.
249
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250JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
251 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
252 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
253 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
254 connections.
925ac8e4 255
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256PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
257 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
258 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
259 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
260 versions.
261
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262JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
263 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
264 inaccessible.
265
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266JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
267 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
268 banner-time rejection.
269
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270JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
271 callout/hold.
272
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273PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
274 is the name of a transport.
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275 Fixes bug 2140.
276
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277HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
278
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279JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
280 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
281
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282JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
283 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
284 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
285 during compilation.
286
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287JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
288 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
289 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 290 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 291
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292JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
293 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
294 initial verify call returned a defer.
295
ad1a76fe 296JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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297 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
298
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299JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
300 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
301
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302JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
303 if present. Previously it was ignored.
304
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305JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
306 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
307
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308JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
309 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
310 extensible.
311
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312PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
313 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
314
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315PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
316 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
317 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
318
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319JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
320 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
321 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
322 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
323
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324HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
325 and confused the parent.
326
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327JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
328 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
329
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330JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
331 for log purposes.
332
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333JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
334 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
335 out-of-order delivery.
336
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337JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
338 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
339 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
340 error for the HELO.
341
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342JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
343 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
344 desynchronisation.
345
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346JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
347 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
348 one run was done. Bug 2189.
349
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350JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
351 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
352 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
353 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
354 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
355 message is still "Temporary local problem".
356
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357JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
358 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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359 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
360
361HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
362 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
363 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
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365JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
366 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
367 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
368 though a different problem.
369
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9427e879 374JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 375 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 376
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377JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
378
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379PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
380 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
381
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382JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
383 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
384
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385JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
386 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
387 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
388 before acknowledging the chunk.
389
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390PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
391 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
392 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
393
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394JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
395 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
396 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
397 should.
398
399JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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400 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
401 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 403JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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404 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
405
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406JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
407 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
408 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
409 body hash calculated value.
410
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411JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
412 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
413 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
414
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415JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
416
417JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
418 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
419
420JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
421 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
422 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
423
424JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
425 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
426 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
427 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
428 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
429 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
430
431JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
432 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
433 past that check, despite the cost.
434
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435JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
436 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
437 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
438
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439PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
440 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
441 TLS library to consume.
442
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443PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
444
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445PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
446
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447JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
448 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
449 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
450 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
451 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
452 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
453 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
454
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455PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
456
457PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
458
459PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
460 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
461 should be warning-free.
462
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463JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
464
465HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
466 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
467
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468HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
469 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
470 general solution here.
471
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472PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
473 already-broken messages in the queue.
474
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475JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
476
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477JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
478
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483JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
484 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 485
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486JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
487 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
488 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
489
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490JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
491 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
492 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
493 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
494 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
495 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
496 if one fails this test.
497 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
498 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
499
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500JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
501 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
502
23bb6982 503JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 504 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 505
0bd1b1ed 506JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 507 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 508
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509JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
510 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
511
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512JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
513 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
514
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515JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
516
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517JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
518 certificate).
519
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520JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
521 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
522 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
523 connection after a verify cache hit.
524 Do not update it with the verify result either.
525
526JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
527 when routing results in more than one destination address.
528
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529JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
530 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
531 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
532 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
533 when the cutthrough connection is made).
534
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535JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
536 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
537
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538JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
539 Previously they were not counted.
540
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541JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
542 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
543 that needed the lookup.
544
4c04137d 545JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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546 distinguished as "(=".
547
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548JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
549 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
550
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551JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
552
553JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
554 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 555
4c04137d 556JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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557 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
558
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559JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
560 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
561 compatible.
562
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563JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
564 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
565 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
566 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
567
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568JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
569
f59aaaaa 570JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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571 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
572 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 573
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574JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
575 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
576 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
577 be lost.
578
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579JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
580 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
581 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
582 itself :(
583
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584JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
585 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
586 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
587
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588JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
589 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
590 options.
591
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592JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
593
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594PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
595 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
596
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597PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
598 are not in the system include path.
599
ad7fc6eb 600JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 601 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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602 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
603 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 604
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605JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
606 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
607 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
608
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609JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
610
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611HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
612 an incoming connection.
613
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614HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
615 to rspamd.
616
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617HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
618 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 619
87cb4a16 620JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 621 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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627JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
628 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
629 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
630 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 631
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632TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
633 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
634
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635TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
636 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
637 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
638 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
639 outgoing I= field.
640
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641JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
642 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
643 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
644 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
645 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
646 check on the next write.
647
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648HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
649 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
650 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
651 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
652 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
653
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654JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
655 mime_regex ACL conditions.
656
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657JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
658 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
659 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
660
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661JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
662 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
663 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
664 an authenticate fail is not an error.
665
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666HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
667 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
668
4c04137d 669JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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670 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
671
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672JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
673 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
674 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
675 distinct.
676
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677JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
678
679JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
680
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681JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
682
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683JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
684 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
685
98b98887 686JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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687 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
688
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689JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
690
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691JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
692 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
693
694JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
695
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696JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
697 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
698
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699JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
700
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701JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
702 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 703 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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704 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
705 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
706 they will retry in-clear.
707 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
708 at installation time.
709
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710HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
711 with the $config_file variable.
712
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713JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
714 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
715 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
716 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 717 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 718
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719GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
720 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
721 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
722 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
723 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
724
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725JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
726
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727JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
728 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
729 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
730 list order is no longer honoured.
731
4c04137d 732JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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733 for DKIM processing.
734
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735JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
736 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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738JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
739 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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740 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
741 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 742
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743JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
744 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
745
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746JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
747 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
748
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749JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
750 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
751
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752JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
753
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754JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
755 cached by the daemon.
756
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757JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
758 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
759
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760JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
761 keys are given for lookup.
762
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763JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
764 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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765 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
766 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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768JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
769 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
770 server-side so match that on older versions.
771
07c73177 772JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 773 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 774 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 775
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776JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
777 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
778
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779JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
780 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
781 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 782 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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783 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
784 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
785 initial truncated version.
786
ab9152ff 787JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 788
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789JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
790
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791JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
792 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
793
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794JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
795
bc3c7bb7 796HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 797
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798JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
799 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
800 induced overflows.
801
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802JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
803 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
804 stage.
805
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806JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
807 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
808
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809JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
810 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
811 former class.
812
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813JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
814 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
815 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
816
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817JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
818 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
819 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
820 extraction. Accept either.
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826JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
827 expanded.
828
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829JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
830
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831JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
832 it.
833
01a4a5c5 834JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 835 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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836 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
837 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
838
cb1d7830 839JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 840 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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841 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
842
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844 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
845 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
846 TLS connections
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848JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
849 sites use this now.
850
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851JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
852 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
853 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
854 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
855 have a dsn_lasthop option.
856
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857JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
858 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 859 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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861JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
862
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863JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
864 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
865
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866JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
867 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
868
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869JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
870 /defer_ok option.
871
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872JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
873 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
874
fd4d8871 875JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 876 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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877 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
878
879JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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880 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
881 specify a port-range.
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883JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
884 timeout value per server.
885
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886JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
887 now have the list separator specified.
888
8a512ed5 889JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 890 option values.
8a512ed5 891
82c0c8ea 892JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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893 under OpenSSL.
894
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895JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
896
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897JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
898 rather than the verbs used.
899
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900JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
901 from 255 to 1024 chars.
902
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903JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
904
cfab9d68 905HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 906 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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908JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
909 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
910
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911HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
912 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
913
4c04137d 914JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 915
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916JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
917
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918JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
919 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 920 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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921 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
922
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923JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
924
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925JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
926 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
927
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928JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
929 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
930
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931JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
932
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933JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
934
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935JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
936
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937JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
938 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
939
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940JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
941 added for tls authenticator.
942
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944
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949TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
950 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
951 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
952 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
953 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
954 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
955 the script parsing/test process like normal.
956
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957TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
958 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
959 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
960 function when detected.
961
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962JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
963 cause callback expansion.
964
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965TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
966 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
967 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
968 instead of bool when processing it.
969
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971 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
972
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973JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
974
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975JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
976
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977TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
978
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979TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
980 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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982JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
983 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
984 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
985 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 986 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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987 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
988
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989JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
990 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
991 exceeded it.
992
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993JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
994 version 3.3.6 or later.
995
4c04137d 996JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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997 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
998 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 999 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1000 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1001 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1002 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1003
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1004TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1005 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1006
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1007JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1008 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1009 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1010 matches.
1011
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1012JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1013 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1014 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1015
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1016JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1017 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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1018
1019JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1020 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1021 syntax errors.
1022
3394b36a 1023JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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1024
1025JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1026 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1027
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1028TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1029 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1030 tarball.
1031
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1032JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1033
4c04137d 1034JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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1035 Bug 1561.
1036
1037JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1038 output list separator was used.
1039
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1043TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1044 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1045 return.
1f0ebb98 1046
a612424f 1047JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1048 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1049
1050JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1051
1052TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1053 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1054
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1058
1059TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1060
1061 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1062 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1063 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1064 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1065 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1066 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1067
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1068TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1069 utilities have not been installed.
1070
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1071JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1072 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1073
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1074TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1075 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1076
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1077TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1078 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1079 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1080 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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1082JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1083
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1084TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1085 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1086
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1087PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1088 not dns_use_dnssec.
1089
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1090JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1091
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1092TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1093 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1094 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1095
8ddef691 1096TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1097 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1098 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1099 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1100 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1101 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1102
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1103JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1104
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1105JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1106 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1107
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1108JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1109 failed delivery.
1110
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1111JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1112
511a6c14 1113JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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1114
1115JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1116 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1117
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1118JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1119 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1120
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1121TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1122
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1123JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1124
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1125JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1126 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1127
1128 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1129 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1130 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1131
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1132TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1133 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1134 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1135 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1136
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1137JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1138
8c51eead 1139JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1140 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1141 lookup).
8c51eead 1142
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1143TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1144 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1145 Schlichting.
35aba663 1146
fd3b6a4a 1147JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1148 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1149
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1150TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1151 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1152
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1153JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1154
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1155TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1156 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1157 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1158
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1159JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1160 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1161
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1162JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1163 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1164 hosts_request_ocsp.
1165
ed3bba5f 1166JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1167 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1168 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1169
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1170JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1171
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1172TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1173 Christian Aistleitner.
1174
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1175JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1176
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1177TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1178 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1179
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1180JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1181 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1182
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1183JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1184 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1185
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1186TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1187 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1188
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1189TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1190 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1191
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1192TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1193 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1194 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1195
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1196JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1197
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1198PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1199 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1200 Jasper Wallace.
1201
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1202JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1203
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1204TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1205 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1206 CVE-2014-2972
1207
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1212PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1213
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1214PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1215 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1216
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1217PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1218 by GnuTLS.
1219
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1220PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1221 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1222 routines.
1223
13363eba 1224PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1225
66645890 1226PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1227 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1228 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1229 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1230 using channel bindings instead).
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a3fb9793 1232PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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1233 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1234 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1235 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1236 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1237 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1238
d27f98fe 1239TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1240
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1241TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1242
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1243TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1244 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1245
ae0e32ee 1246TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1247 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1248 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1249
1250TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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1252TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1253
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1254TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1255 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1256
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1257JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1258
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1259JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1260
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1261PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1262
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1263NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1264 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1265
585121e2 1266JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1267
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1268PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1269 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1270 function.
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1272PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1273 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1274
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1275JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1276 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1277 "acl = name arg..."
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1279JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1280
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1281JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1282
ea722490 1283JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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1284 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1285
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1286JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1287 Bugzilla 884.
