DSN: Under EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO add extras to bounce messages. Bug 1686
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
8 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
9 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
10 client dropping the TLS connection.
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12TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
13 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
14
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15TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
16 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
17 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
18 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
19 outgoing I= field.
20
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21JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
22 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
23 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
24 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
25 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
26 check on the next write.
27
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28HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
29 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
30 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
31 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
32 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
33
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34JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
35 mime_regex ACL conditions.
36
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37JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
38 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
39 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
40
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44JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
45 expanded.
46
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47JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
48
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49JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
50 it.
51
01a4a5c5 52JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 53 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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54 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
55 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
56
cb1d7830 57JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 58 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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59 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
60
610ff438 61JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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62 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
63 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
64 TLS connections
610ff438 65
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66JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
67 sites use this now.
68
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69JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
70 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
71 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
72 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
73 have a dsn_lasthop option.
74
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75JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
76 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 77 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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79JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
80
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81JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
82 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
83
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84JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
85 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
86
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87JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
88 /defer_ok option.
89
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90JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
91 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
92
fd4d8871 93JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 94 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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95 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
96
97JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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98 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
99 specify a port-range.
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101JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
102 timeout value per server.
103
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104JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
105 now have the list separator specified.
106
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107JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
108 option values.
109
82c0c8ea 110JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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111 under OpenSSL.
112
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113JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
114
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115JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
116 rather than the verbs used.
117
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118JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
119 from 255 to 1024 chars.
120
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121JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
122
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123HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
124 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 125
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126JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
127 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
128
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129HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
130 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
131
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132JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
133
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134JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
135
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136JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
137 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
138 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
139 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
140
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141JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
142
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143JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
144 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
145
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146JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
147 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
148
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149JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
150
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151JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
152
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153JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
154
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155JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
156 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
157
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158JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
159 added for tls authenticator.
160
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162Exim version 4.85
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164TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
165 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
166 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
167 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
168 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
169 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
170 the script parsing/test process like normal.
171
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172TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
173 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
174 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
175 function when detected.
176
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177JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
178 cause callback expansion.
179
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180TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
181 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
182 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
183 instead of bool when processing it.
184
0f06b4f2 185JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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186 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
187
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188JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
189
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190JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
191
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192TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
193
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194TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
195 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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197JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
198 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
199 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
200 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
201 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
202 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
203
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204JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
205 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
206 exceeded it.
207
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208JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
209 version 3.3.6 or later.
210
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211JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
212 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
213 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 214 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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215 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
216 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
217 option is defined.
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219TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
220 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
221
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222JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
223 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
224 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
225 matches.
226
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227JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
228 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
229 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
230
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231JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
232 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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234JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
235 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
236 syntax errors.
237
3394b36a 238JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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239
240JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
241 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
242
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243TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
244 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
245 tarball.
246
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247JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
248
249JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
250 Bug 1561.
251
252JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
253 output list separator was used.
254
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258TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
259 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
260 return.
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262JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
263 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
264
265JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
266
267TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 268 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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273
274TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
275
276 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
277 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
278 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
279 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
280 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
281 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
282
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283TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
284 utilities have not been installed.
285
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286JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
287 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
288
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289TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
290 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
291
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292TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
293 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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294 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
295 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 296
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297JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
298
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299TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
300 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
301
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302PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
303 not dns_use_dnssec.
304
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305JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
306
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307TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
308 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
309 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
310
8ddef691 311TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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312 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
313 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
314 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
315 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 316 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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318JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
319
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320JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
321 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
322
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323JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
324 failed delivery.
325
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326JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
327
511a6c14 328JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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329
330JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
331 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 332
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333JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
334 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
335
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336TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
337
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338JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
339
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340JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
341 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
342
343 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
344 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
345 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
346
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347TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
348 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
349 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
350 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 351
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352JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
353
8c51eead 354JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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355 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
356 lookup).
8c51eead 357
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358TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
359 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
360 Schlichting.
35aba663 361
fd3b6a4a 362JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 363 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 364
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365TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
366 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
367
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368JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
369
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370TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
371 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
372 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
373
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374JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
375 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
376
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377JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
378 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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379 hosts_request_ocsp.
380
ed3bba5f 381JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 382 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 383 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 384
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385JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
386
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387TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
388 Christian Aistleitner.
389
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390JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
391
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392TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
393 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
394
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395JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
396 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
397
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398JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
399 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
400
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401TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
402 support and error reporting did not work properly.
403
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404TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
405 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
406
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407TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
408 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
409 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
410
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411JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
412
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413PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
414 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
415 Jasper Wallace.
416
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417JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
418
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419TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
420 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
421 CVE-2014-2972
422
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426
427PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
428
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429PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
430 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
431
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432PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
433 by GnuTLS.
434
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435PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
436 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
437 routines.
438
13363eba 439PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 440
66645890 441PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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442 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
443 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
444 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
445 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 446
a3fb9793 447PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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448 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
449 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
450 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 451 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 452 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 453
d27f98fe 454TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 455
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456TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
457
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458TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
459 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
460
ae0e32ee 461TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 462 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 463 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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464
465TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 466
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467TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
468
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469TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
470 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
471
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472JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
473
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474JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
475
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476PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
477
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478NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
479 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 480
585121e2 481JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 482
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483PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
484 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
485 function.
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487PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
488 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
489
bef3ea7f
JH
490JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
491 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
492 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 493
846726c5
JH
494JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
495
3a796370
JH
496JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
497
ea722490 498JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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PP
499 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
500
b1b05573
JH
501JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
502 Bugzilla 884.
503
362145b5
JH
504JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
505 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
506
3c0a92dc
JH
507JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
508 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
509
6d7c6175
PP
510PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
511 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 512 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 513
6f123593
JH
514JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
515 authenticators.
516
c8e2fc1e
JH
517JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
518 for control.
519
005ac57f
PP
520PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
521
3f1df0e3
PP
522PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
523 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
524 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
525 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
526
67bd1ab3
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527TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
528
529 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
530 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
531 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
532 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
533 the retry rules.
534
535 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
536 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
537 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
538
539 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
540 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
541 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
542 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
543
1ddeb334
TF
544 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
545 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
546 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
547 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
548 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
549 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
550 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
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551
552 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
553 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
554
326cdc37
TF
555TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
556
557 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
558
559 Resent-From: f
560
561 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
562 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
563 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
564 username as equal to the username.
565
566 This change corrects that bug.
567
f62514b3
GF
568GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
569 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
570 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
571
eb505532
TF
572TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
573
14c7b357
PP
574PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
575 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
576 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
577 NULL dereference and crash.
578
94eaf700
PP
579JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
580
6f5a440a
PP
581PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
582 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
583 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
584
514ee161
SC
585SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
586
fd98a5c6
JH
587JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
588 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
589 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
590 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
591 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
592 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
593 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
594 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
595 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
596 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
597 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
598
035c7f1e
PP
599PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
600 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
601
ff284120
PP
602PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
603 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
604 Bugzilla 880.
605
26e72755
PP
606PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
607 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
608 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
609 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
610 an empty string is now equivalent.
611
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612PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
613 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
614 not performing validation itself.
615
700d22f3
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616PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
617 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
618
fcc8e047
JH
619JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
620 Bugzilla 321, 823.
621
7142daca
PP
622TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
623
8c020188
PP
624PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
625 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
626 other false fix of the same issue.
627 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
628 Bugzilla 1363.
629
d13cdd30
PP
630PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
631 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
632
e2fbf4a2
PP
633PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
634 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
635 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
636
f4c1088b
PP
637PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
638 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
639 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
640
c5c2182f
PP
641TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
642
73431ca9
JH
643JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
644
2d07a215
TL
645TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
646 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
647
a30a8861
TL
648TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
649 Alexander Miroch.
650
33382dd9
TL
651TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
652 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
653 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
654 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
655 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 656
046172e6
TL
657TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
658 the src/util/ subdirectory.
659
581d7bee 660TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 661 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
662 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
663
664TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
665 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
666 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
667 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
668
237b2cf2
TL
669TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
670
9fc5a352
TL
671TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
672 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
673 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 674
b10e4ec2
TL
675TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
676
e2cebd74
TL
677TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
678 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
679 interaction.
680
681TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
682 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
683
2519e60d
TL
684TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
685 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
686
e78e6ecf 687
4263f395
PP
688Exim version 4.80.1
689-------------------
690
691PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
692 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 693 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 694
ea722490 695
b1770b6e 696Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
697-----------------
698
699PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
700 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
701 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
702
23c7e742
NM
703NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
704
b322aac8
NM
705NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
706 improved.
707
4a891427
NM
708NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
709
c1e794ba 710PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 711
97753960
PP
712PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
713
714PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
715 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
716
df6303fa
PP
717PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
718 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
719
7e6a8985
PP
720PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
721 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
722
f1e05cc7 723PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
724 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
725 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 726
4c287009
PP
727PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
728
b98bb9ac
PP
729PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
730 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
731
4a6a987a
PP
732PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
733
c45dd180 734PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 735
7db8d074
PP
736PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
737 non-compliant senders.
738 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
739
eae0036b 740NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
741 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
742 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
743
dec5017e
PP
744PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
745 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
746 in spool file corruption.
747
c80c5570
PP
748PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
749 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
750 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
751 "Got SSL error 2".
752
076b11e2
PP
753TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
754 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
755 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
756
5407bfff
JH
757JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
758 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
759
9e45c72b
PP
760JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
761
e74376d8
PP
762PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
763 diagnostics.
764 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
765
da3ad30d
PP
766PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
767 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
768 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
769
7be682ca
PP
770PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
771 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
772 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
773 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 774
ef840681
PP
775PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
776 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
777
5bfb4cdf
PP
778PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
779 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
780 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
781 resolver implementation change.
782
c6e95d22
PP
783PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
784 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
785
9cbad13b
PP
786PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
787
9ee44efb
PP
788PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
789
6a6084f8
PP
790PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
791 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
792
12dd53c7
PP
793PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
794 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
795
9e45c72b 796JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
797 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
798
17c76198
PP
799PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
800 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
801 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
802 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 803 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 804
53947857 805PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 806
eae0036b 807PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
808 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
809 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 810
9e45c72b 811JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 812
7390e768
PP
813PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
814 read-only, out of scope).
815 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
816
08488c86
PP
817PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
818 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
819 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
820 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
821
6475bd82
PP
822PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
823
81f91683
PP
824PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
825 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
826 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
827 real issues in debug logging.
828
5779e6aa
PP
829PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
830 assignment on my part. Fixed.
831
3375e053
PP
832PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
833 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
834 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
835
836PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
837 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
838 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
839 problems.
3375e053 840
9d26b8c0
PP
841PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
842 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
843
57eb9e91 844PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
845 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
846 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
847 needs to override this, it can.
848
16880d1a
PP
849PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
850 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
851 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
852
a799883d
PP
853PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
854 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
855 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
856 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
857
3ecab157 858PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 859
0599f9cf 860
867fcbf5
PP
861Exim version 4.77
862-----------------
863
864PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
865 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
866
f1a29782
TF
867TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
868
ab42bd23
TK
869TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
870 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 871
0ca0cf52
TF
872TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
873 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
874
921b12ca
TF
875TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
876 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
877 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
878
879 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
880 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
881 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
882 not safe for signals.
883
884 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
885 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
886 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
887 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
888 exiwhat.
889
c99ce5c9
TF
890TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
891
892 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
893 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
894 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
895 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
896 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
897
898 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
899 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
900 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
901 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
902 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
903 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
904
905 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
906 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
907 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
908 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
909
910 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
911 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
912 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
913 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
914
915 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
916 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
917 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
918 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
919 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
920 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
921 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
922 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
923 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
924
925 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
926 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
927 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
928 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
929
930 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
931 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
932 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
933 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
934 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
935 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
936 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
937 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
938 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
939 details in the main documentation.
940
3634fc25
TF
941TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
942
792e8a19
TF
943TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
944
5901f0ab
TF
945TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
946 repository when doing development or release builds.
947
7f2a2a43
PP
948PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
949 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 950
061b7ebd
PP
951PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
952 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
953 Bugzilla 97.
954
e12f8c32
PP
955PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
956
9e949f00 957PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
958 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
959
960PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
961 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 962
555ae6af 963PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
964 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
965
966PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
967 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 968
6f7fe114
PP
969PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
970 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
971
c566dd90
PP
972PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
973 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
974 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
975 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 976
d6cc7c78 977PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
978 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
979 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
980
0d0e4455
PP
981PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
982
3399bb60 983PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
984
985PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
986 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
987
0ca0cf52 988
10906672
PP
989Exim version 4.76
990-----------------
991
992PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
993
754a0503
PP
994PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
995 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
996
c0c7b2da
PP
997PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
998
e97d1f08
PP
999PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1000
084c1d8c
PP
1001PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1002 Bugzilla 1098.
1003
4e7ee012
PP
1004PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1005 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1006
c8d52a00
PP
1007TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1008 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1009
54e7ce4a
PP
1010PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1011 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1012
5ee6f336
PP
1013PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1014 Bugzilla 1104.
1015
c8d52a00 1016TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1017 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1018
1019TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1020 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1021 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1022 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1023
1024PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1025 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1026
10906672 1027
aa097c4c
NM
1028Exim version 4.75
1029-----------------
1030
4c9ef03a 1031NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1032 Bugzilla 1073
1033
7f3d9eff
TF
1034TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1035 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1036 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1037
159f52d2
TF
1038TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1039 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1040
0cc9542a
PP
1041PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1042 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1043 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1044
f7274286
PP
1045PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1046 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1047
7b797365
PP
1048PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1049 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1050
caacae52
NM
1051NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1052 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1053
09dcaba9
NM
1054NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1055 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1056
bc19a55b
PP
1057PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1058 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1059
bd4c9759
NM
1060NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1061 Fixes bug 943.
1062
b72aab72
PP
1063PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1064 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1065
2fe76745
PP
1066PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1067 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1068
76aa570c
PP
1069PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1070 SQL string expansion failure details.
1071 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1072
f1e5fef5
PP
1073PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1074 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1075
4d805ee9
PP
1076PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1077 extern declarations in function scope.
1078 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1079
cd59ab18
PP
1080PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1081 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1082 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1083 a kernel bug).
1084
332f5cf3
PP
1085PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1086 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1087
29cfeb94
PP
1088PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1089 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1090
660242ad
PP
1091PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1092 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1093
bc4bc4c5
PP
1094PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1095 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1096
2e64baa9
NM
1097NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1098 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1099 Dennis Davis.
1100
bddd7526
PP
1101PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1102
6bac1a9a
PP
1103PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1104
552193f0
NM
1105NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1106 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1107
1b587e48
TF
1108TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1109 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1110
aa097c4c 1111
8c07b69f
TF
1112Exim version 4.74
1113-----------------
1114
1115TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1116 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1117
c0ea85ab
TF
1118TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1119 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1120
0761d44e
TF
1121TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1122
0a349494
PP
1123DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1124 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1125 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1126
1127PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1128 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1129 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1130
fea24b2e
PP
1131PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1132 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1133 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1134 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1135
6545de78
PP
1136PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1137 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1138 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1139 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1140
1670ef10
PP
1141PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1142 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1143 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1144 arbitrary files.
1145
c0886197
PP
1146PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1147 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1148
b7487bce
PP
1149PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1150 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1151 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1152 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1153 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1154
8c07b69f 1155
97fd1e48 1156Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1157-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1158
1159PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1160 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1161 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1162
6901c596
PP
1163PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1164 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1165
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1166JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1167
77bb000f
PP
1168PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1169
a29e5231
PP
1170PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1171
ec5a0394 1172PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1173
55c75993
PP
1174PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1175
453a6645 1176PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1177 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1178 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1179 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1180
8544e77a
PP
1181PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1182 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1183 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1184 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1185 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1186
83e029d5
PP
1187PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1188
ed7f7860
PP
1189PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1190
7d9f747b
PP
1191PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1192
4b2241d2
PP
1193PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1194
10385c15
PP
1195PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1196
dbc4b90d
PP
1197PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1198
532be449
PP
1199PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1200
6a8de854 1201PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1202 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1203 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1204
5dc43717
JJ
1205JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1206
1207JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1208 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1209
3346ab01
PP
1210PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1211 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1212
491fab4c
PP
1213PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1214 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1215 Notification from John Horne.
1216
13eb9497
PP
1217PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1218 compatible.
1219
1220PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1221 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1222 it normally works.
1223
7f36d675
DW
1224DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1225 access.
1226
c1d94452
DW
1227DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1228 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1229 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1230
e2f5dc15
DW
1231DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1232 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1233 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1234 configuration file.
1235
cd25e41d
DW
1236DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1237 option (effectively making it always true).
1238
261dc43e
DW
1239DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1240 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1241
fa32850b
DW
1242DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1243 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1244
79d4bc3d
PP
1245PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1246 run-time user, instead of root.
1247
43236f35 1248PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1249 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1250
fb08281f
DW
1251DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1252 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1253 arguments.
3346ab01 1254
74935b98
DW
1255DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1256 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1257 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1258
90b6341f
DW
1259DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1260
57730b52
ML
1261NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1262
66581d1e 1263
465e92cf
JJ
1264Exim version 4.72
1265-----------------
1266
453a6645
PP
1267JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1268 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1269 typos
465e92cf 1270
453a6645
PP
1271JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1272 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1273 (Finput)
edae0343 1274
9bd3e22c
NM
1275NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1276 Patch from Alain Williams
1277
bb576ff7
NM
1278NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1279
5a1a5845
NM
1280NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1281 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1282
981a9fad
NM
1283NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1284 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1285
7fc497ee
NM
1286NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1287
1a41defa
JJ
1288JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1289
a466095c 1290NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1291 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1292
94a6bd0b
NM
1293TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1294
1295TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1296
1297MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1298 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1299 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1300
c1b141a8
NM
1301NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1302 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1303
b26eacf1 1304NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1305 Patch by Simon Arlott
1306
179c5980 1307PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1308 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1309
9bd3e22c 1310
7c6d71af
NM
1311Exim version 4.71
1312-----------------
1313
7d9f747b 1314TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1315
f013fb92
NM
1316NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1317
0eb8eedd
NM
1318NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1319
663ee6d9
NM
1320NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1321
177ebd9b
NM
1322NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1323
7c6d71af 1324
210f147e
NM
1325Exim version 4.70
1326-----------------
1327
cdd3bb85 1328TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1329 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1330
1331TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1332 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1333 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1334
1335TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1336 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1337 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1338
1339TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1340 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1341
210f147e
NM
1342NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1343 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1344 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1345 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1346
deafd5b3
NM
1347NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1348 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1349 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1350
089793a4
TF
1351TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1352
5f16ca82
TF
1353TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1354
dae9d94e 1355NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1356 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1357
7d9f747b 1358NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1359
06864c44
TF
1360TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1361 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1362 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1363 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1364
65a7d8c3 1365NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1366 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1367
23510047 1368TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1369
7d9f747b 1370NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1371
7d8eec3a 1372NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1373 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1374
89dec7b6
TF
1375TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1376 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1377
a99de90c
TF
1378TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1379 that they are available at delivery time.
1380
e2803e40
TF
1381TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1382
7199e1ee
TF
1383TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1384 incoming_port log selectors.
1385
e276e04b
TF
1386TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1387 setting expands to an empty string.
1388
ce552449 1389NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1390 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1391
e765a0f1 1392NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1393 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1394
4f054c63 1395NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1396 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1397
7d9f747b
PP
1398NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1399 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1400
7d9f747b
PP
1401NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1402 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1403
b52bc06e 1404NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1405 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1406
447de4b0
NM
1407NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1408
4c69d561 1409NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1410 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1411
d5c39246 1412NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1413 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1414
0b23848a
TK
1415TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1416
8f3414a1 1417NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1418 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1419
fb6f955d
NM
1420NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1421
1422NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1423
7d9f747b
PP
1424NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1425 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1426
7d9f747b
PP
1427NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1428 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1429
7d9f747b
PP
1430NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1431 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1432
7d9f747b
PP
1433NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1434 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1435
7d9f747b
PP
1436NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1437 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1438
7d9f747b
PP
1439NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1440 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1441
7d9f747b
PP
1442NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1443 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1444
7d9f747b 1445NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1446 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1447
7d9f747b 1448NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1449
7d9f747b
PP
1450NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1451 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1452
7d9f747b 1453NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1454
7d9f747b 1455NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1456
7d9f747b 1457NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1458
7d9f747b 1459NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1460
17792b53 1461NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1462 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1463
7d9f747b
PP
1464NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1465 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1466
91576cec 1467NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1468 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1469
7d9f747b
PP
1470NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1471 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1472
7d9f747b 1473NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1474
7d9f747b 1475NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1476
7d9f747b 1477NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1478
7d9f747b 1479NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1480
deafd5b3 1481
47db1125
NM
1482Exim version 4.69
1483-----------------
1484
4b3504d0
TK
1485TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1486 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1487 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1488
1489 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1490 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1491 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1492 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1493 build errors in sieve.c.
1494
81ea09ca
NM
1495NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1496 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1497 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1498
f13cddcb
SC
1499SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1500
7d9f747b 1501NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1502
7d9f747b 1503NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1504
7d9f747b 1505NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
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1506
1507
eb4c0de6
PH
1508Exim version 4.68
1509-----------------
1510
1511PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1512
6a3bceb1
PH
1513PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1514 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1515 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1516 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1517 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1518 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1519 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1520 for iplsearch lookups.