1288
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1289JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1290 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1291
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1292JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1293 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1294
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1295PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1296 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1297 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
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1299JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1300 authenticators.
1301
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1302JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1303 for control.
1304
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1305PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1306
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1307PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1308 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1309 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1310 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1311
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1312TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1313
1314 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1315 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1316 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1317 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1318 the retry rules.
1319
1320 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1321 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1322 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1323
1324 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1325 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1326 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1327 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1328
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1329 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1330 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1331 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1332 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1333 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1334 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1335 delivery, as in LMTP.
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1336
1337 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1338 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1339
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1340TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1341
1342 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1343
1344 Resent-From: f
1345
1346 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1347 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1348 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1349 username as equal to the username.
1350
1351 This change corrects that bug.
1352
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1353GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1354 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1355 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1356
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1357TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1358
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1359PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1360 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1361 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1362 NULL dereference and crash.
1363
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1364JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1365
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1366PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1367 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1368 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1369
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1370SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1371
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1372JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1373 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1374 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1375 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1376 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1377 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1378 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1379 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
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1380 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1381 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1382 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1383
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1384PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1385 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1386
ff284120
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1387PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1388 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1389 Bugzilla 880.
1390
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1391PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1392 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1393 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1394 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1395 an empty string is now equivalent.
1396
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1397PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1398 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1399 not performing validation itself.
1400
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1401PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1402 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1403
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1404JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1405 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1406
4c04137d 1407TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1408
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1409PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1410 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1411 other false fix of the same issue.
1412 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1413 Bugzilla 1363.
1414
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1415PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1416 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1417
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1418PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1419 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1420 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1421
f4c1088b
PP
1422PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1423 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1424 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1425
c5c2182f
PP
1426TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1427
73431ca9
JH
1428JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1429
2d07a215
TL
1430TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1431 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1432
a30a8861
TL
1433TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1434 Alexander Miroch.
1435
33382dd9
TL
1436TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1437 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1438 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1439 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1440 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1441
046172e6
TL
1442TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1443 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1444
581d7bee 1445TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1446 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1447 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1448
1449TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1450 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1451 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1452 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1453
237b2cf2
TL
1454TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1455
9fc5a352
TL
1456TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1457 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1458 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1459
b10e4ec2
TL
1460TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1461
e2cebd74
TL
1462TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1463 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1464 interaction.
1465
1466TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1467 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1468
2519e60d
TL
1469TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1470 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1471
e78e6ecf 1472
4263f395
PP
1473Exim version 4.80.1
1474-------------------
1475
1476PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1477 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1478 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1479
ea722490 1480
b1770b6e 1481Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1482-----------------
1483
1484PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1485 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1486 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1487
23c7e742
NM
1488NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1489
b322aac8
NM
1490NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1491 improved.
1492
4a891427
NM
1493NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1494
c1e794ba 1495PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1496
97753960
PP
1497PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1498
1499PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1500 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1501
df6303fa
PP
1502PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1503 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1504
7e6a8985
PP
1505PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1506 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1507
f1e05cc7 1508PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1509 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1510 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1511
4c287009
PP
1512PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1513
b98bb9ac
PP
1514PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1515 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1516
4a6a987a
PP
1517PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1518
c45dd180 1519PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1520
7db8d074
PP
1521PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1522 non-compliant senders.
1523 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1524
eae0036b 1525NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1526 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1527 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1528
dec5017e
PP
1529PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1530 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1531 in spool file corruption.
1532
c80c5570
PP
1533PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1534 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1535 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1536 "Got SSL error 2".
1537
076b11e2
PP
1538TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1539 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1540 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1541
5407bfff
JH
1542JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1543 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1544
9e45c72b
PP
1545JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1546
e74376d8
PP
1547PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1548 diagnostics.
1549 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1550
4c04137d 1551PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1552 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1553 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1554
7be682ca
PP
1555PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1556 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1557 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1558 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1559
ef840681
PP
1560PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1561 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1562
5bfb4cdf
PP
1563PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1564 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1565 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1566 resolver implementation change.
1567
c6e95d22
PP
1568PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1569 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1570
9cbad13b
PP
1571PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1572
9ee44efb
PP
1573PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1574
6a6084f8
PP
1575PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1576 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1577
12dd53c7
PP
1578PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1579 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1580
9e45c72b 1581JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1582 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1583
17c76198
PP
1584PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1585 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1586 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1587 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1588 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1589
53947857 1590PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1591
eae0036b 1592PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1593 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1594 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1595
9e45c72b 1596JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1597
7390e768
PP
1598PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1599 read-only, out of scope).
1600 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1601
08488c86
PP
1602PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1603 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1604 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1605 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1606
6475bd82
PP
1607PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1608
81f91683
PP
1609PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1610 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1611 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1612 real issues in debug logging.
1613
5779e6aa
PP
1614PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1615 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1616
3375e053
PP
1617PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1618 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1619 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1620
1621PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1622 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1623 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1624 problems.
3375e053 1625
9d26b8c0
PP
1626PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1627 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1628
57eb9e91 1629PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1630 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1631 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1632 needs to override this, it can.
1633
16880d1a
PP
1634PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1635 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1636 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1637
a799883d
PP
1638PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1639 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1640 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1641 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1642
3ecab157 1643PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1644
0599f9cf 1645
867fcbf5
PP
1646Exim version 4.77
1647-----------------
1648
1649PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1650 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1651
f1a29782
TF
1652TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1653
ab42bd23
TK
1654TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1655 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1656
0ca0cf52
TF
1657TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1658 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1659
921b12ca
TF
1660TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1661 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1662 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1663
1664 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1665 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1666 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1667 not safe for signals.
1668
1669 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1670 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1671 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1672 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1673 exiwhat.
1674
c99ce5c9
TF
1675TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1676
1677 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1678 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1679 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1680 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1681 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1682
1683 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1684 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1685 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1686 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1687 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1688 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1689
1690 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1691 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1692 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1693 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1694
1695 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1696 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1697 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1698 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1699
1700 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1701 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1702 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1703 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1704 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1705 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1706 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1707 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1708 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1709
1710 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1711 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1712 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1713 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1714
1715 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1716 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1717 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1718 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1719 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1720 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1721 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1722 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1723 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1724 details in the main documentation.
1725
3634fc25
TF
1726TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1727
792e8a19
TF
1728TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1729
5901f0ab
TF
1730TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1731 repository when doing development or release builds.
1732
7f2a2a43
PP
1733PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1734 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1735
061b7ebd
PP
1736PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1737 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1738 Bugzilla 97.
1739
e12f8c32
PP
1740PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1741
9e949f00 1742PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1743 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1744
1745PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1746 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1747
555ae6af 1748PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1749 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1750
1751PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1752 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1753
6f7fe114
PP
1754PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1755 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1756
c566dd90
PP
1757PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1758 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1759 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1760 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1761
d6cc7c78 1762PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1763 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1764 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1765
0d0e4455
PP
1766PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1767
3399bb60 1768PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1769
1770PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1771 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1772
0ca0cf52 1773
10906672
PP
1774Exim version 4.76
1775-----------------
1776
1777PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1778
754a0503
PP
1779PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1780 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1781
c0c7b2da
PP
1782PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1783
e97d1f08
PP
1784PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1785
084c1d8c
PP
1786PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1787 Bugzilla 1098.
1788
4e7ee012
PP
1789PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1790 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1791
c8d52a00
PP
1792TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1793 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1794
54e7ce4a
PP
1795PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1796 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1797
5ee6f336
PP
1798PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1799 Bugzilla 1104.
1800
c8d52a00 1801TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1802 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1803
1804TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1805 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1806 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1807 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1808
1809PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1810 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1811
10906672 1812
aa097c4c
NM
1813Exim version 4.75
1814-----------------
1815
4c04137d 1816NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1817 Bugzilla 1073
1818
7f3d9eff
TF
1819TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1820 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1821 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1822
159f52d2
TF
1823TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1824 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1825
0cc9542a
PP
1826PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1827 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1828 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1829
f7274286
PP
1830PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1831 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1832
7b797365
PP
1833PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1834 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1835
caacae52
NM
1836NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1837 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1838
09dcaba9
NM
1839NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1840 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1841
bc19a55b
PP
1842PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1843 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1844
bd4c9759
NM
1845NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1846 Fixes bug 943.
1847
b72aab72
PP
1848PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1849 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1850
2fe76745
PP
1851PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1852 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1853
76aa570c
PP
1854PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1855 SQL string expansion failure details.
1856 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1857
f1e5fef5
PP
1858PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1859 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1860
4d805ee9
PP
1861PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1862 extern declarations in function scope.
1863 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1864
cd59ab18
PP
1865PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1866 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1867 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1868 a kernel bug).
1869
332f5cf3
PP
1870PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1871 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1872
29cfeb94
PP
1873PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1874 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1875
660242ad
PP
1876PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1877 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1878
bc4bc4c5
PP
1879PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1880 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1881
2e64baa9
NM
1882NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1883 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1884 Dennis Davis.
1885
4c04137d 1886PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1887
6bac1a9a
PP
1888PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1889
552193f0
NM
1890NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1891 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1892
1b587e48
TF
1893TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1894 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1895
aa097c4c 1896
8c07b69f
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1897Exim version 4.74
1898-----------------
1899
1900TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1901 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1902
c0ea85ab
TF
1903TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1904 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1905
0761d44e
TF
1906TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1907
0a349494
PP
1908DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1909 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1910 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1911
1912PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1913 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1914 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1915
fea24b2e
PP
1916PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1917 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1918 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1919 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1920
6545de78
PP
1921PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1922 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1923 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1924 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1925
1670ef10
PP
1926PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1927 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1928 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1929 arbitrary files.
1930
c0886197
PP
1931PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1932 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1933
b7487bce
PP
1934PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1935 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1936 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1937 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1938 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1939
8c07b69f 1940
97fd1e48 1941Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1942-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1943
1944PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1945 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1946 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1947
6901c596
PP
1948PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1949 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1950
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1951JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1952
77bb000f
PP
1953PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1954
a29e5231
PP
1955PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1956
ec5a0394 1957PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1958
55c75993
PP
1959PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1960
453a6645 1961PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1962 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1963 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1964 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1965
8544e77a
PP
1966PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1967 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1968 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1969 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1970 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1971
83e029d5
PP
1972PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1973
ed7f7860
PP
1974PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1975
7d9f747b
PP
1976PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1977
4b2241d2
PP
1978PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1979
10385c15
PP
1980PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1981
dbc4b90d
PP
1982PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1983
532be449
PP
1984PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1985
6a8de854 1986PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1987 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1988 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1989
5dc43717
JJ
1990JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1991
1992JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1993 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1994
3346ab01
PP
1995PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1996 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1997
491fab4c
PP
1998PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1999 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2000 Notification from John Horne.
2001
13eb9497
PP
2002PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2003 compatible.
2004
2005PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2006 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2007 it normally works.
2008
7f36d675
DW
2009DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2010 access.
2011
c1d94452
DW
2012DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2013 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2014 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2015
e2f5dc15
DW
2016DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2017 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2018 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2019 configuration file.
2020
cd25e41d
DW
2021DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2022 option (effectively making it always true).
2023
261dc43e
DW
2024DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2025 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2026
fa32850b
DW
2027DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2028 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2029
79d4bc3d
PP
2030PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2031 run-time user, instead of root.
2032
43236f35 2033PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2034 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2035
fb08281f
DW
2036DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2037 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2038 arguments.