1521
1522 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1523 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1524 previously such lookups could never work.
1525
1526 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1527 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1528 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1529
2e30fa9d
TK
1530TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1531 version.
1532
0806a9c5
MH
1533MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1534 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1535 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1536 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1537 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1538 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1539
ae276964
TK
1540TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1541 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1542
0f2cbd1b
MH
1543MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1544 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1545 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1546 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1547 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1548 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1549
2b85bce7
PH
1550PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1551 local_scan API.
1552
93655c46
PH
1553PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1554
6c512171
PH
1555PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1556 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1557 encrypted.
1558
1559PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1560 by clients under certain conditions.
1561
aa6dc513
PH
1562PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1563 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1564
a96603a0
PH
1565PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1566
8f240103
PH
1567PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1568 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1569
1570PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1571
d677b2f2
PH
1572PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1573
d52120f2
PH
1574PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1575
64f2600a
PH
1576PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1577 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1578
8669f003
PH
1579PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1580
a4dc33a8
PH
1581PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1582 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1583
d6a60c0f
PH
1584PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1585
8f128379
PH
1586PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1587
8932dffe
PH
1588PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1589 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1590 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1591 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1592
ddea74fa 1593PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1594 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1595 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1596
ddea74fa 1597PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1598 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1599
ddea74fa
PH
1600PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1601
ce9f225c
PH
1602PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1603
19897d52
PH
1604PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1605
bc64a74d
PH
1606PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1607 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1608 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1609
eb4c0de6 1610
b4ed4da0
PH
1611Exim version 4.67
1612-----------------
1613
22ad45c9
MH
1614MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1615 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1616 Jan Srzednicki.
1617
b4ed4da0
PH
1618PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1619 issue a MAIL command.
1620
431b7361
PH
1621PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1622
1623 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1624
1625 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1626 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1627 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1628 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1629 item. This has been fixed.
1630
1631PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1632 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1633
83da1223
PH
1634PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1635 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1636
54fc8428
PH
1637PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1638 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1639 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1640
34c5e8dd
SC
1641SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1642
bbe15da8
PH
1643PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1644 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1645 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1646 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1647 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1648
0e8a9471
MH
1649MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1650 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1651 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1652
f0872424
PH
1653PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1654 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1655 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1656 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1657
b01dd148
PH
1658PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1659
6bf342e1
PH
1660PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1661
273f34d0
PH
1662PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1663 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1664 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1665 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1666 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1667
cf8b11a5
PH
1668PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1669
41c7c167
PH
1670PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1671 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1672 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1673 values).
1674
9c57cbc0
PH
1675PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1676
f3f065bb
PH
1677PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1678
047bdd8c
PH
1679PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1680
0ce9abe6
PH
1681PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1682
0e22dfd1
PH
1683PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1684
4c590bd1
PH
1685PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1686 no_callout_flush is set.
1687
09945f1e
PH
1688PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1689 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1690 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1691 fixed.
1692
c51b8e75
PH
1693PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1694
e28326d8
PH
1695PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1696 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1697 other ACL rejections are.
1698
75b1493f
PH
1699PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1700 with slight modification.
1701
7c5214ec
PH
1702PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1703 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1704
4311097e
PH
1705PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1706 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1707 connection.
1708
29f89cad
PH
1709PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1710 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1711
5e687460
SC
1712SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1713
c3611384
PH
1714PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1715 expansion side effects.
1716
5a11a7b4
PH
1717PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1718 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1719 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1720 be the same.
1721
0e20aff9
MH
1722MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1723 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1724 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1725
ca86f471
PH
1726PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1727 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1728 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1729 were accidentally chopped off.
1730
a14e5636
PH
1731PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1732 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1733 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1734 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1735 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1736 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1737 pipelining has not been advertised.
1738
ec95d1a6
PH
1739PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1740
42855d71
PH
1741PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1742 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1743 This has been fixed.
1744
57c2c631
PH
1745PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1746 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1747 reported on Solaris.
1748
58c01c94
PH
1749PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1750 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1751 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1752 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1753 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1754 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1755 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1756
dee5a20a
PH
1757PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1758 cpus.
1759
d2ee6114
PH
1760PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1761
b2d5182b
PH
1762PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1763
79749a79
PH
1764PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1765 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1766 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1767 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1768 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1769 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1770
c456d9bb
PH
1771PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1772 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1773 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1774 host_all_ignored option.
1775
cd9868ec
PH
1776PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1777 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1778 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1779 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1780 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1781 is what is supposed to happen).
1782
ebeaf996
PH
1783PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1784 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1785 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1786 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1787 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1788 uses the Exim user.
1789
2679d413
PH
1790PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1791 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1792 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1793 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1794 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1795 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1796 users.
1797
84024b72
PH
1798PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1799
8005d38e
SC
1800SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1801 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1802 (Jez Hancock).
1803 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1804 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1805
3298c6c6
SC
1806SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1807
a43a27c5
PH
1808PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1809
58eb016e 1810PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1811 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1812 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1813 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1814 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1815 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1816 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1817 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1818 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1819 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1820 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1821
b43a74ea
PH
1822PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1823 advertised in response to EHLO.
1824
b4ed4da0 1825
5dd1517f
PH
1826Exim version 4.66
1827-----------------
1828
1829PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1830 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1831
1832 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1833 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1834
1835 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1836 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1837 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1838
1839 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1840 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1841 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1842 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1843 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1844
1845
93cfa765
TK
1846Exim version 4.65
1847-----------------
1848
1849TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1850 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1851 versions. (#438)
1852
d6066548
MH
1853MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1854 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1855 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1856
4362ff0d
PH
1857PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1858 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1859 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1860 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1861 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1862 rather than extend the field.
1863
93cfa765 1864
944e9e9c
TF
1865Exim version 4.64
1866-----------------
aa41d2de 1867
21d74bd9
TK
1868TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1869 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1870 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1871 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1872 these files.
1873
1874TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1875 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1876 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1877
1878TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1879 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1880 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1881
1882TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1883 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1884 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1885 in the field name.
1886
2b1c6e3a
PH
1887PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1888 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1889 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1890 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1891 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1892 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1893 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1894 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1895 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1896 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1897 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1898
1f872c80
PH
1899PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1900 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1901
1902PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1903 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1904 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1905 ignores EPIPE as well.
1906
d203e649
PH
1907PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1908 (quoted-printable decoding).
1909
cc2ed8f7 1910PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1911 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1912
ddfcd446
PH
1913PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1914
d45b1de8
PH
1915PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1916
1917PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1918
38a0a95f 1919PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1920 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1921
a2405d83
JJ
1922JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1923 in 4.64-PH/09.
1924
1925JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1926 miscellaneous code fixes
1927
6ea85e9a
PH
1928PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1929 rejections.
1930
26da7e20
PH
1931PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1932 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1933 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1934 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1935 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1936 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1937 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1938 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1939
14aa5a05 1940PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1941 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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1942 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1943 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1944 function.
1945 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1946 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1947 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1948 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1949 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1950 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1951 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1952 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1953 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1954
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1955PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1956 decoding.
1957
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1958PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1959 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1960 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1961 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1962 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1963 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1964 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1965 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1966
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1967PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1968 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1969 list.
1970
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1971PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1972 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1973 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1974 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1975 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1976 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1977 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1978 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1979 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1980 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1981 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1982 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1983 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1984
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1985PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1986 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1987 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1988 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1989 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1990 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1991 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1992
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1993PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1994 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1995 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1996 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1997 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1998 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1999 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2000 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2001 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2002 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2003
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2004PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2005 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2006 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2007 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2008 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2009
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2010PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2011 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2012 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2013 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2014 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2015 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2016 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2017
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2018PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2019 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2020 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2021 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2022 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2023 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2024 been verified.
2025
48da4259 2026PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
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2027 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2028 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2029 and authorization.)
2030
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2031PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2032 if any retry times were supplied.
2033
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2034PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2035 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2036 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2037
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2038PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2039
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2040PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2041
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2042PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2043 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2044 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2045 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
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2046 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2047 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2048
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2049PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2050 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2051
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2052PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2053 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2054 committing the later change.]
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2055
2056PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2057 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2058 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2059 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2060 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2061 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2062 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2063 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2064 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2065
2066 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2067 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2068 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2069 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2070 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2071 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2072 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2073 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2074 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2075
2076 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2077 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2078 hammering the server.
2079
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2080PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2081 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2082
7a0743eb
PH
2083PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2084
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PH
2085PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2086 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2087 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2088
1bf43b78
PH
2089PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2090 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2091 one case where this was not true.
2092
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2093PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2094 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2095 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2096 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2097 fails.
2098
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2099PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2100 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2101 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2102 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2103 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2104 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2105 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2106 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2107 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2108 smtp transport.
2109
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2110PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2111 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2112 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2113 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2114
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2115PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2116 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2117
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2118PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2119 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2120 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2121
aa41d2de
PH
2122PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2123
af561417
PH
2124PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2125
3cc66b45
PH
2126PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2127
194cc0e4
PH
2128PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2129 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2130 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2131 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2132
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PH
2133PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2134 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2135
4e88a19f
PH
2136PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2137 be meaningful with "accept".
2138
d7d7b289
SC
2139SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2140 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2141
2142SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2143 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2144 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2145
2146SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2147 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2148 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2149 there is data to show.
2150 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2151
2152SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2153 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2154 as well as the number of messages.
2155
2156SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2157 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2158 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2159
2160SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2161 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2162 have a flag are now skipped.
2163
2164SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2165 Added the -emptyok flag.
2166
2167SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2168 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2169
0ea2a468
JJ
2170JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2171 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2172 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2173
2174JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2175 match 4.64-PH/13
2176
2177JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2178 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2179
2180JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2181
2182JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2183 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2184
8a10f5a4
PH
2185PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2186
30e18802
PH
2187PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2188 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2189 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2190 contravention of the specifications.
2191
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2192PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2193 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2194 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2195
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PH
2196PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2197 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2198 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2199
87054a31
PH
2200PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2201
ea2c01d2
MH
2202MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2203 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2204 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2205 some point in the past.
2206
e4fa6968
PH
2207PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2208 transport during callout processing was broken.
2209
56f5d9bd
PH
2210PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2211 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2212
922e1c28
PH
2213PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2214 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2215
21eb6e72
PH
2216PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2217 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2218
a0540757
PH
2219PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2220
944e9e9c 2221
478be7b0
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2222Exim version 4.63
2223-----------------
2224
2225SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2226 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2227
2228SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2229 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2230 there is data to show.
2231 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2232
2233SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2234 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2235
2b965a65
TF
2236TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2237 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2238
45b91596
PH
2239TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2240 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2241
c59f5781
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2242TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2243 submissions from trusted users.