3346ab01 2039
74935b98
DW
2040DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2041 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2042 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2043
90b6341f
DW
2044DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2045
57730b52
ML
2046NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2047
66581d1e 2048
465e92cf
JJ
2049Exim version 4.72
2050-----------------
2051
453a6645
PP
2052JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2053 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2054 typos
465e92cf 2055
453a6645
PP
2056JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2057 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2058 (Finput)
edae0343 2059
9bd3e22c
NM
2060NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2061 Patch from Alain Williams
2062
bb576ff7
NM
2063NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2064
5a1a5845
NM
2065NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2066 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2067
981a9fad
NM
2068NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2069 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2070
7fc497ee
NM
2071NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2072
1a41defa
JJ
2073JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2074
a466095c 2075NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2076 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2077
94a6bd0b
NM
2078TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2079
2080TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2081
2082MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2083 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2084 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2085
c1b141a8
NM
2086NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2087 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2088
b26eacf1 2089NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2090 Patch by Simon Arlott
2091
179c5980 2092PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2093 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2094
9bd3e22c 2095
7c6d71af
NM
2096Exim version 4.71
2097-----------------
2098
7d9f747b 2099TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2100
f013fb92
NM
2101NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2102
0eb8eedd
NM
2103NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2104
663ee6d9
NM
2105NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2106
177ebd9b
NM
2107NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2108
7c6d71af 2109
210f147e
NM
2110Exim version 4.70
2111-----------------
2112
cdd3bb85 2113TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2114 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2115
2116TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2117 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2118 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2119
2120TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2121 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2122 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2123
2124TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2125 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2126
210f147e
NM
2127NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2128 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2129 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2130 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2131
deafd5b3
NM
2132NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2133 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2134 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2135
089793a4
TF
2136TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2137
5f16ca82
TF
2138TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2139
dae9d94e 2140NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2141 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2142
7d9f747b 2143NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2144
06864c44
TF
2145TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2146 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2147 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2148 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2149
65a7d8c3 2150NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2151 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2152
23510047 2153TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2154
7d9f747b 2155NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2156
7d8eec3a 2157NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2158 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2159
89dec7b6
TF
2160TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2161 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2162
a99de90c
TF
2163TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2164 that they are available at delivery time.
2165
e2803e40
TF
2166TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2167
7199e1ee
TF
2168TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2169 incoming_port log selectors.
2170
e276e04b
TF
2171TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2172 setting expands to an empty string.
2173
ce552449 2174NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2175 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2176
e765a0f1 2177NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2178 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2179
4f054c63 2180NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2181 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2182
7d9f747b
PP
2183NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2184 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2185
7d9f747b
PP
2186NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2187 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2188
b52bc06e 2189NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2190 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2191
447de4b0
NM
2192NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2193
4c69d561 2194NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2195 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2196
d5c39246 2197NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2198 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2199
0b23848a
TK
2200TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2201
8f3414a1 2202NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2203 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2204
fb6f955d
NM
2205NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2206
2207NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2208
7d9f747b
PP
2209NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2210 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2211
7d9f747b
PP
2212NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2213 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2214
7d9f747b
PP
2215NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2216 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2217
7d9f747b
PP
2218NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2219 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2220
7d9f747b
PP
2221NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2222 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2223
7d9f747b
PP
2224NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2225 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2226
7d9f747b
PP
2227NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2228 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2229
7d9f747b 2230NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2231 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2232
7d9f747b 2233NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2234
7d9f747b
PP
2235NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2236 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2237
7d9f747b 2238NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2239
7d9f747b 2240NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2241
7d9f747b 2242NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2243
7d9f747b 2244NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2245
17792b53 2246NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2247 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2248
7d9f747b
PP
2249NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2250 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2251
91576cec 2252NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2253 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2254
7d9f747b
PP
2255NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2256 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2257
7d9f747b 2258NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2259
7d9f747b 2260NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2261
7d9f747b 2262NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2263
7d9f747b 2264NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2265
deafd5b3 2266
47db1125
NM
2267Exim version 4.69
2268-----------------
2269
4b3504d0
TK
2270TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2271 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2272 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2273
2274 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2275 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2276 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2277 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2278 build errors in sieve.c.
2279
81ea09ca
NM
2280NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2281 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2282 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2283
f13cddcb
SC
2284SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2285
7d9f747b 2286NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2287
7d9f747b 2288NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2289
7d9f747b 2290NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2291
2292
eb4c0de6
PH
2293Exim version 4.68
2294-----------------
2295
2296PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2297
6a3bceb1
PH
2298PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2299 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2300 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2301 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2302 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2303 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2304 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2305 for iplsearch lookups.
2306
2307 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2308 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2309 previously such lookups could never work.
2310
4c04137d 2311 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2312 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2313 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2314
2e30fa9d
TK
2315TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2316 version.
2317
0806a9c5
MH
2318MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2319 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2320 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2321 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2322 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2323 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2324
ae276964
TK
2325TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2326 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2327
0f2cbd1b
MH
2328MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2329 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2330 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2331 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2332 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2333 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2334
2b85bce7
PH
2335PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2336 local_scan API.
2337
93655c46
PH
2338PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2339
6c512171
PH
2340PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2341 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2342 encrypted.
2343
2344PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2345 by clients under certain conditions.
2346
aa6dc513
PH
2347PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2348 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2349
a96603a0
PH
2350PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2351
8f240103
PH
2352PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2353 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2354
2355PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2356
d677b2f2
PH
2357PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2358
d52120f2
PH
2359PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2360
64f2600a
PH
2361PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2362 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2363
8669f003
PH
2364PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2365
a4dc33a8
PH
2366PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2367 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2368
d6a60c0f
PH
2369PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2370
8f128379
PH
2371PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2372
8932dffe
PH
2373PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2374 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2375 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2376 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2377
ddea74fa 2378PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2379 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2380 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2381
ddea74fa 2382PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2383 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2384
ddea74fa
PH
2385PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2386
ce9f225c
PH
2387PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2388
19897d52
PH
2389PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2390
bc64a74d
PH
2391PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2392 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2393 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2394
eb4c0de6 2395
b4ed4da0
PH
2396Exim version 4.67
2397-----------------
2398
22ad45c9
MH
2399MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2400 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2401 Jan Srzednicki.
2402
b4ed4da0
PH
2403PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2404 issue a MAIL command.
2405
431b7361
PH
2406PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2407
2408 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2409
2410 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2411 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2412 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2413 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2414 item. This has been fixed.
2415
2416PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2417 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2418
83da1223
PH
2419PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2420 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2421
54fc8428
PH
2422PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2423 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2424 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2425
34c5e8dd
SC
2426SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2427
bbe15da8
PH
2428PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2429 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2430 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2431 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2432 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2433
0e8a9471
MH
2434MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2435 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2436 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2437
f0872424
PH
2438PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2439 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2440 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2441 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2442
b01dd148
PH
2443PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2444
6bf342e1
PH
2445PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2446
273f34d0
PH
2447PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2448 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2449 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2450 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2451 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2452
cf8b11a5
PH
2453PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2454
41c7c167
PH
2455PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2456 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2457 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2458 values).
2459
9c57cbc0
PH
2460PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2461
f3f065bb
PH
2462PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2463
047bdd8c
PH
2464PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2465
0ce9abe6
PH
2466PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2467
0e22dfd1
PH
2468PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2469
4c590bd1
PH
2470PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2471 no_callout_flush is set.
2472
09945f1e
PH
2473PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2474 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2475 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2476 fixed.
2477
c51b8e75
PH
2478PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2479
e28326d8 2480PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2481 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2482 other ACL rejections are.
2483
75b1493f
PH
2484PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2485 with slight modification.
2486
7c5214ec
PH
2487PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2488 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2489
4311097e
PH
2490PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2491 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2492 connection.
2493
29f89cad
PH
2494PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2495 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2496
5e687460
SC
2497SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2498
c3611384
PH
2499PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2500 expansion side effects.
2501
5a11a7b4
PH
2502PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2503 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2504 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2505 be the same.
2506
0e20aff9
MH
2507MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2508 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2509 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2510
ca86f471
PH
2511PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2512 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2513 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2514 were accidentally chopped off.
2515
a14e5636
PH
2516PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2517 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2518 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2519 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2520 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2521 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2522 pipelining has not been advertised.
2523
ec95d1a6
PH
2524PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2525
42855d71
PH
2526PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2527 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2528 This has been fixed.
2529
57c2c631
PH
2530PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2531 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2532 reported on Solaris.
2533
58c01c94
PH
2534PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2535 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2536 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2537 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2538 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2539 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2540 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2541
dee5a20a
PH
2542PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2543 cpus.
2544
d2ee6114
PH
2545PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2546
b2d5182b
PH
2547PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2548
79749a79
PH
2549PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2550 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2551 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2552 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2553 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2554 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2555
c456d9bb
PH
2556PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2557 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2558 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2559 host_all_ignored option.
2560
cd9868ec
PH
2561PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2562 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2563 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2564 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2565 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2566 is what is supposed to happen).
2567
ebeaf996
PH
2568PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2569 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2570 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2571 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2572 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2573 uses the Exim user.
2574
2679d413
PH
2575PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2576 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2577 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2578 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2579 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2580 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2581 users.
2582
84024b72
PH
2583PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2584
8005d38e
SC
2585SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2586 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2587 (Jez Hancock).
2588 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2589 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2590
3298c6c6
SC
2591SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2592
a43a27c5
PH
2593PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2594
58eb016e 2595PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2596 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2597 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2598 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2599 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2600 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2601 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2602 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2603 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2604 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2605 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2606
b43a74ea
PH
2607PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2608 advertised in response to EHLO.
2609
b4ed4da0 2610
5dd1517f
PH
2611Exim version 4.66
2612-----------------
2613
2614PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2615 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2616
2617 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2618 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2619
2620 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2621 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2622 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2623
2624 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2625 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2626 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2627 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2628 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2629
2630
93cfa765
TK
2631Exim version 4.65
2632-----------------
2633
2634TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2635 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2636 versions. (#438)
2637
d6066548
MH
2638MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2639 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2640 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2641
4362ff0d
PH
2642PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2643 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2644 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2645 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2646 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2647 rather than extend the field.
2648
93cfa765 2649
944e9e9c
TF
2650Exim version 4.64
2651-----------------
aa41d2de 2652
21d74bd9
TK
2653TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2654 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2655 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2656 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2657 these files.
2658
2659TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2660 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2661 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2662
2663TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2664 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2665 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2666
2667TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2668 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2669 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2670 in the field name.
2671
2b1c6e3a
PH
2672PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2673 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2674 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2675 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2676 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2677 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2678 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2679 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2680 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2681 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2682 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2683
1f872c80
PH
2684PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2685 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2686
2687PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2688 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2689 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2690 ignores EPIPE as well.
2691
d203e649
PH
2692PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2693 (quoted-printable decoding).
2694
cc2ed8f7 2695PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2696 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2697
ddfcd446
PH
2698PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2699
d45b1de8
PH
2700PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2701
2702PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2703
38a0a95f 2704PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2705 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2706
a2405d83
JJ
2707JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2708 in 4.64-PH/09.
2709
2710JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2711 miscellaneous code fixes
2712
6ea85e9a
PH
2713PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2714 rejections.
2715
26da7e20
PH
2716PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2717 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2718 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2719 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2720 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2721 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2722 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2723 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2724
14aa5a05 2725PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2726 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2727 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2728 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2729 function.
2730 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2731 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2732 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2733 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2734 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2735 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2736 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2737 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2738 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2739
ff75a1f7
PH
2740PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2741 decoding.
2742
e6f6568e
PH
2743PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2744 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2745 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2746 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2747 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2748 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2749 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2750 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2751
d6f6e0dc
PH
2752PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2753 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2754 list.
2755
322050c2
PH
2756PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2757 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2758 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2759 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2760 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2761 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2762 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2763 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2764 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2765 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2766 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2767 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2768 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2769
08955dd3
PH
2770PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2771 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2772 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2773 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2774 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2775 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2776 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2777
1eccaa59
PH
2778PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2779 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2780 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2781 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2782 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2783 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2784 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2785 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2786 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2787 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2788
602e59e5
PH
2789PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2790 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2791 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2792 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2793 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2794
411ef850
PH
2795PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2796 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2797 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2798 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2799 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2800 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2801 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2802
7befa435
PH
2803PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2804 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2805 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2806 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2807 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2808 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2809 been verified.
2810
48da4259 2811PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2812 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2813 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2814 and authorization.)
2815
48da4259
PH
2816PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2817 if any retry times were supplied.
2818
d1d5595c
PH
2819PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2820 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2821 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2822
0ef732d9
PH
2823PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2824
328895cc
PH
2825PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2826
fd700877
PH
2827PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2828 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2829 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2830 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2831 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2832 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2833
8dce1a6f
PH
2834PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2835 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2836
17af4a17
PH
2837PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2838 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2839 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2840
2841PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2842 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2843 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2844 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2845 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2846 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2847 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2848 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2849 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2850
2851 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2852 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2853 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2854 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2855 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2856 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2857 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2858 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2859 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2860
2861 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2862 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2863 hammering the server.
2864
c1114884
PH
2865PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2866 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2867
7a0743eb
PH
2868PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2869
0d85fa3f
PH
2870PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2871 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2872 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2873
1bf43b78
PH
2874PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2875 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2876 one case where this was not true.
2877
520de300
PH
2878PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2879 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2880 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2881 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2882 fails.
2883
48c7f9e2
PH
2884PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2885 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2886 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2887 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2888 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2889 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2890 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2891 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2892 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2893 smtp transport.
2894
99ea1c86
PH
2895PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2896 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2897 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2898 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2899
a2042e78
PH
2900PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2901 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2902
4fbcfc2e
PH
2903PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2904 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2905 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2906
aa41d2de
PH
2907PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2908
af561417
PH
2909PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2910
3cc66b45
PH
2911PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2912
194cc0e4
PH
2913PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2914 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2915 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2916 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2917
a401ddaa
PH
2918PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2919 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2920
4e88a19f
PH
2921PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2922 be meaningful with "accept".
2923
d7d7b289
SC
2924SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2925 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2926
2927SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2928 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2929 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2930
2931SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2932 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2933 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2934 there is data to show.
2935 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2936
2937SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2938 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2939 as well as the number of messages.
2940
2941SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2942 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2943 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2944
2945SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2946 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2947 have a flag are now skipped.
2948
2949SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2950 Added the -emptyok flag.
2951
2952SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2953 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2954
0ea2a468
JJ
2955JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2956 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2957 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2958
2959JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2960 match 4.64-PH/13
2961
2962JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2963 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2964
2965JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2966
2967JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2968 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2969
8a10f5a4
PH
2970PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2971
30e18802
PH
2972PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2973 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2974 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2975 contravention of the specifications.
2976
55728a4f
PH
2977PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2978 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2979 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2980
d7837193
PH
2981PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2982 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2983 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2984
87054a31
PH
2985PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2986
ea2c01d2
MH
2987MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2988 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2989 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2990 some point in the past.
2991
e4fa6968
PH
2992PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2993 transport during callout processing was broken.
2994
56f5d9bd
PH
2995PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2996 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2997
922e1c28
PH
2998PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2999 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3000
21eb6e72
PH
3001PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3002 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3003
a0540757
PH
3004PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3005
944e9e9c 3006
478be7b0
SC
3007Exim version 4.63
3008-----------------
3009
3010SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3011 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3012
3013SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3014 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3015 there is data to show.
3016 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3017
3018SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3019 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3020
2b965a65
TF
3021TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3022 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3023
45b91596
PH
3024TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3025 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3026
c59f5781
TF
3027TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3028 submissions from trusted users.
3029
90fc3069
TF
3030TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3031 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3032
6083aca0
TF
3033TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3034 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3035 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3036 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3037 there is now a framework to start from.
3038
765b530f
PH
3039PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3040 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3041 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3042
4e167a8c
PH
3043PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3044
4608d683
PH
3045PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3046
b8dc3e4a
PH
3047PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3048
5418e93b
PH
3049PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3050 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3051 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3052
b4a9bda2
PH
3053PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3054 libradius.
3055
45b91596
PH
3056PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3057 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3058 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3059
5547e2c5
PH
3060PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3061 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3062 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3063 its arguments.
3064
dbcef0ea
PH
3065PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3066 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3067 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3068 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3069 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3070
25257489
PH
3071PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3072 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3073
c816d124
PH
3074PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3075
a9ccd69a
PH
3076PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3077 operations in malware.c.
3078
75fa1910
PH
3079PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3080 signatures.
3081
a7d7aa58
PH
3082PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3083 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3084 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3085 all.
3086
42119b09
PH
3087PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3088 statements to "add_header".
3089
41609df5
PH
3090PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3091 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3092
a5bd321b
PH
3093PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3094 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3095 latter.
3096
e85a7ad5 3097PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3098 so that it is now:
3099
e85a7ad5
PH
3100 ${if or { \
3101 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3102 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3103 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3104 }{no}{yes}}
3105
e85a7ad5
PH
3106 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3107 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3108
d8fe1c03
PH
3109PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3110 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3111
16282d2b
PH
3112PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3113 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3114 any possible encoding problems.
3115
35d40a98
PH
3116PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3117 but not after initializing Perl.
3118
034d99ab
PH
3119PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3120 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3121 apparently, which is not desirable.
3122
6ec97b1b
PH
3123PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3124 queries.
3125
e22ca4ac
JJ
3126JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3127 --not options
3128
3129JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3130
33d73e3b
PH
3131PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3132 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3133 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3134 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3135
9ecb03f3
PH
3136PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3137 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3138 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3139
084efe8d
PH
3140PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3141 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3142 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3143 0.12.
3144
366fc9f0
PH
3145PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3146 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3147 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3148 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3149 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3150
c59f5781 3151
c887c79e
TF
3152Exim version 4.62
3153-----------------
3154
3155TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3156 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3157
1cce3af8
PH
3158PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3159 patch).
3160
afb3eaaf
PH
3161PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3162 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3163 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3164 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3165 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3166 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3167 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3168 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3169 451 error is used.
3170
e173618b
PH
3171PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3172
dd16e114
PH
3173PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3174 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3175 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3176
f7fd3850
PH
3177PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3178 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3179 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3180 odd errors.
3181
d87df92c
PH
3182PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3183 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3184
7e9f683d
PH
3185PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3186 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3187 option (which defaults to 0600).
3188
bfad5236
PH
3189PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3190
01c490df
PH
3191PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3192 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3193 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3194 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3195 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3196 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3197 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3198
d6629cdc
PH
3199PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3200
1cce3af8 3201
214e2000
PH
3202Exim version 4.61
3203-----------------
3204
3205PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3206 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3207 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3208 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3209 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3210 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3211 addresses as local.
3212
f9daeae0
PH
3213PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3214 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3215
7e66e54d
PH
3216PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3217
c8ea1597
PH
3218PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3219 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3220 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3221 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3222 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3223 grumble.
3224
911f6fde
PH
3225PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3226 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3227
47ca6d6c
PH
3228PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3229 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3230 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3231 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3232 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3233
ed0e9820
PH
3234PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3235 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3236 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3237 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3238
eff37e47
PH
3239PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3240 be the same on different OS.
3241
1921d2ea
PH
3242PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3243 testing.
3244
b3f69ca8
JJ
3245JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3246 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3247
3248JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3249 in 4.61-PH/06
3250
424a1c63
PH
3251PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3252 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3253 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3254 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3255 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3256 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3257 bounce message.
3258
7a100415
PH
3259PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3260 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3261 when Exim was called.
3262
19b9dc85
PH
3263PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3264 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3265
309bd837
PH
3266PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3267 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3268 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3269 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3270
59e82a2a
PH
3271PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3272 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3273 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3274 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3275 changes:
3276
3277 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3278 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3279 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3280
3281 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3282 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3283 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3284
9edc04ce
PH
3285PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3286 feature).
3287
1349e1e5
PH
3288PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3289 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3290 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3291 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3292 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3293 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3294 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3295 values from the SRV records were lost.
3296
ea49d0e1
PH
3297PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3298 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3299 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3300
064a94c9
PH
3301PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3302 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3303 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3304
727071f8
PH
3305PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3306 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3307 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3308 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3309 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3310 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3311 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3312 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3313 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3314 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3315
f78eb7c6
PH
3316PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3317 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3318 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3319
21c28500
PH
3320PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3321 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3322
3323PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3324 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3325 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3326 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3327 is given.
3328
1688f43b
PH
3329PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3330 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3331 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3332
3333PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3334 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3335 PH/23 above applies.
3336
9675b384
PH
3337PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3338 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3339 (for which there is an explicit test).
3340
6a3f1455
PH
3341PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3342
dac79d3e
PH
3343PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3344 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3345 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3346 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3347 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3348
5977a0b3
PH
3349PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3350 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3351 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3352 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3353
c91535f3
PH
3354PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3355 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3356 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3357
0d46a8c8
PH
3358PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3359
278c6e6c
PH
3360PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3361
2cbb4081
PH
3362PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3363 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3364 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3365
3eef829e
PH
3366PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3367 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3368 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3369 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3370 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3371
1ab95fa6
PH
3372PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3373 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3374 the message gets confusing).
3375
230205fc
PH
3376PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3377 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3378 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3379 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3380
75e0e026
PH
3381PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3382 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3383 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3384 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3385 same order.
3386
3387PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3388 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3389 the different processes.
3390
145396a6
PH
3391PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3392
3cd34f13
PH
3393PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3394
11121d3d
JJ
3395JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3396 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3397
3398JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3399 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3400
3401JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3402 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3403 messages matching specified criteria.
3404
8def5aaf
PH
3405PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3406
929ba01c
PH
3407PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3408 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3409
2632889e
PH
3410PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3411 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3412 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3413 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3414 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3415 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3416 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3417 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3418 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3419 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3420
944a9c55
PH
3421PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3422 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3423 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3424
4a23603b
PH
3425PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3426
4730f942
PH
3427PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3428 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3429 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3430 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3431 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3432 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3433 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3434 the variable.
3435
30dba1e6
PH
3436PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3437 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3438
382afc6b
PH
3439PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3440
a86229cf
PH
3441PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3442
50c99ba6
PH
3443PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3444
d35e429d
PH
3445PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3446 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3447 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3448 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3449 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3450 size of the count of files.
3451
f90d018c
PH
3452PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3453
75def545
PH
3454PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3455 used in LMTP mode:
3456
3457 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3458 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3459 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3460 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3461
3462 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3463 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3464 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3465
3466PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3467 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3468 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3469 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3470 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3471
c46782ef
PH
3472PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3473 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3474
71fafd95
PH
3475PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3476 will now be deprecated.
3477
2c5db4fd
PH
3478PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3479
9cf6b11a
JJ
3480JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3481 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3482 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3483
3484JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3485 with very large, slow to parse queues
3486
3487JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3488
3489JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3490
898d150f
PH
3491PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3492 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3493 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3494 SMTP output lines.
3495
46218253
PH
3496PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3497 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3498 Sieve code now uses this.