2244
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2245TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2246 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2247
6083aca0
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2248TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2249 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2250 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2251 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2252 there is now a framework to start from.
2253
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2254PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2255 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2256 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2257
4e167a8c
PH
2258PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2259
4608d683
PH
2260PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2261
b8dc3e4a
PH
2262PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2263
5418e93b
PH
2264PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2265 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2266 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2267
b4a9bda2
PH
2268PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2269 libradius.
2270
45b91596
PH
2271PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2272 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2273 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2274
5547e2c5
PH
2275PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2276 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2277 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2278 its arguments.
2279
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PH
2280PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2281 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2282 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2283 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2284 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2285
25257489
PH
2286PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2287 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2288
c816d124
PH
2289PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2290
a9ccd69a
PH
2291PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2292 operations in malware.c.
2293
75fa1910
PH
2294PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2295 signatures.
2296
a7d7aa58
PH
2297PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2298 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2299 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2300 all.
2301
42119b09
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2302PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2303 statements to "add_header".
2304
41609df5
PH
2305PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2306 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2307
a5bd321b
PH
2308PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2309 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2310 latter.
2311
e85a7ad5 2312PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2313 so that it is now:
2314
e85a7ad5
PH
2315 ${if or { \
2316 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2317 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2318 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2319 }{no}{yes}}
2320
e85a7ad5
PH
2321 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2322 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2323
d8fe1c03
PH
2324PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2325 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2326
16282d2b
PH
2327PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2328 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2329 any possible encoding problems.
2330
35d40a98
PH
2331PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2332 but not after initializing Perl.
2333
034d99ab
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2334PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2335 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2336 apparently, which is not desirable.
2337
6ec97b1b
PH
2338PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2339 queries.
2340
e22ca4ac
JJ
2341JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2342 --not options
2343
2344JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2345
33d73e3b
PH
2346PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2347 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2348 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2349 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2350
9ecb03f3
PH
2351PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2352 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2353 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2354
084efe8d
PH
2355PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2356 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2357 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2358 0.12.
2359
366fc9f0
PH
2360PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2361 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2362 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2363 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2364 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2365
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2367Exim version 4.62
2368-----------------
2369
2370TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2371 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2372
1cce3af8
PH
2373PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2374 patch).
2375
afb3eaaf
PH
2376PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2377 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2378 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2379 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2380 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2381 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2382 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2383 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2384 451 error is used.
2385
e173618b
PH
2386PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2387
dd16e114
PH
2388PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2389 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2390 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2391
f7fd3850
PH
2392PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2393 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2394 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2395 odd errors.
2396
d87df92c
PH
2397PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2398 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2399
7e9f683d
PH
2400PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2401 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2402 option (which defaults to 0600).
2403
bfad5236
PH
2404PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2405
01c490df
PH
2406PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2407 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2408 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2409 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2410 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2411 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2412 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2413
d6629cdc
PH
2414PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2415
1cce3af8 2416
214e2000
PH
2417Exim version 4.61
2418-----------------
2419
2420PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2421 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2422 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2423 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2424 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2425 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2426 addresses as local.
2427
f9daeae0
PH
2428PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2429 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2430
7e66e54d
PH
2431PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2432
c8ea1597
PH
2433PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2434 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2435 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2436 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2437 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2438 grumble.
2439
911f6fde
PH
2440PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2441 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2442
47ca6d6c
PH
2443PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2444 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2445 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2446 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2447 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2448
ed0e9820
PH
2449PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2450 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2451 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2452 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2453
eff37e47
PH
2454PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2455 be the same on different OS.
2456
1921d2ea
PH
2457PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2458 testing.
2459
b3f69ca8
JJ
2460JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2461 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2462
2463JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2464 in 4.61-PH/06
2465
424a1c63
PH
2466PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2467 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2468 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2469 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2470 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2471 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2472 bounce message.
2473
7a100415
PH
2474PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2475 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2476 when Exim was called.
2477
19b9dc85
PH
2478PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2479 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2480
309bd837
PH
2481PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2482 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2483 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2484 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2485
59e82a2a
PH
2486PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2487 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2488 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2489 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2490 changes:
2491
2492 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2493 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2494 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2495
2496 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2497 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2498 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2499
9edc04ce
PH
2500PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2501 feature).
2502
1349e1e5
PH
2503PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2504 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2505 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2506 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2507 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2508 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2509 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2510 values from the SRV records were lost.
2511
ea49d0e1
PH
2512PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2513 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2514 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2515
064a94c9
PH
2516PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2517 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2518 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2519
727071f8
PH
2520PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2521 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2522 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2523 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2524 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2525 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2526 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2527 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2528 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2529 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2530
f78eb7c6
PH
2531PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2532 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2533 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2534
21c28500
PH
2535PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2536 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2537
2538PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2539 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2540 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2541 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2542 is given.
2543
1688f43b
PH
2544PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2545 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2546 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2547
2548PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2549 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2550 PH/23 above applies.
2551
9675b384
PH
2552PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2553 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2554 (for which there is an explicit test).
2555
6a3f1455
PH
2556PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2557
dac79d3e
PH
2558PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2559 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2560 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2561 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2562 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2563
5977a0b3
PH
2564PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2565 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2566 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2567 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2568
c91535f3
PH
2569PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2570 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2571 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2572
0d46a8c8
PH
2573PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2574
278c6e6c
PH
2575PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2576
2cbb4081
PH
2577PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2578 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2579 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2580
3eef829e
PH
2581PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2582 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2583 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2584 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2585 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2586
1ab95fa6
PH
2587PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2588 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2589 the message gets confusing).
2590
230205fc
PH
2591PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2592 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2593 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2594 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2595
75e0e026
PH
2596PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2597 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2598 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2599 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2600 same order.
2601
2602PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2603 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2604 the different processes.
2605
145396a6
PH
2606PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2607
3cd34f13
PH
2608PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2609
11121d3d
JJ
2610JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2611 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2612
2613JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2614 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2615
2616JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2617 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2618 messages matching specified criteria.
2619
8def5aaf
PH
2620PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2621
929ba01c
PH
2622PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2623 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2624
2632889e
PH
2625PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2626 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2627 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2628 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2629 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2630 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2631 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2632 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2633 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2634 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2635
944a9c55
PH
2636PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2637 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2638 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2639
4a23603b
PH
2640PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2641
4730f942
PH
2642PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2643 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2644 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2645 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2646 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2647 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2648 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2649 the variable.
2650
30dba1e6
PH
2651PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2652 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2653
382afc6b
PH
2654PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2655
a86229cf
PH
2656PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2657
50c99ba6
PH
2658PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2659
d35e429d
PH
2660PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2661 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2662 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2663 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2664 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2665 size of the count of files.
2666
f90d018c
PH
2667PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2668
75def545
PH
2669PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2670 used in LMTP mode:
2671
2672 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2673 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2674 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2675 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2676
2677 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2678 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2679 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2680
2681PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2682 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2683 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2684 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2685 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2686
c46782ef
PH
2687PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2688 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2689
71fafd95
PH
2690PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2691 will now be deprecated.
2692
2c5db4fd
PH
2693PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2694
9cf6b11a
JJ
2695JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2696 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2697 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2698
2699JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2700 with very large, slow to parse queues
2701
2702JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2703
2704JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2705
898d150f
PH
2706PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2707 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2708 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2709 SMTP output lines.
2710
46218253
PH
2711PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2712 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2713 Sieve code now uses this.
2714
e97957bc
PH
2715PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2716 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2717
81e509d7
PH
2718PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2719 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2720
3d240ff7
PH
2721PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2722
b37c4101
PH
2723PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2724 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2725 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2726 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2727 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2728
79378e0f
PH
2729PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2730 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2731 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2732 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2733
e49c7bb4
PH
2734PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2735
d114ec46
PH
2736PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2737
f3d7df6c
PH
2738PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2739 is preferred over IPv4.
2740
715ab376
PH
2741PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2742 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2743 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2744 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2745 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2746 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2747 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2748
6b31b150
PH
2749PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2750 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2751 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2752
2753PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2754
d515a917
PH
2755PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2756 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2757 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2758 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2759 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2760 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2761 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2762 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2763 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2764 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2765 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2766
9b8fadde
PH
2767PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2768 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2769 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2770
214e2000 2771
5de37277
PH
2772Exim version 4.60
2773-----------------
2774
cc38ddbf
PH
2775PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2776
2777 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2778 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2779
2780 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2781 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2782 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2783
72fdd6ae
PH
2784PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2785
2786 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2787 not a single digit.
2788
2789 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2790 string.
2791
2792 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2793 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2794 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2795 silly things.
2796
2797 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2798 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2799
2800 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2801 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2802
cb741023
PH
2803PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2804 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2805 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2806
f174f16e
PH
2807PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2808 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2809
c25242d7
PH
2810PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2811 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2812
2813 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2814
2815 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2816 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2817 this:
2818
2819 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2820
82c19f95
PH
2821PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2822 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2823 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2824 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2825 identical. For example:
2826
2827 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2828
2829 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2830 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2831 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2832
d7ffbc12
PH
2833PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2834 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2835 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2836 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2837
9f526266
PH
2838PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2839 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2840 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2841 message.
2842
87fcc8b9
PH
2843PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2844
2845 o fixes some comments
2846 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2847 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2848 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2849 and documents the missing references header update
2850
2851 and most important:
2852
2853 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2854 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2855 result)
2856
456682f5
PH
2857PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2858 Electronic Mail") by including:
2859
2860 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2861
2862 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2863 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2864 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2865 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2866 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2867
2868 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2869
2870 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2871
2872 The auto-replied keyword:
2873
2874 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2875 message by an automatic process,
2876
2877 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2878
2879 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2880 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2881
2882 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2883 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2884 other messages.
2885
3e46c1aa
PH
2886PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2887 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2888
49826d12
PH
2889PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2890
eba0c039
PH
2891PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2892 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2893 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2894
a0d6ba8a
PH
2895PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2896 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2897 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2898
f0917727
PH
2899PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2900 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2901 and treats the condition as false.
2902
096fee00
PH
2903PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2904
024bd3c2
PH
2905PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2906 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2907 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2908 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2909 not changing the active code.
2910
2911 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2912 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2913
2914 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2915 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2916
df199fec
PH
2917PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2918 (Bugzilla #53).
2919
d27f1df3
PH
2920PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2921 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2922 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2923 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2924 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2925 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2926 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2927 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2928 the text comparison.
2929
96776534
PH
2930PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2931 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2932 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2933 The same fix has been applied.
2934
5de37277 2935
9a799bc0
PH
2936Exim version 4.54
2937-----------------
2938
2939PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2940 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2941 It now does.
2942
99a4b039
PH
2943PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2944 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2945
2946PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2947
4b233853
PH
2948PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2949 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2950 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2951 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2952 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2953
8857ccfd
PH
2954TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2955 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2956 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2957 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2958 or /domain=).
2959
433a2980
PH
2960PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2961 testing suite.
2962
3e46c1aa 2963
9a799bc0 2964
e3a311ba
TK
2965Exim version 4.53
2966-----------------
2967
2968TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2969 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2970
13b685f9
PH
2971PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2972
395ff96d
PH
2973PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2974
5b68f6e4
PH
2975PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2976 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2977 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2978
1ab52c69
PH
2979PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2980 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2981 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2982
b07e6aa3
PH
2983PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2984 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2985 operating systems.
2986
254e032f
PH
2987PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2988 ${stat: expansion item.
2989
3af76a81
PH
2990PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2991 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2992
2548ba04
PH
2993PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2994 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2995 file for comments.
2996
b6c6011d
PH
2997PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2998
cf39cf57
PH
2999PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3000 setting.
3001
f1513293
PH
3002PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3003 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3004
727549a4
PH
3005TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3006
af46795e
PH
3007PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3008 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3009 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3010 the end of the subprocess.
3011
d7b47fd0
PH
3012PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3013 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3014 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3015 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3016 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3017
ee744174
JJ
3018JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3019
b582ab87
PH
3020TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3021
41a13e0a
PH
3022PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3023 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3024
f625cc5a
PH
3025PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3026
3027PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3028
21f7af35
PH
3029PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3030 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3031 HP-UX compiler.
3032
31480e42
PH
3033PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3034
2d280592
PH
3035PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3036 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3037 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3038
7cd1141b
PH
3039PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3040 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3041
3042PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3043 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3044
750af86e
PH
3045PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3046 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3047
3048 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3049 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3050
3051 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3052 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3053 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3054 contributed by a Radius user.
3055
3056PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3057 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3058
4304270b
TK
3059TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3060 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3061
750af86e
PH
3062PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3063 available.
3064
64ffc24f
PH
3065PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3066 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3067 received.
3068
5dd9625b
PH
3069PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3070 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3071 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3072 header lines when this was not necessary.
3073
5591031b
PH
3074PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3075
ba18e66a
PH
3076PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3077 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3078 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3079 exists".
3080
9cec981f
PH
3081PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3082 -bV or -d is used.
3083
aa2b5c79
PH
3084PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3085 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3086 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3087 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3088
48a53b7f
PH
3089PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3090
1c59d63b
PH
3091PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3092
671012da
TK
3093TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3094
1509d3a8
PH
3095PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3096
3097PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3098 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3099 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3100 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3101 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3102 settings.
3103
3104PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3105
2fe1a124
PH
3106PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3107 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3108 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3109 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3110 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3111 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3112 which is clearly wrong.
3113
8800895a
PH
3114PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3115
ccfdb010
PH
3116PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3117 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3118 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3119 subsequently added.
3120
1130bfb0
PH
3121PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3122 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3123
ebcb507f
PH
3124PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3125
c35e155c
PH
3126PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3127 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3128
95d1f782
PH
3129PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3130 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3131
fd6de02e
PH
3132PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3133 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3134
58de37c5
PH
3135PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3136 recipients, not senders.
3137
261cf466
TF
3138TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3139 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3140
3ee512ff
PH
3141PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3142
e08c430f
PH
3143PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3144
bef5a11f
PH
3145PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3146 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3147 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3148 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3149
7546de58
TF
3150TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3151
e5d5a95f
TF
3152TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3153 clock is set back in time.
3154
2e88a017
TF
3155TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3156 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3157
a5f65aa4
TF
3158TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3159 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3160
e7726cbf
PH
3161PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3162 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3163 (see PH/47 above).
3164
a7fdad5b
TF
3165TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3166 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3167 header rewrites.
3168
6af56900
PH
3169PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3170 type ("H").
3171
0925ede6
PH
3172PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3173
66afa403
TF
3174TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3175 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3176 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3177
0154e85a
TF
3178TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3179 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3180 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3181 helo verification defer as a failure.
3182
16f12c76
PH
3183PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3184 actual error message.
3185
bbe902f0 3186
e5a9dba6
PH
3187Exim version 4.52
3188-----------------
3189
3190TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3191
22c3b60b
PH
3192PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3193 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3194 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3195 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3196
06a9b4b5
PH
3197TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3198
c1ac6996
PH
3199PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3200 can still be requested.
3201
9c7a242c
PH
3202PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3203 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3204 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3205 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3206
87ba3f5f
PH
3207TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3208 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3209 circumstances, but probably never did.
3210
3211PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3212 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3213 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3214 in the header line.
3215
29aba418
TF
3216TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3217
fe0dab11
TF
3218TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3219 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3220
11d337a4
TK
3221TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3222
3223TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3224
415c8f3b
PH
3225PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3226 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3227 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3228 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3229 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3230 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3231
958541e9
PH
3232PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3233 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3234 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3235 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3236 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3237 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3238
c206415f
TK
3239TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3240 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3241
2a4be8f9
PH
3242PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3243 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3244
1cba11c5
SC
3245SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3246 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3247
3248SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3249
3250SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3251
3252SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3253
3254SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3255
3256SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3257
3258SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3259
1005d00e
TK
3260TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3261
3262TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3263 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3264 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3265
3266TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3267 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3268 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3269 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3270
9b4768fa
PH
3271PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3272 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3273 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3274
3275PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3276 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3277 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3278 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3279
0d7eb84a
PH
3280PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3281 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3282 to be made).
3283
3284PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3285 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3286 should work with maildirs and everything.
3287
40727bee
TK
3288TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3289 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3290
554d2369
TF
3291TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3292 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3293
1f922db1
PH
3294PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3295 function for BDB 4.3.
3296
ef213c3b
PH
3297PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3298
8ac170f3
PH
3299PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3300 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3301 involved.
3302
b1c749bb
PH
3303PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3304 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3305 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3306 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3307 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3308 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3309
4aac9b49
PH
3310PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3311 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3312 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3313 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3314 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3315 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3316 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3317 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3318
294520c8
TK
3319TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3320 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3321 details.
3322
5bd022fe
PH
3323PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3324 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3325
90e9ce59
PH
3326PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3327 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3328 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3329 test. It is now used for both.
3330
5ea81592
PH
3331PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3332 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3333 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3334 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3335 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3336 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3337
c6c2dc1d
PH
3338PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3339 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3340 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3341 string_vformat().
3342
fffffe4c
PH
3343PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3344 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3345 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3346
9a26b6b2
PH
3347PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3348 experimental DomainKeys support:
3349
3350 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3351 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3352 the control was given.
3353
3354 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3355
4aee0225
PH
3356PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3357
32d668a5
PH
3358PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3359
8187c3f3
PH
3360PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3361 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3362 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3363 db.h files).
3364
ff790e47 3365PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3366 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3367 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3368 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3369 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3370 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3371 course.
ff790e47 3372
5417f6d1
PH
3373PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3374 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3375 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3376 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3377 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3378 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3379
59cf8544
PH
3380PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3381 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3382 do -d+all out of habit.
3383
e7ad8a65
PH
3384PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3385 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3386 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3387
ade42478
PH
3388PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3389 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3390 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3391 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3392 record types that Exim uses.
3393
182ad5cf
PH
3394PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3395 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3396 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3397 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3398 non-existent file that was broken.
3399
b0d9fc80
TK
3400TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3401 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3402
3403TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3404 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3405 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3406
3407TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3408
47c7a64a
PH
3409PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3410 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3411 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3412 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3413 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3414 same time.
3415
a388bce4
SC
3416SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3417 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3418 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3419 at a slight CPU cost.
3420
3421SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3422 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3423
3424SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3425 by Marc Sherman.
3426
0793e4ed
SC
3427SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3428
c58b88df
PH
3429PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3430 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3431
e7ad8a65 3432
7982096b
PH
3433Exim version 4.51
3434-----------------
3435
1a46a8c5
PH
3436TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3437 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3438
2f079f46 3439TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3440
3441TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3442
3443PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3444 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3445
3446PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3447 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3448 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3449 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3450 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3451 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3452 file.
3453
3454PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3455 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3456 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3457 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3458 these two options.
3459
3460PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3461 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3462 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3463 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3464 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3465 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3466 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3467 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3468
3469PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3470 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3471
3472PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3473 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3474 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3475 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3476 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3477 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3478
3479PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3480 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3481 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3482 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3483
3484PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3485 Finch).
3486
3487PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3488 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3489
49c2d5ea
PH
3490PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3491 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3492 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3493 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3494 message.
49c2d5ea 3495
bf759a8b
PH
3496PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3497
83364d30
PH
3498PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3499 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3500
7999bbd7
PH
3501PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3502 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3503 to what was transported.)
3504
7dbf77c9
PH
3505TF/01 Added $received_time.
3506
74e0617f
PH
3507PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3508 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3509 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3510 spamd_address settings.
3511
2f079f46
PH
3512PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3513 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3514 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3515 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3516 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3517
8c841523
PH
3518PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3519
7766a4f0
PH
3520PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3521 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3522 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3523 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3524 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3525
8b417f2c
PH
3526PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3527 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3528
901f42cb
PH
3529PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3530 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3531 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3532 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3533 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3534 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3535 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3536 for failure.
3537
f9b9210e
PH
3538PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3539 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3540 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3541 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3542 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3543 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3544 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3545 "input=".
3546
54cdb463
PH
3547PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3548
cf00dad6
PH
3549PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3550 driver and ACL definitions.
3551
acb1b346
PH
3552PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3553 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3554
c5ddb310
PH
3555PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3556 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3557 understands it better than I do:
3558
3559 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3560 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3561
3562 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3563 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3564 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3565 => three warnings about OTP not working
3566 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3567
3568 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3569 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3570 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3571 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3572 for each call.)
3573 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3574 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3575
3576 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3577 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3578 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3579
31619da6
PH
3580PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3581 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3582 specified.
3583
bebaf0fc
PH
3584PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3585 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3586 "Linux".
3587
475fe28a
PH
3588PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3589 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3590 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3591
3592 warn !verify = sender
3593 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3594
3595 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3596 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3597
7e8bec7a
PH
3598PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3599
3600 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3601 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3602
3603 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3604 nomenclature these days.)
3605
e4a89c47
PH
3606PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3607 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3608
5ca2a9a1
PH
3609PH/30 In these circumstances:
3610 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3611 . First host does not offer TLS;
3612 . First host accepts first address;
3613 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3614 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3615 . Second host accepts second address.
3616 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3617 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3618 address.
7e8bec7a 3619
c688b954
PH
3620PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3621 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3622 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3623 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3624 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3625
fed77020
PH
3626PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3627 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3628
7fe1560f
PH
3629PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3630 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3631
ebb6e6d5
PH
3632PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3633 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3634 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3635
9c4e8f60
PH
3636PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3637 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3638 overlooked.