3499
e97957bc
PH
3500PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3501 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3502
81e509d7
PH
3503PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3504 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3505
3d240ff7
PH
3506PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3507
b37c4101
PH
3508PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3509 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3510 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3511 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3512 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3513
79378e0f
PH
3514PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3515 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3516 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3517 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3518
e49c7bb4
PH
3519PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3520
d114ec46
PH
3521PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3522
f3d7df6c
PH
3523PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3524 is preferred over IPv4.
3525
715ab376
PH
3526PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3527 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3528 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3529 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3530 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3531 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3532 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3533
6b31b150
PH
3534PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3535 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3536 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3537
3538PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3539
d515a917
PH
3540PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3541 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3542 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3543 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3544 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3545 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3546 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3547 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3548 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3549 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3550 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3551
9b8fadde
PH
3552PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3553 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3554 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3555
214e2000 3556
5de37277
PH
3557Exim version 4.60
3558-----------------
3559
cc38ddbf
PH
3560PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3561
3562 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3563 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3564
3565 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3566 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3567 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3568
72fdd6ae
PH
3569PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3570
3571 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3572 not a single digit.
3573
3574 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3575 string.
3576
3577 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3578 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3579 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3580 silly things.
3581
3582 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3583 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3584
3585 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3586 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3587
cb741023
PH
3588PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3589 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3590 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3591
f174f16e
PH
3592PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3593 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3594
c25242d7
PH
3595PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3596 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3597
3598 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3599
3600 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3601 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3602 this:
3603
3604 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3605
82c19f95
PH
3606PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3607 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3608 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3609 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3610 identical. For example:
3611
3612 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3613
3614 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3615 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3616 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3617
d7ffbc12
PH
3618PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3619 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3620 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3621 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3622
9f526266
PH
3623PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3624 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3625 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3626 message.
3627
87fcc8b9
PH
3628PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3629
3630 o fixes some comments
3631 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3632 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3633 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3634 and documents the missing references header update
3635
3636 and most important:
3637
3638 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3639 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3640 result)
3641
456682f5
PH
3642PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3643 Electronic Mail") by including:
3644
3645 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3646
3647 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3648 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3649 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3650 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3651 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3652
3653 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3654
3655 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3656
3657 The auto-replied keyword:
3658
3659 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3660 message by an automatic process,
3661
3662 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3663
3664 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3665 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3666
3667 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3668 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3669 other messages.
3670
3e46c1aa
PH
3671PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3672 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3673
49826d12
PH
3674PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3675
eba0c039
PH
3676PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3677 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3678 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3679
a0d6ba8a
PH
3680PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3681 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3682 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3683
f0917727
PH
3684PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3685 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3686 and treats the condition as false.
3687
096fee00
PH
3688PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3689
024bd3c2
PH
3690PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3691 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3692 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3693 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3694 not changing the active code.
3695
3696 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3697 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3698
3699 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3700 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3701
df199fec
PH
3702PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3703 (Bugzilla #53).
3704
d27f1df3
PH
3705PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3706 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3707 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3708 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3709 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3710 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3711 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3712 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3713 the text comparison.
3714
96776534
PH
3715PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3716 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3717 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3718 The same fix has been applied.
3719
5de37277 3720
9a799bc0
PH
3721Exim version 4.54
3722-----------------
3723
3724PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3725 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3726 It now does.
3727
99a4b039
PH
3728PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3729 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3730
3731PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3732
4b233853
PH
3733PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3734 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3735 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3736 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3737 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3738
8857ccfd
PH
3739TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3740 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3741 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3742 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3743 or /domain=).
3744
433a2980
PH
3745PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3746 testing suite.
3747
3e46c1aa 3748
9a799bc0 3749
e3a311ba
TK
3750Exim version 4.53
3751-----------------
3752
3753TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3754 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3755
13b685f9
PH
3756PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3757
395ff96d
PH
3758PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3759
5b68f6e4
PH
3760PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3761 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3762 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3763
1ab52c69
PH
3764PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3765 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3766 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3767
b07e6aa3
PH
3768PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3769 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3770 operating systems.
3771
254e032f
PH
3772PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3773 ${stat: expansion item.
3774
3af76a81
PH
3775PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3776 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3777
2548ba04
PH
3778PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3779 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3780 file for comments.
3781
b6c6011d
PH
3782PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3783
cf39cf57
PH
3784PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3785 setting.
3786
f1513293
PH
3787PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3788 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3789
727549a4
PH
3790TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3791
af46795e
PH
3792PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3793 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3794 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3795 the end of the subprocess.
3796
d7b47fd0
PH
3797PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3798 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3799 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3800 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3801 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3802
ee744174
JJ
3803JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3804
b582ab87
PH
3805TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3806
41a13e0a
PH
3807PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3808 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3809
f625cc5a
PH
3810PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3811
3812PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3813
21f7af35
PH
3814PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3815 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3816 HP-UX compiler.
3817
31480e42
PH
3818PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3819
2d280592
PH
3820PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3821 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3822 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3823
7cd1141b
PH
3824PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3825 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3826
3827PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3828 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3829
750af86e
PH
3830PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3831 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3832
3833 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3834 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3835
3836 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3837 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3838 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3839 contributed by a Radius user.
3840
3841PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3842 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3843
4304270b
TK
3844TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3845 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3846
750af86e
PH
3847PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3848 available.
3849
64ffc24f
PH
3850PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3851 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3852 received.
3853
5dd9625b
PH
3854PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3855 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3856 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3857 header lines when this was not necessary.
3858
5591031b
PH
3859PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3860
ba18e66a
PH
3861PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3862 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3863 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3864 exists".
3865
9cec981f
PH
3866PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3867 -bV or -d is used.
3868
aa2b5c79
PH
3869PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3870 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3871 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3872 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3873
48a53b7f
PH
3874PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3875
1c59d63b
PH
3876PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3877
671012da
TK
3878TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3879
1509d3a8
PH
3880PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3881
3882PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3883 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3884 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3885 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3886 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3887 settings.
3888
3889PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3890
2fe1a124
PH
3891PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3892 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3893 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3894 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3895 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3896 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3897 which is clearly wrong.
3898
8800895a
PH
3899PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3900
ccfdb010
PH
3901PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3902 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3903 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3904 subsequently added.
3905
1130bfb0
PH
3906PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3907 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3908
ebcb507f
PH
3909PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3910
c35e155c
PH
3911PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3912 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3913
95d1f782
PH
3914PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3915 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3916
fd6de02e
PH
3917PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3918 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3919
58de37c5
PH
3920PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3921 recipients, not senders.
3922
261cf466
TF
3923TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3924 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3925
3ee512ff
PH
3926PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3927
e08c430f
PH
3928PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3929
bef5a11f
PH
3930PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3931 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3932 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3933 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3934
7546de58
TF
3935TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3936
e5d5a95f
TF
3937TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3938 clock is set back in time.
3939
2e88a017
TF
3940TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3941 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3942
a5f65aa4
TF
3943TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3944 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3945
e7726cbf
PH
3946PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3947 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3948 (see PH/47 above).
3949
a7fdad5b
TF
3950TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3951 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3952 header rewrites.
3953
6af56900
PH
3954PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3955 type ("H").
3956
0925ede6
PH
3957PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3958
66afa403
TF
3959TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3960 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3961 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3962
0154e85a
TF
3963TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3964 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3965 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3966 helo verification defer as a failure.
3967
16f12c76
PH
3968PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3969 actual error message.
3970
bbe902f0 3971
e5a9dba6
PH
3972Exim version 4.52
3973-----------------
3974
3975TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3976
22c3b60b
PH
3977PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3978 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3979 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3980 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3981
06a9b4b5
PH
3982TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3983
c1ac6996
PH
3984PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3985 can still be requested.
3986
9c7a242c
PH
3987PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3988 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3989 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3990 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3991
87ba3f5f
PH
3992TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3993 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3994 circumstances, but probably never did.
3995
3996PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3997 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3998 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3999 in the header line.
4000
29aba418
TF
4001TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4002
fe0dab11
TF
4003TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4004 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4005
11d337a4
TK
4006TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4007
4008TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4009
415c8f3b
PH
4010PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4011 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4012 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4013 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4014 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4015 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4016
958541e9
PH
4017PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4018 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4019 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4020 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4021 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4022 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4023
c206415f
TK
4024TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4025 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4026
2a4be8f9
PH
4027PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4028 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4029
1cba11c5
SC
4030SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4031 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4032
4c04137d 4033SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4034
4035SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4036
4037SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4038
4039SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4040
4041SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4042
4043SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4044
1005d00e
TK
4045TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4046
4047TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4048 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4049 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4050
4051TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4052 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4053 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4054 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4055
9b4768fa
PH
4056PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4057 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4058 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4059
4060PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4061 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4062 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4063 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4064
0d7eb84a
PH
4065PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4066 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4067 to be made).
4068
4069PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4070 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4071 should work with maildirs and everything.
4072
40727bee
TK
4073TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4074 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4075
554d2369
TF
4076TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4077 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4078
1f922db1
PH
4079PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4080 function for BDB 4.3.
4081
ef213c3b
PH
4082PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4083
8ac170f3
PH
4084PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4085 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4086 involved.
4087
b1c749bb
PH
4088PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4089 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4090 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4091 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4092 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4093 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4094
4aac9b49
PH
4095PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4096 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4097 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4098 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4099 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4100 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4101 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4102 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4103
294520c8
TK
4104TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4105 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4106 details.
4107
5bd022fe
PH
4108PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4109 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4110
90e9ce59
PH
4111PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4112 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4113 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4114 test. It is now used for both.
4115
5ea81592
PH
4116PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4117 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4118 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4119 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4120 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4121 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4122
c6c2dc1d
PH
4123PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4124 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4125 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4126 string_vformat().
4127
fffffe4c
PH
4128PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4129 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4130 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4131
9a26b6b2
PH
4132PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4133 experimental DomainKeys support:
4134
4135 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4136 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4137 the control was given.
4138
4139 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4140
4aee0225
PH
4141PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4142
32d668a5
PH
4143PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4144
8187c3f3
PH
4145PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4146 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4147 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4148 db.h files).
4149
ff790e47 4150PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4151 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4152 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4153 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4154 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4155 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4156 course.
ff790e47 4157
5417f6d1
PH
4158PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4159 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4160 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4161 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4162 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4163 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4164
59cf8544
PH
4165PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4166 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4167 do -d+all out of habit.
4168
e7ad8a65
PH
4169PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4170 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4171 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4172
ade42478
PH
4173PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4174 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4175 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4176 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4177 record types that Exim uses.
4178
182ad5cf
PH
4179PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4180 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4181 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4182 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4183 non-existent file that was broken.
4184
b0d9fc80
TK
4185TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4186 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4187
4188TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4189 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4190 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4191
4192TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4193
47c7a64a
PH
4194PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4195 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4196 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4197 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4198 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4199 same time.
4200
a388bce4
SC
4201SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4202 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4203 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4204 at a slight CPU cost.
4205
4206SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4207 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4208
4209SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4210 by Marc Sherman.
4211
0793e4ed
SC
4212SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4213
c58b88df
PH
4214PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4215 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4216
e7ad8a65 4217
7982096b
PH
4218Exim version 4.51
4219-----------------
4220
1a46a8c5
PH
4221TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4222 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4223
2f079f46 4224TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4225
4226TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4227
4228PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4229 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4230
4231PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4232 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4233 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4234 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4235 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4236 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4237 file.
4238
4239PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4240 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4241 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4242 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4243 these two options.
4244
4245PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4246 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4247 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4248 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4249 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4250 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4251 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4252 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4253
4254PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4255 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4256
4257PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4258 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4259 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4260 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4261 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4262 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4263
4264PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4265 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4266 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4267 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4268
4269PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4270 Finch).
4271
4272PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4273 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4274
49c2d5ea
PH
4275PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4276 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4277 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4278 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4279 message.
49c2d5ea 4280
bf759a8b
PH
4281PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4282
83364d30
PH
4283PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4284 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4285
7999bbd7
PH
4286PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4287 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4288 to what was transported.)
4289
7dbf77c9
PH
4290TF/01 Added $received_time.
4291
74e0617f
PH
4292PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4293 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4294 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4295 spamd_address settings.
4296
2f079f46
PH
4297PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4298 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4299 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4300 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4301 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4302
8c841523
PH
4303PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4304
7766a4f0
PH
4305PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4306 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4307 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4308 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4309 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4310
8b417f2c
PH
4311PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4312 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4313
901f42cb
PH
4314PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4315 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4316 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4317 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4318 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4319 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4320 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4321 for failure.
4322
f9b9210e
PH
4323PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4324 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4325 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4326 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4327 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4328 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4329 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4330 "input=".
4331
54cdb463
PH
4332PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4333
cf00dad6
PH
4334PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4335 driver and ACL definitions.
4336
acb1b346
PH
4337PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4338 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4339
c5ddb310
PH
4340PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4341 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4342 understands it better than I do:
4343
4344 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4345 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4346
4347 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4348 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4349 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4350 => three warnings about OTP not working
4351 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4352
4353 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4354 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4355 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4356 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4357 for each call.)
4358 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4359 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4360
4361 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4362 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4363 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4364
31619da6
PH
4365PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4366 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4367 specified.
4368
bebaf0fc
PH
4369PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4370 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4371 "Linux".
4372
475fe28a
PH
4373PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4374 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4375 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4376
4377 warn !verify = sender
4378 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4379
4380 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4381 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4382
7e8bec7a
PH
4383PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4384
4385 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4386 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4387
4388 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4389 nomenclature these days.)
4390
e4a89c47
PH
4391PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4392 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4393
5ca2a9a1
PH
4394PH/30 In these circumstances:
4395 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4396 . First host does not offer TLS;
4397 . First host accepts first address;
4398 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4399 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4400 . Second host accepts second address.
4401 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4402 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4403 address.
7e8bec7a 4404
c688b954
PH
4405PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4406 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4407 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4408 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4409 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4410
fed77020
PH
4411PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4412 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4413
7fe1560f
PH
4414PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4415 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4416
ebb6e6d5
PH
4417PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4418 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4419 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4420
9c4e8f60
PH
4421PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4422 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4423 overlooked.
4424
4425PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4426
d7174846
PH
4427PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4428 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4429 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4430 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4431 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4432 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4433 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4434
4435 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4436 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4437 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4438 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4439 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4440
4441 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4442 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4443 routed further.
4444
cfe75fc3
PH
4445PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4446 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4447 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4448 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4449 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4450 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4451
be22d70e
PH
4452PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4453
0612b098
PH
4454PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4455 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4456 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4457 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4458 printable escape sequences.
4459
2e0c1448
PH
4460PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4461 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4462 body only.
4463
447d236c
PH
4464PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4465 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4466 are as follows:
4467
4468 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4469 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4470 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4471 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4472 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4473
4474 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4475 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4476 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4477
d20976dc
PH
4478PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4479
f656d135
PH
4480PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4481 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4482 play with."
4483
2e2a30b4
PH
4484PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4485 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4486 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4487 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4488 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4489 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4490 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4491 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4492 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4493 the log output.
4494
9176e9f0
PH
4495PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4496 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4497 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4498 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4499 "make".
4500
7982096b 4501
bbe902f0
PH
4502A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4503----------------------------------------
4504
4505Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4506changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4507needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4508in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4509that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4510release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4511from 4.43.
4512
4513I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
45144.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4515those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4516historical information.
4517
4518
f7b63901 4519Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4520-----------------
4521
5fe762f6
PH
4522 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4523
139059f6 4524 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4525 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4526
7086e875
PH
4527 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4528 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4529 place.
4530
35af9f61
PH
4531 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4532 filter fails to execute.
4533
b668c215
PH
4534 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4535 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4536 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4537 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4538 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4539
a494b1e1
PH
4540 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4541
4542 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4543 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4544 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4545 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4546
c5fcb476
PH
4547 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4548 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4549 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4550 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4551 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4552
69358f02
PH
4553 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4554
5be20824
PH
455510. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4556
eb2c0248
PH
455711. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4558 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4559 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4560 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4561
2a3eea10
PH
456212. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4563 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4564 sender verification.
4565
456613. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4567 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4568
23c7ff99
PH
456914. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4570
4deaf07d
PH
457115. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4572 connection timeout.
4573
926e1192
PH
457416. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4575 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4576
650edc6f
PH
457717. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4578 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4579
2c7db3f5
PH
458018. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4581 information about exactly what failed.
4582
3d235903
PH
458319. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4584
7c7ad977
PH
458520. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4586 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4587 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4588
981756db
PH
458921. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4590 It is now set to "smtps".
4591
d4eb88df
PH
459222. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4593 ignore_target_hosts.
4594
459523. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4596 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4597 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4598 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4599 "[x.x.x.x]".
4600
7d468ab8
PH
460124. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4602 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4603 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4604
460525. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4606 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4607 wake it up if nothing else does.
4608
62c0818f
PH
460926. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4610 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4611 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4612 end up negative.
4613
26034054
PH
461427. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4615 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4616
af66f652
PH
461728. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4618
90af77f4
PH
461929. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4620 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4621 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4622 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4623 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4624 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4625 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4626 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4627
d8ef3577
PH
462830. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4629 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4630 than one IP address.
4631
5cb8cbc6
PH
463231. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4633 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4634 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4635 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4636
14702f5b
PH
463732. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4638 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4639 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4640 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4641 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4642 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4643
063b1e99
PH
464433. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4645 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4646 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4647 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4648
652e1b65
PH
464934. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4650 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4651 respected.
4652
6f0c9a4f
PH
465335. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4654 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4655 $sender_host_address.
4656
33397d19
PH
465736. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4658 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4659 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4660 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4661 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4662 very small.
4663
7bb56e1f
PH
466437. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4665
4666 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4667 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4668
ea3bc19b
PH
4669 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4670 just the host names, not the priorities.
4671
4672 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4673 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4674 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4675
ea3bc19b 4676 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4677 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4678
0bcb2a0e
PH
467938. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4680 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4681 domain.
4682
2ac0e484
PH
468339. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4684
4e1fde53
PH
468540. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4686 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4687
de365ded
PH
468841. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4689 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4690 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4691
f05da2e8
PH
469242. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4693
d6453af2
PH
469443. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4695
f7b63901
PH
469644. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4697
469845. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4699 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4700 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4701 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4702 because the tests only now provoked it.
4703
a444213a
PH
470446. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4705 (this can affect the format of dates).
4706
0ec020ea
PH
470747. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4708 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4709 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4710 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4711
b1206957
PH
471248. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4713
471449. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4715 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4716 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4717 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4718
26dd5a95
PH
471950. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4720 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4721 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4722
343b2385
PH
472351. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4724 autoreply.
4725
1c5466b9
PH
472652. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4727 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4728 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4729 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4730 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4731 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4732 is going on).
4733
55ee9ee3
PH
473453. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4735 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4736 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4737 the line.
4738
d38f8232
PH
473954. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4740 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4741 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4742
4743 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4744 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4745 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4746 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4747 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4748 so I produce this patch..."
4749
3295e65b
PH
4750 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4751 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4752 is not defined.
4753
7102e136
PH
475455. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4755 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4756 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4757 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4758 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4759
3ca0ba97
PH
476056. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4761
c2bcbe20
PH
476257. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4763 long debug lines gets shown.
4764
18ce445d
PH
476558. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4766 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4767
1f5b4c3d
PH
476859. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4769
4770 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4771 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4772 of $primary_hostname.
4773
b975ba52
PH
477460. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4775 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4776 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4777 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4778 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4779 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4780 by change 4.50/55 above.
4781
4782 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4783 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4784 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4785 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4786 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4787 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4788 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4789
479061. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4791 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4792 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4793 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4794
17ffcae7
PH
479562. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4796 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4797
d95f9fdb
PH
479863. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4799 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4800 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4801 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4802 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4803
86b8287f
PH
480464. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4805 This has been fixed.
4806
60dc5e56
PH
480765. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4808 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4809 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4810 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4811 the caching.)
4812
533244af
PH
481366. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4814
a5a28604
PH
481567. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4816 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4817 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4818 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4819
7e634d24
PH
482068. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4821 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4822
3e11c26b
PH
482369. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4824 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4825 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4826
6729cf78
PH
482770. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4828 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4829 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4830 message there.
4831
00f00ca5
PH
483271. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4833 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4834 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4835
c9bdd01c
PH
483672. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4837 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4838 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4839 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4840
d43194df
PH
484173. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4842 during host lookups.
4843
fe5b5d0b
PH
484474. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4845 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4846
4847 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4848
76a2d7ba
PH
484975. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4850 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4851 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4852 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4853 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4854 background.
4855
485676. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4857 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4858
04f7d5b9
PH
485977. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4860 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4861 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4862
bc60667e
PH
486378. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4864
bb6e88ff
PH
486579. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4866 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4867 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4868 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4869 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4870 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4871 process earlier.
4872
1e70f85b
PH
487380. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4874 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4875 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4876 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4877 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4878
487981. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4880 tables).
4881
4e01f9d6
PH
488282. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4883
1ee1cef2
PH
488483. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4885 "vacation" handling.
4886
6e2b4ccc
PH
488784. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4888 OS variants using glibc.
4889
8e669ac1
PH
489085. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4891
495ae4b0 4892
bbe902f0
PH
4893----------------------------------------------------
4894See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4895----------------------------------------------------
4896
4897
4898Exim version 4.44
4899-----------------
4900
4901 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4902 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4903 transport
4904
4905 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4906 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4907 place.
4908
4909 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4910 filter fails to execute.
4911
4912 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4913 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4914 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4915 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4916 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4917
4918 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4919 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4920 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4921 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4922
4923 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4924 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4925 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4926 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4927 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4928
4929 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4930
4931 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4932 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4933 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4934 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4935
4936 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4937 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4938 sender verification.
4939
494010. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4941 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4942
494311. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4944 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4945
494612. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4947 ignore_target_hosts.
4948
494913. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4950 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4951 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4952 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4953 "[x.x.x.x]".
4954
495514. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4956 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4957 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4958
495915. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4960 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4961 wake it up if nothing else does.
4962
496316. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4964 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4965 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4966 end up negative.
4967
496817. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4969 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4970
ea3a6f44 497118. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4972
497319. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4974 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4975 empty pattern.
4976
497720. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4978 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4979 one IP address.
4980
ea3a6f44
NM
498121. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4982 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4983 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4984 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4985 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4986 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4987
ea3a6f44
NM
498822. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4989 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4990 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4991
499223. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4993 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4994 $sender_host_address.