3639
3640PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3641
d7174846
PH
3642PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3643 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3644 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3645 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3646 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3647 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3648 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3649
3650 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3651 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3652 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3653 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3654 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3655
3656 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3657 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3658 routed further.
3659
cfe75fc3
PH
3660PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3661 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3662 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3663 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3664 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3665 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3666
be22d70e
PH
3667PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3668
0612b098
PH
3669PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3670 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3671 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3672 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3673 printable escape sequences.
3674
2e0c1448
PH
3675PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3676 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3677 body only.
3678
447d236c
PH
3679PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3680 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3681 are as follows:
3682
3683 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3684 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3685 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3686 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3687 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3688
3689 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3690 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3691 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3692
d20976dc
PH
3693PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3694
f656d135
PH
3695PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3696 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3697 play with."
3698
2e2a30b4
PH
3699PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3700 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3701 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3702 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3703 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3704 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3705 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3706 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3707 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3708 the log output.
3709
9176e9f0
PH
3710PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3711 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3712 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3713 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3714 "make".
3715
7982096b 3716
bbe902f0
PH
3717A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3718----------------------------------------
3719
3720Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3721changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3722needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3723in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3724that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3725release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3726from 4.43.
3727
3728I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
37294.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3730those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3731historical information.
3732
3733
f7b63901 3734Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3735-----------------
3736
5fe762f6
PH
3737 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3738
139059f6 3739 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3740 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3741
7086e875
PH
3742 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3743 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3744 place.
3745
35af9f61
PH
3746 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3747 filter fails to execute.
3748
b668c215
PH
3749 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3750 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3751 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3752 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3753 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3754
a494b1e1
PH
3755 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3756
3757 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3758 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3759 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3760 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3761
c5fcb476
PH
3762 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3763 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3764 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3765 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3766 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3767
69358f02
PH
3768 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3769
5be20824
PH
377010. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3771
eb2c0248
PH
377211. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3773 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3774 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3775 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3776
2a3eea10
PH
377712. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3778 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3779 sender verification.
3780
378113. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3782 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3783
23c7ff99
PH
378414. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3785
4deaf07d
PH
378615. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3787 connection timeout.
3788
926e1192
PH
378916. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3790 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3791
650edc6f
PH
379217. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3793 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3794
2c7db3f5
PH
379518. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3796 information about exactly what failed.
3797
3d235903
PH
379819. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3799
7c7ad977
PH
380020. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3801 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3802 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3803
981756db
PH
380421. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3805 It is now set to "smtps".
3806
d4eb88df
PH
380722. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3808 ignore_target_hosts.
3809
381023. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3811 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3812 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3813 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3814 "[x.x.x.x]".
3815
7d468ab8
PH
381624. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3817 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3818 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3819
382025. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3821 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3822 wake it up if nothing else does.
3823
62c0818f
PH
382426. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3825 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3826 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3827 end up negative.
3828
26034054
PH
382927. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3830 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3831
af66f652
PH
383228. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3833
90af77f4
PH
383429. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3835 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3836 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3837 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3838 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3839 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3840 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3841 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3842
d8ef3577
PH
384330. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3844 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3845 than one IP address.
3846
5cb8cbc6
PH
384731. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3848 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3849 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3850 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3851
14702f5b
PH
385232. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3853 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3854 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3855 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3856 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3857 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3858
063b1e99
PH
385933. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3860 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3861 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3862 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3863
652e1b65
PH
386434. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3865 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3866 respected.
3867
6f0c9a4f
PH
386835. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3869 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3870 $sender_host_address.
3871
33397d19
PH
387236. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3873 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3874 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3875 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3876 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3877 very small.
3878
7bb56e1f
PH
387937. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3880
3881 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3882 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3883
ea3bc19b
PH
3884 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3885 just the host names, not the priorities.
3886
3887 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3888 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3889 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3890
ea3bc19b 3891 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3892 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3893
0bcb2a0e
PH
389438. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3895 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3896 domain.
3897
2ac0e484
PH
389839. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3899
4e1fde53
PH
390040. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3901 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3902
de365ded
PH
390341. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3904 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3905 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3906
f05da2e8
PH
390742. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3908
d6453af2
PH
390943. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3910
f7b63901
PH
391144. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3912
391345. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3914 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3915 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3916 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3917 because the tests only now provoked it.
3918
a444213a
PH
391946. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3920 (this can affect the format of dates).
3921
0ec020ea
PH
392247. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3923 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3924 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3925 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3926
b1206957
PH
392748. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3928
392949. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3930 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3931 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3932 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3933
26dd5a95
PH
393450. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3935 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3936 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3937
343b2385
PH
393851. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3939 autoreply.
3940
1c5466b9
PH
394152. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3942 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3943 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3944 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3945 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3946 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3947 is going on).
3948
55ee9ee3
PH
394953. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3950 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3951 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3952 the line.
3953
d38f8232
PH
395454. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3955 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3956 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3957
3958 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3959 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3960 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3961 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3962 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3963 so I produce this patch..."
3964
3295e65b
PH
3965 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3966 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3967 is not defined.
3968
7102e136
PH
396955. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3970 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3971 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3972 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3973 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3974
3ca0ba97
PH
397556. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3976
c2bcbe20
PH
397757. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3978 long debug lines gets shown.
3979
18ce445d
PH
398058. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3981 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3982
1f5b4c3d
PH
398359. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3984
3985 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3986 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3987 of $primary_hostname.
3988
b975ba52
PH
398960. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3990 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3991 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3992 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3993 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3994 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3995 by change 4.50/55 above.
3996
3997 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3998 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3999 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4000 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4001 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4002 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4003 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4004
400561. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4006 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4007 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4008 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4009
17ffcae7
PH
401062. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4011 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4012
d95f9fdb
PH
401363. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4014 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4015 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4016 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4017 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4018
86b8287f
PH
401964. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4020 This has been fixed.
4021
60dc5e56
PH
402265. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4023 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4024 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4025 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4026 the caching.)
4027
533244af
PH
402866. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4029
a5a28604
PH
403067. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4031 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4032 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4033 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4034
7e634d24
PH
403568. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4036 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4037
3e11c26b
PH
403869. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4039 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4040 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4041
6729cf78
PH
404270. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4043 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4044 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4045 message there.
4046
00f00ca5
PH
404771. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4048 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4049 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4050
c9bdd01c
PH
405172. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4052 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4053 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4054 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4055
d43194df
PH
405673. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4057 during host lookups.
4058
fe5b5d0b
PH
405974. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4060 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4061
4062 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4063
76a2d7ba
PH
406475. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4065 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4066 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4067 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4068 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4069 background.
4070
407176. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4072 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4073
04f7d5b9
PH
407477. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4075 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4076 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4077
bc60667e
PH
407878. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4079
bb6e88ff
PH
408079. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4081 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4082 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4083 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4084 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4085 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4086 process earlier.
4087
1e70f85b
PH
408880. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4089 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4090 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4091 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4092 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4093
409481. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4095 tables).
4096
4e01f9d6
PH
409782. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4098
1ee1cef2
PH
409983. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4100 "vacation" handling.
4101
6e2b4ccc
PH
410284. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4103 OS variants using glibc.
4104
8e669ac1
PH
410585. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4106
495ae4b0 4107
bbe902f0
PH
4108----------------------------------------------------
4109See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4110----------------------------------------------------
4111
4112
4113Exim version 4.44
4114-----------------
4115
4116 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4117 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4118 transport
4119
4120 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4121 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4122 place.
4123
4124 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4125 filter fails to execute.
4126
4127 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4128 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4129 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4130 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4131 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4132
4133 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4134 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4135 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4136 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4137
4138 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4139 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4140 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4141 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4142 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4143
4144 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4145
4146 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4147 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4148 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4149 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4150
4151 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4152 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4153 sender verification.
4154
415510. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4156 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4157
415811. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4159 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4160
416112. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4162 ignore_target_hosts.
4163
416413. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4165 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4166 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4167 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4168 "[x.x.x.x]".
4169
417014. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4171 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4172 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4173
417415. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4175 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4176 wake it up if nothing else does.
4177
417816. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4179 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4180 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4181 end up negative.
4182
418317. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4184 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4185
ea3a6f44 418618. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4187
418819. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4189 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4190 empty pattern.
4191
419220. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4193 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4194 one IP address.
4195
ea3a6f44
NM
419621. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4197 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4198 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4199 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4200 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4201 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4202
ea3a6f44
NM
420322. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4204 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4205 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4206
420723. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4208 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4209 $sender_host_address.
4210
421124. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4212
ea3a6f44
NM
421325. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4214 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4215 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4216
421726. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4218 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4219
ea3a6f44
NM
422027. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4221 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4222
ea3a6f44
NM
422328. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4224 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4225 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4226 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4227
422829. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4229 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4230 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4231
ea3a6f44
NM
423230. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4233 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4234 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4235 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4236
ea3a6f44
NM
423731. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4238 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4239 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4240
ea3a6f44
NM
424131. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4242 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4243
ea3a6f44
NM
424432. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4245 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4246 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4247 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4248 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4249 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4250 is going on).
bbe902f0 4251
ea3a6f44
NM
425233. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4253 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4254 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4255 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4256 CAN-2005-0021
4257
ea3a6f44
NM
425834. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4259 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4260 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4261 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4262 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4263 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4264 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4265
4266 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4267 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4268 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4269 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4270 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4271 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4272 CAN-2005-0021
4273
ea3a6f44
NM
427435. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4275 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4276 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4277 CAN-2005-0022
4278
ea3a6f44
NM
427936. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4280 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4281 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4282 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4283 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4284
ea3a6f44
NM
428537. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4286 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4287 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4288 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4289 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4290
ea3a6f44
NM
429138. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4292 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4293 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4294 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4295 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4296
4297
495ae4b0
PH
4298Exim version 4.43
4299-----------------
4300
4301 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4302 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4303 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4304 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4305 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4306 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4307 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4308
4309 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4310 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4311 the delivery.
4312
4313 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4314
4315 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4316
4317 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4318 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4319 to local_scan().
4320
4321 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4322 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4323 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4324 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4325 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4326
4327 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4328 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4329
4330 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4331
4332 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4333
433410. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4335 header_sender only.
4336
433711. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4338 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4339
434012. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4341 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4342 affecting debugging statements).
4343
434413. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4345
434614. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4347 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4348 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4349 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4350 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4351 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4352 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4353 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4354 after the received time, and all would be well.
4355
435615. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4357 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4358 condition in an expansion string.
4359
436016. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4361
436217. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4363 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4364 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4365 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4366 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4367 job under whatever limits there are.
4368
436918. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4370
437119. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4372 space).