4995
499624. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4997
ea3a6f44
NM
499825. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4999 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5000 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5001
500226. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5003 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5004
ea3a6f44
NM
500527. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5006 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5007
ea3a6f44
NM
500828. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5009 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5010 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5011 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5012
501329. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5014 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5015 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5016
ea3a6f44
NM
501730. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5018 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5019 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5020 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5021
ea3a6f44
NM
502231. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5023 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5024 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5025
ea3a6f44
NM
502631. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5027 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5028
ea3a6f44
NM
502932. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5030 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5031 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5032 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5033 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5034 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5035 is going on).
bbe902f0 5036
ea3a6f44
NM
503733. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5038 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5039 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5040 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5041 CAN-2005-0021
5042
ea3a6f44
NM
504334. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5044 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5045 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5046 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5047 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5048 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5049 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5050
5051 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5052 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5053 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5054 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5055 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5056 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5057 CAN-2005-0021
5058
ea3a6f44
NM
505935. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5060 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5061 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5062 CAN-2005-0022
5063
ea3a6f44
NM
506436. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5065 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5066 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5067 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5068 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5069
ea3a6f44
NM
507037. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5071 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5072 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5073 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5074 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5075
ea3a6f44
NM
507638. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5077 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5078 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5079 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5080 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5081
5082
495ae4b0
PH
5083Exim version 4.43
5084-----------------
5085
5086 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5087 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5088 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5089 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5090 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5091 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5092 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5093
5094 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5095 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5096 the delivery.
5097
5098 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5099
5100 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5101
5102 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5103 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5104 to local_scan().
5105
5106 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5107 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5108 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5109 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5110 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5111
5112 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5113 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5114
5115 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5116
5117 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5118
511910. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5120 header_sender only.
5121
512211. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5123 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5124
512512. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5126 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5127 affecting debugging statements).
5128
512913. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5130
513114. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5132 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5133 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5134 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5135 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5136 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5137 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5138 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5139 after the received time, and all would be well.
5140
514115. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5142 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5143 condition in an expansion string.
5144
514516. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5146
514717. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5148 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5149 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5150 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5151 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5152 job under whatever limits there are.
5153
515418. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5155
515619. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5157 space).
5158
515920. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5160 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5161 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5162 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5163 return path is set.
5164
516521. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5166 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5167 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5168 binary data in such strings.
5169
517022. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5171
517223. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5173 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5174 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5175 failure, which is pointless.
5176
517724. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5178
517925. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5180
518126. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5182 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5183 Sender: header lines.
5184
518527. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5186 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5187 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5188
518928. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5190 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5191 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5192 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5193 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5194 happens.
5195
519629. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5197 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5198 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5199 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5200 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5201
520230. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5203 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5204 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5205 1024.
5206
520731. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5208 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5209
521032. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5211 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5212
521333. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5214
521532. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5216
521733. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5218
521934. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5220 syntax error.
5221
522235. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5223
522436. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5225
522637. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5227 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5228 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5229 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5230
523138. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5232 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5233
5234
5235Exim version 4.42
5236-----------------
5237
5238 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5239 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5240 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5241 it was not quoted.
5242 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5243 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5244 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5245 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5246 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5247 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5248
5249 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5250 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5251 verification failure".
5252
5253 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5254 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5255 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5256 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5257
5258 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5259 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5260 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5261 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5262 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5263 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5264 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5265 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5266 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5267 treated as a timeout.
5268
5269 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5270 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5271 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5272 not set for Exim filters).
5273
5274 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5275 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5276 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5277
5278 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5279
5280 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5281 try to make them clearer.
5282
5283 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5284 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5285
5286 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5287
5288 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5289
529010. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5291 only the Cygwin environment.
5292
529311. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5294 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5295 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5296 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5297 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5298
529912. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5300 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5301 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5302 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5303 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5304 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5305 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5306
530713. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5308 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5309
531014. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5311
5312 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5313 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5314 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5315
5316 To: susanne@some.where
5317
5318 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5319 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5320 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5321 of addresses in From: header lines).
5322
5323 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5324 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5325 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5326
5327 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5328 treated as non-personal.
5329
5330 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5331 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5332
533315. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5334
533516. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5336
533717. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5338 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5339 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5340
534118. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5342 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5343
534419. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5345 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5346 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5347 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5348 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5349 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5350
535120. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5352 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5353 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5354 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5355 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5356 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5357 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5358 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5359
5360 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5361
536221. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5363 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5364
536522. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5366 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5367 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5368
536923. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5370 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5371
537224. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5373 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5374 rather than long int.
5375
537625. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5377
537826. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5379
5380
5381Exim version 4.41
5382-----------------
5383
5384 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5385 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5386 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5387 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5388 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5389 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5390
5391
5392Exim version 4.40
5393-----------------
5394
5395 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5396 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5397
5398 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5399 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5400 socklen_t is defined.
5401
5402 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5403 always exist.
5404
5405 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5406 configured.
5407
5408 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5409 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5410 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5411 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5412 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5413
5414 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5415 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5416 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5417 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5418
5419 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5420 of flapping under certain conditions.
5421
5422 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5423 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5424 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5425
5426 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5427
542810. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5429
543011. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5431 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5432 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5433 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5434
543512. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5436 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5437 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5438 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5439 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5440 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5441 preserved with the message after it was received.
5442
544313. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5444 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5445 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5446 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5447 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5448 test suite worked just fine.
5449
545014. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5451 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5452 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5453
545415. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5455 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5456 string.
5457
545816. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5459 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5460 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5461 does not fully solve it.
5462
546317. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5464 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5465 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5466 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5467 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5468
546918. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5470 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5471 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5472
547319. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5474 string, for example:
5475
5476 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5477
5478 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5479 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5480 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5481 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5482 the routers could not see them.
5483
548420. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5485 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5486
548721. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5488 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5489 output).
5490
549122. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5492 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5493 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5494 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5495 that needed quoting.
5496
549723. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5498 was not being matched caselessly.
5499
550024. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5501 backslashes.
5502
550325. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5504 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5505 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5506 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5507 when use_sender is false.
5508
550926. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5510
551127. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5512
551328. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5514
551529. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5516 the configuration file.
5517
551830. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5519 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5520
552131. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5522
552332. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5524 bytes in the message body.
5525
552633. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5527 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5528 delivery.
5529
553034. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5531
553235. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5533
553436. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5535 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5536 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5537 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5538 another IP address.
5539
5540
5541Exim version 4.34
5542-----------------
5543
5544 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5545 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5546
5547 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5548 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5549 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5550 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5551 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5552
5553 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5554 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5555
5556 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5557 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5558 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5559
5560 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5561 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5562 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5563
5564 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5565 for routers.
5566
5567 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5568 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5569 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5570 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5571 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5572 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5573 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5574
5575
5576Exim version 4.33
5577-----------------
5578
5579 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5580 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5581 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5582 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5583 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5584 default (and expected) setting.
5585
5586 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5587 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5588 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5589 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5590
5591 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5592 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5593
5594 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5595 in domain lists.
5596
5597 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5598 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5599 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5600 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5601 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5602 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5603
5604 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5605 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5606 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5607
5608 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5609 part (NOT match_host).
5610
5611 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5612
5613 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5614 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5615 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5616 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5617 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5618 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5619 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5620 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5621 the same named file.
5622
562310. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5624 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5625 when Exim is built.
5626
562711. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5628 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5629 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5630 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5631 a host name.
5632
563312. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5634 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5635 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5636
563713. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5638
563914. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5640
564115. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5642
564316. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5644 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5645
564617. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5647 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5648 before starting the TLS session.
5649
565018. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5651
565219. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5653 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5654
565520. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5656 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5657 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5658 colon in the middle).
5659
5660
5661Exim version 4.32
5662-----------------
5663
5664 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5665 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5666 multiple configurations are in use.
5667
5668 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5669 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5670 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5671 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5672 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5673 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5674
5675 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5676 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5677
5678 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5679 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5680 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5681
5682 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5683 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5684 occurs.
5685
5686 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5687 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5688
5689 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5690
5691 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5692 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5693
5694 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5695
5696 -prval:sval
5697
5698 is equivalent to
5699
5700 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5701
5702 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5703 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5704 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5705 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5706 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5707
570810. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5709 Exim's behaviour:
5710
5711 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5712 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5713 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5714 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5715 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5716 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5717
5718 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5719 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5720 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5721 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5722 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5723 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5724 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5725 string.
5726
5727 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5728 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5729 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5730 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5731 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5732
573311. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5734
573512. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5736 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5737 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5738
573913. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5740
574114. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5742 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5743 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5744 information.
5745
574615. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5747 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5748
574916. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5750 Three changes have been made:
5751
5752 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5753 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5754 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5755 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5756 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5757
5758 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5759 been restored.
5760
5761 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5762 the modified behaviour.
5763
5764
5765Exim version 4.31
5766-----------------
5767
5768 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5769 Larry Rosenman.
5770
5771 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5772 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5773
5774 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5775 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5776 try to track down a specific problem.
5777
5778 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5779 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5780 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5781
5782 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5783 warning.
5784
5785 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5786 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5787 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5788 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5789 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5790 some earlier ones do not.
5791
5792 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5793
5794 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5795 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5796 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5797 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5798 address literals are enabled, of course).
5799
5800 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5801
580210. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5803 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5804 by a command such as
5805
5806 exim -f "" ...
5807
5808 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5809
581011. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5811
581212. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5813 remained set. It is now erased.
5814
581513. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5816 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5817
581814. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5819 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5820 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5821 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5822 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5823 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5824 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5825 appropriate error code.
5826
582715. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5828 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5829 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5830 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5831 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5832 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5833
583416. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5835 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5836 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5837
583817. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5839 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5840 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5841 terminate the header.
5842
584318. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5844 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5845 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5846
584719. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5848 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5849 (4.30/29). In particular:
5850
5851 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5852 imposed.
5853
5854 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5855 to write a maildirsize file.
5856
5857 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5858 the transport, the new value overrides.
5859
5860 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5861 count.
5862
586320. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5864 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5865 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5866 space or a tab.
5867
586821. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5869 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5870 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5871 the fallback hosts.
5872
587322. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5874 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5875 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5876
587723. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5878 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5879 using a union.
5880
588124. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5882 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5883 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5884
588525. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5886
588726. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5888
588927. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5890
589128. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5892 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5893 become corrupted.
5894
589529. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5896 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5897 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5898 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5899 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5900 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5901 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5902 too great.
5903
590430. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5905 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5906 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5907 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5908 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5909 incorrectly.
5910
591131. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5912 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5913 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5914 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5915 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5916 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5917 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5918 cached value only when the same options are set.
5919
592032. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5921
592233. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5923 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5924 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5925 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5926 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5927
592834: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5929 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5930 it is clearly obsolete.
5931
593235. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5933 transport.
5934
593536. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5936 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5937 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5938 times.
5939
594037. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5941 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5942 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5943 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5944 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5945
594638. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5947 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5948 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5949 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5950
595139. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5952
5953 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5954
5955 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5956 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5957 2^31.
5958
595940. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5960 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5961 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5962 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5963 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5964 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5965 $localpart_data.
5966
596741. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5968 with the -f command-line option.
5969
597042. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5971 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5972 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5973 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5974 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5975 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5976
597743. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5978 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5979 line.
5980
598144. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5982 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5983 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5984 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5985 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5986 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5987 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5988 buffer is too small.
5989
599045. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5991 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5992
599346. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5994 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5995 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5996 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5997 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5998 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5999 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6000 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6001 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6002
600347. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6004 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6005 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6006
600748. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6008 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6009 ACL").
6010
601149. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6012 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6013 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6014 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6015 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6016
601750. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6018 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6019 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6020 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6021 is set.
6022
602351. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6024
602552. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6026
602753. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6028 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6029
603054. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6031 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6032 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6033
603455. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6035 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6036 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6037 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6038 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6039
604056. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6041 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6042 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6043 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6044 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6045 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6046 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6047
604857. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6049 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6050 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6051 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6052 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6053 the test of how many are available.
6054
605558. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6056 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6057 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6058 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6059 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6060 new message is started.