4373
437420. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4375 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4376 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4377 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4378 return path is set.
4379
438021. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4381 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4382 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4383 binary data in such strings.
4384
438522. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4386
438723. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4388 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4389 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4390 failure, which is pointless.
4391
439224. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4393
439425. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4395
439626. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4397 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4398 Sender: header lines.
4399
440027. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4401 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4402 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4403
440428. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4405 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4406 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4407 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4408 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4409 happens.
4410
441129. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4412 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4413 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4414 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4415 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4416
441730. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4418 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4419 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4420 1024.
4421
442231. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4423 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4424
442532. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4426 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4427
442833. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4429
443032. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4431
443233. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4433
443434. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4435 syntax error.
4436
443735. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4438
443936. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4440
444137. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4442 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4443 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4444 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4445
444638. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4447 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4448
4449
4450Exim version 4.42
4451-----------------
4452
4453 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4454 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4455 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4456 it was not quoted.
4457 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4458 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4459 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4460 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4461 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4462 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4463
4464 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4465 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4466 verification failure".
4467
4468 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4469 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4470 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4471 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4472
4473 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4474 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4475 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4476 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4477 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4478 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4479 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4480 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4481 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4482 treated as a timeout.
4483
4484 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4485 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4486 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4487 not set for Exim filters).
4488
4489 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4490 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4491 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4492
4493 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4494
4495 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4496 try to make them clearer.
4497
4498 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4499 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4500
4501 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4502
4503 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4504
450510. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4506 only the Cygwin environment.
4507
450811. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4509 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4510 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4511 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4512 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4513
451412. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4515 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4516 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4517 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4518 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4519 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4520 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4521
452213. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4523 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4524
452514. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4526
4527 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4528 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4529 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4530
4531 To: susanne@some.where
4532
4533 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4534 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4535 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4536 of addresses in From: header lines).
4537
4538 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4539 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4540 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4541
4542 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4543 treated as non-personal.
4544
4545 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4546 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4547
454815. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4549
455016. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4551
455217. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4553 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4554 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4555
455618. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4557 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4558
455919. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4560 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4561 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4562 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4563 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4564 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4565
456620. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4567 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4568 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4569 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4570 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4571 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4572 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4573 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4574
4575 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4576
457721. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4578 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4579
458022. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4581 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4582 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4583
458423. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4585 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4586
458724. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4588 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4589 rather than long int.
4590
459125. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4592
459326. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4594
4595
4596Exim version 4.41
4597-----------------
4598
4599 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4600 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4601 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4602 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4603 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4604 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4605
4606
4607Exim version 4.40
4608-----------------
4609
4610 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4611 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4612
4613 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4614 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4615 socklen_t is defined.
4616
4617 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4618 always exist.
4619
4620 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4621 configured.
4622
4623 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4624 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4625 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4626 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4627 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4628
4629 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4630 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4631 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4632 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4633
4634 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4635 of flapping under certain conditions.
4636
4637 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4638 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4639 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4640
4641 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4642
464310. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4644
464511. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4646 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4647 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4648 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4649
465012. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4651 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4652 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4653 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4654 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4655 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4656 preserved with the message after it was received.
4657
465813. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4659 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4660 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4661 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4662 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4663 test suite worked just fine.
4664
466514. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4666 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4667 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4668
466915. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4670 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4671 string.
4672
467316. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4674 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4675 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4676 does not fully solve it.
4677
467817. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4679 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4680 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4681 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4682 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4683
468418. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4685 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4686 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4687
468819. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4689 string, for example:
4690
4691 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4692
4693 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4694 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4695 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4696 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4697 the routers could not see them.
4698
469920. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4700 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4701
470221. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4703 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4704 output).
4705
470622. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4707 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4708 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4709 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4710 that needed quoting.
4711
471223. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4713 was not being matched caselessly.
4714
471524. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4716 backslashes.
4717
471825. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4719 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4720 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4721 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4722 when use_sender is false.
4723
472426. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4725
472627. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4727
472828. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4729
473029. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4731 the configuration file.
4732
473330. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4734 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4735
473631. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4737
473832. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4739 bytes in the message body.
4740
474133. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4742 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4743 delivery.
4744
474534. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4746
474735. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4748
474936. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4750 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4751 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4752 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4753 another IP address.
4754
4755
4756Exim version 4.34
4757-----------------
4758
4759 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4760 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4761
4762 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4763 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4764 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4765 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4766 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4767
4768 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4769 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4770
4771 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4772 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4773 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4774
4775 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4776 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4777 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4778
4779 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4780 for routers.
4781
4782 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4783 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4784 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4785 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4786 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4787 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4788 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4789
4790
4791Exim version 4.33
4792-----------------
4793
4794 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4795 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4796 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4797 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4798 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4799 default (and expected) setting.
4800
4801 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4802 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4803 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4804 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4805
4806 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4807 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4808
4809 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4810 in domain lists.
4811
4812 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4813 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4814 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4815 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4816 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4817 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4818
4819 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4820 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4821 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4822
4823 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4824 part (NOT match_host).
4825
4826 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4827
4828 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4829 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4830 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4831 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4832 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4833 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4834 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4835 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4836 the same named file.
4837
483810. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4839 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4840 when Exim is built.
4841
484211. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4843 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4844 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4845 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4846 a host name.
4847
484812. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4849 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4850 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4851
485213. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4853
485414. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4855
485615. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4857
485816. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4859 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4860
486117. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4862 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4863 before starting the TLS session.
4864
486518. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4866
486719. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4868 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4869
487020. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4871 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4872 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4873 colon in the middle).
4874
4875
4876Exim version 4.32
4877-----------------
4878
4879 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4880 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4881 multiple configurations are in use.
4882
4883 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4884 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4885 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4886 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4887 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4888 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4889
4890 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4891 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4892
4893 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4894 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4895 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4896
4897 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4898 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4899 occurs.
4900
4901 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4902 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4903
4904 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4905
4906 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4907 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4908
4909 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4910
4911 -prval:sval
4912
4913 is equivalent to
4914
4915 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4916
4917 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4918 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4919 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4920 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4921 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4922
492310. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4924 Exim's behaviour:
4925
4926 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4927 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4928 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4929 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4930 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4931 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4932
4933 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4934 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4935 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4936 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4937 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4938 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4939 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4940 string.
4941
4942 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4943 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4944 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4945 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4946 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4947
494811. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4949
495012. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4951 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4952 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4953
495413. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4955
495614. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4957 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4958 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4959 information.
4960
496115. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4962 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4963
496416. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4965 Three changes have been made:
4966
4967 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4968 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4969 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4970 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4971 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4972
4973 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4974 been restored.
4975
4976 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4977 the modified behaviour.
4978
4979
4980Exim version 4.31
4981-----------------
4982
4983 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4984 Larry Rosenman.
4985
4986 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4987 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4988
4989 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4990 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4991 try to track down a specific problem.
4992
4993 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4994 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4995 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4996
4997 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4998 warning.
4999
5000 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5001 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5002 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5003 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5004 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5005 some earlier ones do not.
5006
5007 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5008
5009 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5010 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5011 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5012 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5013 address literals are enabled, of course).
5014
5015 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5016
501710. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5018 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5019 by a command such as
5020
5021 exim -f "" ...
5022
5023 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5024
502511. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5026
502712. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5028 remained set. It is now erased.
5029
503013. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5031 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5032
503314. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5034 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5035 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5036 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5037 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5038 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5039 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5040 appropriate error code.
5041
504215. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5043 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5044 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5045 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5046 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5047 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5048
504916. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5050 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5051 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5052
505317. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5054 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5055 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5056 terminate the header.
5057
505818. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5059 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5060 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5061
506219. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5063 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5064 (4.30/29). In particular:
5065
5066 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5067 imposed.
5068
5069 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5070 to write a maildirsize file.
5071
5072 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5073 the transport, the new value overrides.
5074
5075 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5076 count.
5077
507820. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5079 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5080 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5081 space or a tab.
5082
508321. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5084 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5085 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5086 the fallback hosts.
5087
508822. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5089 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5090 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5091
509223. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5093 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5094 using a union.
5095
509624. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5097 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5098 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5099
510025. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5101
510226. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5103
510427. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5105
510628. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5107 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5108 become corrupted.
5109
511029. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5111 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5112 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5113 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5114 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5115 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5116 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5117 too great.
5118
511930. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5120 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5121 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5122 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5123 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5124 incorrectly.
5125
512631. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5127 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5128 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5129 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5130 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5131 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5132 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5133 cached value only when the same options are set.
5134
513532. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5136
513733. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5138 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5139 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5140 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5141 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5142
514334: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5144 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5145 it is clearly obsolete.
5146
514735. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5148 transport.
5149
515036. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5151 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5152 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5153 times.
5154
515537. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5156 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5157 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5158 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5159 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5160
516138. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5162 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5163 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5164 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5165
516639. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5167
5168 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5169
5170 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5171 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5172 2^31.
5173
517440. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5175 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5176 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5177 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5178 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5179 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5180 $localpart_data.
5181
518241. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5183 with the -f command-line option.
5184
518542. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5186 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5187 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5188 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5189 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5190 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5191
519243. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5193 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5194 line.
5195
519644. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5197 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5198 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5199 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5200 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5201 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5202 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5203 buffer is too small.
5204
520545. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5206 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5207
520846. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5209 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5210 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5211 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5212 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5213 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5214 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5215 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5216 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5217
521847. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5219 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5220 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5221
522248. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5223 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5224 ACL").
5225
522649. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5227 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5228 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5229 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5230 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5231
523250. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5233 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5234 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5235 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5236 is set.
5237
523851. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5239
524052. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5241
524253. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5243 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5244
524554. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5246 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5247 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5248
524955. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5250 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5251 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5252 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5253 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5254
525556. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5256 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5257 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5258 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5259 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5260 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5261 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5262
526357. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5264 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5265 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5266 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5267 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5268 the test of how many are available.
5269
527058. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5271 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5272 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5273 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5274 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5275 new message is started.
5276
527759. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5278 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5279
528060. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5281 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5282
528361. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5284 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5285 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5286 is no long logged.
5287
528862. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5289 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5290 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5291 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5292 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5293 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5294 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5295
529663. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5297 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5298 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5299 interpreted as octal.
5300
530164. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5302 setting.
5303
530465. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5305 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5306 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5307 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5308 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5309 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5310
531166. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5312 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5313 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5314 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5315
5316 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5317 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5318 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5319 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5320
5321 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5322 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5323 is a bug fix.
5324
5325 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5326 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5327
532867. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5329
533068. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5331 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5332 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5333 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5334
533569. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5336 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5337 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5338 supplied", which is not helpful.