6061
606259. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6063 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6064
606560. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6066 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6067
606861. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6069 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6070 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6071 is no long logged.
6072
607362. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6074 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6075 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6076 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6077 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6078 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6079 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6080
608163. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6082 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6083 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6084 interpreted as octal.
6085
608664. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6087 setting.
6088
608965. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6090 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6091 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6092 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6093 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6094 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6095
609666. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6097 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6098 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6099 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6100
6101 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6102 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6103 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6104 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6105
6106 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6107 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6108 is a bug fix.
6109
6110 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6111 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6112
611367. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6114
611568. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6116 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6117 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6118 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6119
612069. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6121 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6122 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6123 supplied", which is not helpful.
6124
612570. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6126 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6127 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6128
612971. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6130 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6131 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6132 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6133 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6134 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6135 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6136 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6137
613872. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6139 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6140 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6141 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6142 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6143
614473. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6145 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6146 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6147 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6148 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6149 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6150
615174. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6152 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6153 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6154
615575. Added write_rejectlog option.
6156
615776. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6158 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6159 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6160 variables.
6161
616277. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6163
616478. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6165 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6166 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6167 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6168 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6169 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6170 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6171 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6172
617379. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6174 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6175 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6176 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6177 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6178
617980. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6180 Haardt.
6181
618281. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6183 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6184 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6185 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6186 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6187 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6188 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6189 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6190 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6191
6192
6193Exim version 4.30
6194-----------------
6195
6196 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6197 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6198 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6199
6200 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6201 fixed.
6202
6203 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6204 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6205 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6206
6207 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6208 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6209 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6210 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6211 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6212 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6213
6214 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6215 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6216 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6217 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6218 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6219 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6220 the Exim test suite.
6221
6222 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6223 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6224 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6225 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6226
6227 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6228 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6229 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6230 specify it in this variable.
6231
6232 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6233 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6234 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6235 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6236
6237 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6238 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6239 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6240 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6241
6242 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6243 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6244 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6245 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6246 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6247
6248 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6249
625010. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6251 they are logged.
6252
625311. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6254 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6255 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6256 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6257 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6258
625912. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6260 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6261
626213. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6263 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6264 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6265 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6266 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6267
626814. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6269 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6270
627115. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6272 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6273 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6274
627516. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6276 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6277
627817. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6279 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6280
628118. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6282 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6283 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6284
628519. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6286 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6287
628820. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6289 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6290 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6291 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6292
629321. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6294
629522. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6296 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6297 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6298 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6299
630023. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6301
630224. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6303 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6304
630525. Added .include_if_exists.
6306
630726. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6308 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6309 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6310 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6311 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6312 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6313
631427. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6315
631628. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6317 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6318 this.
6319
632029. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6321
632230. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6323 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6324
6325 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6326 550 Sender verify failed
6327
6328 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6329 the final line of the response.
6330
633131. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6332 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6333 all other user lookups.
6334
633532. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6336 delivery time.
6337
633833. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6339 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6340 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6341 result into an int without checking.
6342
634334. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6344 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6345 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
495ae4b0
PH
6346
634735. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6348 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6349 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6350 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6351
635236. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6353 correctly.
6354
635537. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6356 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6357
635838. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6359 to the empty sender.
6360
636139. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6362 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6363 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6364 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6365 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6366 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6367 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6368 panic log.
6369
637040. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6371 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6372 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6373 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6374 used.
6375
637641. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6377 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6378
637942. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6380 timestamps.
6381
638243. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6383 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6384
638544. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6386
638745. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6388 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6389 logs.
6390
639146. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6392 as soon as it is encountered.
6393
639447. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6395
639648. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6397 rewritten to "<>".
6398
639949. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6400 recognizes a tab character.
6401
640250. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6403 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6404 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6405 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6406
640751. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6408
640952. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6410 crash.
6411
641253. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6413
641454. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6415
641655. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6417 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6418 2822.
6419
642056. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6421 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6422 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6423 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6424 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6425
642657. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6427 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6428
642958. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6430 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6431 list (.included file names were always shown).
6432
643359. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6434 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6435 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6436 root at that time.
6437
643860. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6439 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6440
644161. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6442
644362. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6444
644563. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6446
644764. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6448 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6449 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6450 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6451 failures to open the logs.
6452
645365. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6454 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6455 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6456 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6457 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6458 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6459 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6460
6461
6462Exim version 4.24
6463-----------------
6464
6465 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6466 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6467 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6468 change 4.23/1.
6469
6470 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6471 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6472 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6473
6474 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6475 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6476 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6477
6478 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6479 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6480 causing some misleading effects.
6481
6482 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6483 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6484 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6485
6486 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6487 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6488 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6489 queue-runner function directly.
6490
6491
6492Exim version 4.23
6493-----------------
6494
6495 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6496 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6497
6498 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6499 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6500 was always written to the default place.
6501
6502 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6503 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6504 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6505
6506 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6507
6508 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6509
6510 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6511 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6512 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6513
6514 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6515 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6516 must start.
6517
6518 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6519 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6520 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6521
6522 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6523 command line option is disabled.
6524
6525 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6526 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6527
6528 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6529
6530 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6531
6532 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6533 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6534
653510. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6536
653711. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6538 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6539 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6540 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6541 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6542 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6543
654412. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6545 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6546 timeout.
6547
654813. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6549 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6550
655114. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6552 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6553
655415. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6555 received was valid base64.
6556
655716. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6558 name of the variable that was being set.
6559
656017. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6561
656218. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6563 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6564 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6565 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6566 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6567 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6568
656919. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6570
657120. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6572 nor realm was specified.
6573
657421. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6575 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6576 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6577 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6578
657922. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6580 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6581 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6582
658323. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6584 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6585 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6586
658724. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6588 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6589 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6590 some systems use these upper case variants.
6591
659225. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6593 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6594 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6595 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6596
659726. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6598
659927. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6600 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6601
660228. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6603 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6604 expansion variable.
6605
660629. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6607
660830. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6609 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6610 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6611 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6612
661331. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6614 using it.
6615
661632. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6617 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6618 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6619
662033. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6621 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6622
662334. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6624 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6625 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6626 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6627
662835. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6629 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6630 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6631
663236. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6633
663437. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6635 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6636 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6637 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6638 aborted.
6639
664038. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6641 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6642 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6643
664439. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6645
664640. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6647 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6648
664941. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6650 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6651
665242. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6653 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6654 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6655 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6656 when emails are that large.
6657
6658
6659
6660Exim version 4.22
6661-----------------
6662
6663 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6664 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6665
6666 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6667 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6668 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6669
6670 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6671 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6672 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6673
6674 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6675 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6676 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6677 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6678 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6679
6680 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6681 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6682 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6683 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6684 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6685 ever.
6686
6687 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6688 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6689 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6690 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6691 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6692 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6693 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6694 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6695 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6696 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6697 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6698 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6699 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6700 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6701
6702 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6703 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6704 parameterised it.
6705
6706 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6707 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6708 error should be diagnosed.
6709
6710 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6711 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6712 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6713 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6714 appeared instead of "NULL".
6715
671610. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6717 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6718 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6719 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6720 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6721 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6722 proceeds).
6723
6724 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6725 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6726 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6727
6728
6729Exim version 4.21
6730-----------------
6731
6732 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6733 or receiver verification errors.
6734
6735 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6736 name.
6737
6738 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6739 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6740 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6741 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6742
6743 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6744 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6745 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6746 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6747 shouldn't happen again.
6748
6749 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6750 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6751 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6752
6753 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6754 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6755
6756 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6757
6758 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6759 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6760
6761 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6762 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6763 RFC.
6764
676510. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6766 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6767 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6768
676911. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6770 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6771 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6772 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6773
677412. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6775 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6776 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6777 to define what should happen).
6778
677913. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6780 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6781 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6782
678314. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6784
678515. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6786
678716. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6788 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6789
4c04137d 679017. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
6791 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6792 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6793 structure in all cases.
6794
6795 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6796 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6797 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6798 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6799
680018. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6801 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6802 domain name.
6803
680419. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6805 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6806
680720. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6808 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6809
681021. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6811 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6812 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6813
681422. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6815 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6816 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6817
681823. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6819 the book and for uniformity.
6820
682124. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6822
682325. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6824 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
6825 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6826 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6827 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6828 non-existent command as the problem.
6829
683026. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6831 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6832 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6833
683427. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6835
683628. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6837 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6838 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6839
684029. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6841 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6842 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6843 timestamps using strftime().
6844
684530. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6846 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6847
684832. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6849 transport-time rewrites.
6850
685133. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6852 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6853 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6854 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6855
685634. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6857 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6858
685935. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6860 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6861 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6862 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6863 comma and a space.
6864
686536. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6866 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6867 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6868 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6869 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6870 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6871 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6872
687337. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6874 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6875 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6876 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6877 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6878
687938. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6880 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6881 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6882 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6883 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6884 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6885 remaining text gets split now.
6886
688739. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6888 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6889 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6890 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6891
689240. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6893 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6894 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6895 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6896 $return_path.
6897
689841. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6899 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6900 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6901 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6902 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6903 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6904 passed through if needed.
6905
690642. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6907 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6908 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6909 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6910 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6911 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6912
691343. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6914 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6915 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6916 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6917 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6918
691944. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6920 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6921 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6922 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6923 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6924
692545. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6926 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6927 noticed.
6928
692946. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6930 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6931 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6932 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6933 mayhem of various kinds.
6934
693547. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6936 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6937 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
6938 the right test for positive values.
6939
694048. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6941 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6942 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6943 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6944 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6945 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6946 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6947 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6948 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6949 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6950 envelope.
6951
695249. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6953 module.
6954
695550. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6956 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6957 forbidding it.
6958
695951. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6960 the existing equality matching.
6961
696252. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6963 dealing with inode numbers.
6964
696553. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6966 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6967 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6968
696954. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6970 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6971 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6972 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6973 local_scan().
6974
697555. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6976 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6977 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6978 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6979 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6980 relay addresses has also been removed.
6981
698256. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6983
698457. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6985 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6986 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6987
698858. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6989 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6990 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6991 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6992 processing applies to CR:
6993
6994 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6995 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6996
6997 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6998 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6999 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7000 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7001
700259. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7003 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7004 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7005
700660. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7007 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7008 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7009 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7010 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7011 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7012 arisen.
7013
701461. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7015 program routers.
7016
701762. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7018 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7019 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7020 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7021 adds:
7022
7023 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7024
7025 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7026
7027 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7028
702963. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7030 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7031 not considered personal.
7032
703364. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7034
703565. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7036
703766. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7038
703967. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7040 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7041 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7042 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7043 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7044 header lines, and spool format errors.
7045
704668. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7047 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7048 for more flexibility.
7049
705069. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7051 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7052 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7053
705470. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7055 Sabourenkov.
7056
705771. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7058 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7059 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7060 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7061 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7062 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7063 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7064 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7065 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7066
706772. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7068 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7069 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7070 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7071 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7072 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7073 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7074
707573. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7076 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7077 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7078
707974. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7080 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7081 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7082 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7083 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7084 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7085 instead of killing the process with assert().
7086
708775. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7088 than Unicode encoding.
7089
709076. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7091 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7092 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7093 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7094
709577. Added process_log_path.
7096
709778. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7098 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7099
710079. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7101 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7102
710380. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7104 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7105 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7106
710781. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7108 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7109 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7110 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7111 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7112 were applied:
7113
7114 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7115 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7116 as invalid.
7117
711882. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7119 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7120 they will be used during message reception.
7121
7122
7123Exim version 4.20
7124-----------------
7125
7126The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7127
7128****