5339
534070. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5341 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5342 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5343
534471. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5345 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5346 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5347 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5348 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5349 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5350 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5351 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5352
535372. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5354 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5355 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5356 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5357 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5358
535973. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5360 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5361 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5362 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5363 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5364 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5365
536674. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5367 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5368 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5369
537075. Added write_rejectlog option.
5371
537276. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5373 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5374 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5375 variables.
5376
537777. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5378
537978. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5380 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5381 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5382 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5383 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5384 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5385 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5386 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5387
538879. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5389 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5390 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5391 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5392 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5393
539480. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5395 Haardt.
5396
539781. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5398 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5399 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5400 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5401 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5402 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5403 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5404 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5405 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5406
5407
5408Exim version 4.30
5409-----------------
5410
5411 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5412 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5413 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5414
5415 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5416 fixed.
5417
5418 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5419 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5420 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5421
5422 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5423 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5424 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5425 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5426 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5427 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5428
5429 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5430 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5431 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5432 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5433 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5434 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5435 the Exim test suite.
5436
5437 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5438 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5439 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5440 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5441
5442 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5443 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5444 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5445 specify it in this variable.
5446
5447 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5448 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5449 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5450 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5451
5452 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5453 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5454 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5455 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5456
5457 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5458 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5459 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5460 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5461 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5462
5463 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5464
546510. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5466 they are logged.
5467
546811. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5469 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5470 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5471 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5472 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5473
547412. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5475 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5476
547713. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5478 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5479 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5480 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5481 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5482
548314. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5484 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5485
548615. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5487 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5488 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5489
549016. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5491 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5492
549317. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5494 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5495
549618. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5497 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5498 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5499
550019. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5501 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5502
550320. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5504 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5505 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5506 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5507
550821. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5509
551022. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5511 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5512 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5513 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5514
551523. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5516
551724. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5518 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5519
552025. Added .include_if_exists.
5521
552226. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5523 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5524 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5525 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5526 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5527 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5528
552927. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5530
553128. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5532 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5533 this.
5534
553529. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5536
553730. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5538 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5539
5540 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5541 550 Sender verify failed
5542
5543 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5544 the final line of the response.
5545
554631. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5547 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5548 all other user lookups.
5549
555032. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5551 delivery time.
5552
555333. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5554 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5555 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5556 result into an int without checking.
5557
555834. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5559 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5560 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5561
556235. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5563 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5564 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5565 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5566
556736. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5568 correctly.
5569
557037. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5571 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5572
557338. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5574 to the empty sender.
5575
557639. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5577 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5578 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5579 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5580 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5581 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5582 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5583 panic log.
5584
558540. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5586 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5587 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5588 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5589 used.
5590
559141. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5592 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5593
559442. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5595 timestamps.
5596
559743. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5598 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5599
560044. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5601
560245. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5603 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5604 logs.
5605
560646. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5607 as soon as it is encountered.
5608
560947. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5610
561148. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5612 rewritten to "<>".
5613
561449. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5615 recognizes a tab character.
5616
561750. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5618 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5619 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5620 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5621
562251. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5623
562452. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5625 crash.
5626
562753. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5628
562954. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5630
563155. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5632 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5633 2822.
5634
563556. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5636 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5637 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5638 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5639 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5640
564157. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5642 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5643
564458. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5645 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5646 list (.included file names were always shown).
5647
564859. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5649 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5650 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5651 root at that time.
5652
565360. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5654 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5655
565661. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5657
565862. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5659
566063. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5661
566264. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5663 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5664 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5665 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5666 failures to open the logs.
5667
566865. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5669 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5670 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5671 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5672 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5673 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5674 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5675
5676
5677Exim version 4.24
5678-----------------
5679
5680 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5681 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5682 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5683 change 4.23/1.
5684
5685 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5686 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5687 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5688
5689 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5690 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5691 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5692
5693 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5694 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5695 causing some misleading effects.
5696
5697 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5698 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5699 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5700
5701 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5702 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5703 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5704 queue-runner function directly.
5705
5706
5707Exim version 4.23
5708-----------------
5709
5710 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5711 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5712
5713 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5714 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5715 was always written to the default place.
5716
5717 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5718 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5719 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5720
5721 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5722
5723 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5724
5725 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5726 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5727 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5728
5729 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5730 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5731 must start.
5732
5733 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5734 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5735 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5736
5737 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5738 command line option is disabled.
5739
5740 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5741 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5742
5743 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5744
5745 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5746
5747 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5748 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5749
575010. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5751
575211. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5753 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5754 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5755 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5756 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5757 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5758
575912. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5760 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5761 timeout.
5762
576313. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5764 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5765
576614. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5767 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5768
576915. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5770 received was valid base64.
5771
577216. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5773 name of the variable that was being set.
5774
577517. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5776
577718. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5778 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5779 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5780 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5781 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5782 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5783
578419. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5785
578620. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5787 nor realm was specified.
5788
578921. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5790 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5791 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5792 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5793
579422. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5795 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5796 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5797
579823. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5799 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5800 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5801
580224. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5803 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5804 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5805 some systems use these upper case variants.
5806
580725. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5808 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5809 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5810 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5811
581226. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5813
581427. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5815 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5816
581728. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5818 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5819 expansion variable.
5820
582129. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5822
582330. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5824 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5825 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5826 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5827
582831. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5829 using it.
5830
583132. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5832 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5833 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5834
583533. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5836 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5837
583834. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5839 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5840 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5841 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5842
584335. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5844 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5845 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5846
584736. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5848
584937. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5850 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5851 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5852 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5853 aborted.
5854
585538. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5856 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5857 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5858
585939. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5860
586140. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5862 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5863
586441. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5865 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5866
586742. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5868 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5869 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5870 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5871 when emails are that large.
5872
5873
5874
5875Exim version 4.22
5876-----------------
5877
5878 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5879 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5880
5881 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5882 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5883 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5884
5885 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5886 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5887 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5888
5889 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5890 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5891 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5892 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5893 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5894
5895 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5896 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5897 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5898 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5899 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5900 ever.
5901
5902 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5903 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5904 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5905 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5906 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5907 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5908 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5909 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5910 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5911 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5912 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5913 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5914 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5915 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5916
5917 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5918 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5919 parameterised it.
5920
5921 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5922 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5923 error should be diagnosed.
5924
5925 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5926 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5927 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5928 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5929 appeared instead of "NULL".
5930
593110. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5932 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5933 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5934 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5935 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5936 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5937 proceeds).
5938
5939 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5940 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5941 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5942
5943
5944Exim version 4.21
5945-----------------
5946
5947 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5948 or receiver verification errors.
5949
5950 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5951 name.
5952
5953 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5954 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5955 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5956 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5957
5958 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5959 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5960 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5961 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5962 shouldn't happen again.
5963
5964 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5965 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5966 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5967
5968 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5969 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5970
5971 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5972
5973 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5974 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5975
5976 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5977 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5978 RFC.
5979
598010. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5981 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5982 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5983
598411. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5985 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5986 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5987 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5988
598912. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5990 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5991 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5992 to define what should happen).
5993
599413. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5995 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5996 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5997
599814. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5999
600015. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6001
600216. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6003 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6004
600517. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
6006 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6007 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6008 structure in all cases.
6009
6010 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6011 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6012 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6013 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6014
601518. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6016 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6017 domain name.
6018
601919. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6020 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6021
602220. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6023 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6024
602521. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6026 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6027 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6028
602922. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6030 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6031 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6032
603323. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6034 the book and for uniformity.
6035
603624. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6037
603825. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
6039 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
6040 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6041 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6042 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6043 non-existent command as the problem.
6044
604526. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6046 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6047 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6048
604927. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6050
605128. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6052 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6053 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6054
605529. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6056 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6057 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6058 timestamps using strftime().
6059
606030. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6061 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6062
606332. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6064 transport-time rewrites.
6065
606633. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6067 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6068 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6069 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6070
607134. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6072 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6073
607435. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6075 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6076 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6077 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6078 comma and a space.
6079
608036. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6081 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6082 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6083 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6084 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6085 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6086 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6087
608837. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6089 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6090 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6091 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6092 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6093
609438. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6095 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6096 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6097 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6098 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6099 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6100 remaining text gets split now.
6101
610239. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6103 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6104 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6105 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6106
610740. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6108 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6109 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6110 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6111 $return_path.
6112
611341. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6114 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6115 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6116 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6117 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6118 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6119 passed through if needed.
6120
612142. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6122 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6123 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6124 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6125 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6126 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6127
612843. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6129 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6130 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6131 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6132 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6133
613444. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6135 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6136 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6137 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6138 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6139
614045. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6141 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6142 noticed.
6143
614446. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6145 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6146 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6147 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6148 mayhem of various kinds.
6149
615047. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6151 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6152 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6153 the right test for positive values.
6154
615548. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6156 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6157 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6158 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6159 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6160 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6161 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6162 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6163 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6164 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6165 envelope.
6166
616749. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6168 module.
6169
617050. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6171 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6172 forbidding it.
6173
617451. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6175 the existing equality matching.
6176
617752. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6178 dealing with inode numbers.
6179
618053. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6181 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6182 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6183
618454. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6185 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6186 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6187 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6188 local_scan().
6189
619055. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6191 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6192 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6193 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6194 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6195 relay addresses has also been removed.
6196
619756. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6198
619957. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6200 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6201 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6202
620358. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6204 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6205 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6206 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6207 processing applies to CR:
6208
6209 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6210 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6211
6212 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6213 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6214 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6215 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6216
621759. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6218 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6219 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6220
622160. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6222 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6223 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6224 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6225 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6226 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6227 arisen.
6228
622961. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6230 program routers.
6231
623262. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6233 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6234 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6235 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6236 adds:
6237
6238 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6239
6240 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6241
6242 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6243
624463. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6245 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6246 not considered personal.
6247
624864. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6249
625065. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6251
625266. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6253
625467. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6255 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6256 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6257 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6258 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6259 header lines, and spool format errors.
6260
626168. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6262 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6263 for more flexibility.
6264
626569. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6266 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6267 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6268
626970. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6270 Sabourenkov.
6271
627271. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6273 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6274 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6275 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6276 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6277 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6278 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6279 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6280 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6281
628272. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6283 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6284 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6285 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6286 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6287 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6288 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6289
629073. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6291 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6292 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6293
629474. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6295 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6296 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6297 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6298 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6299 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6300 instead of killing the process with assert().
6301
630275. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6303 than Unicode encoding.
6304
630576. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6306 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6307 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6308 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6309
631077. Added process_log_path.
6311
631278. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6313 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6314
631579. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6316 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6317
631880. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6319 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6320 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6321
632281. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6323 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6324 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6325 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6326 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6327 were applied:
6328
6329 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6330 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6331 as invalid.
6332
633382. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6334 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6335 they will be used during message reception.
6336
6337
6338Exim version 4.20
6339-----------------
6340
6341The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6342
6343****