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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5Exim version 4.83
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8TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
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10 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
11 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
12 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
13 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
14 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
15 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
16
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17TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
18 utilities have not been installed.
19
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20JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
21 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
22
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23TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
24 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
25
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26TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
27 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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28 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
29 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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31JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
32
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33TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
34 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
35
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36PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
37 not dns_use_dnssec.
38
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39JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
40
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41TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
42 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
43 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
44
8ddef691 45TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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46 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
47 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
48 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
49 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 50 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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52JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
53
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54JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
55 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
56
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57JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
58 failed delivery.
59
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60JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
61
511a6c14 62JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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64JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
65 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 66
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67JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
68 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
69
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70TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
71
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72JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
73
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74JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
75 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
76
77 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
78 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
79 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
80
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81TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
82 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
83 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
84 analysis.
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86JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
87
8c51eead 88JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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89 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
90 lookup).
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92TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
93 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
94 Schlichting.
35aba663 95
fd3b6a4a 96JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 97 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 98
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99TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
100 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
101
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102JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
103
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104TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
105 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
106 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
107
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108JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
109 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
110
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111JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
112 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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113 hosts_request_ocsp.
114
115JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1::string} can now
116 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 117 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 118
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119JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
120
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121TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
122 Christian Aistleitner.
123
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128PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
129
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130PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
131 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
132
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133PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
134 by GnuTLS.
135
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136PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
137 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
138 routines.
139
13363eba 140PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 141
66645890 142PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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143 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
144 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
145 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
146 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 147
a3fb9793 148PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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149 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
150 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
151 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 152 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 153 Bugzilla 1117.
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d27f98fe 155TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 156
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157TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
158
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159TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
160 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
161
ae0e32ee 162TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 163 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 164 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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166TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 167
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168TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
169
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170TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
171 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
172
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173JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
174
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175JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
176
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177PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
178
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179NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
180 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 181
585121e2 182JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 183
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184PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
185 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
186 function.
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188PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
189 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
190
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191JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
192 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
193 "acl = name arg..."
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195JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
196
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197JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
198
ea722490 199JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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200 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
201
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202JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
203 Bugzilla 884.
204
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205JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
206 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
207
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208JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
209 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
210
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211PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
212 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 213 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
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215JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
216 authenticators.
217
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218JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
219 for control.
220
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221PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
222
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223PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
224 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
225 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
226 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
227
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228TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
229
230 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
231 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
232 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
233 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
234 the retry rules.
235
236 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
237 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
238 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
239
240 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
241 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
242 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
243 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
244
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245 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
246 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
247 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
248 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
249 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
250 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
251 delivery, as in LMTP.
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252
253 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
254 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
255
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256TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
257
258 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
259
260 Resent-From: f
261
262 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
263 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
264 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
265 username as equal to the username.
266
267 This change corrects that bug.
268
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269GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
270 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
271 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
272
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273TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
274
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275PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
276 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
277 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
278 NULL dereference and crash.
279
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280JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
281
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282PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
283 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
284 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
285
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286SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
287
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288JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
289 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
290 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
291 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
292 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
293 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
294 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
295 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
296 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
297 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
298 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
299
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300PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
301 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
302
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303PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
304 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
305 Bugzilla 880.
306
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307PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
308 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
309 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
310 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
311 an empty string is now equivalent.
312
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313PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
314 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
315 not performing validation itself.
316
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317PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
318 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
319
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320JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
321 Bugzilla 321, 823.
322
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323TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
324
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325PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
326 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
327 other false fix of the same issue.
328 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
329 Bugzilla 1363.
330
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331PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
332 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
333
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334PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
335 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
336 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
337
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338PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
339 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
340 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
341
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342TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
343
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344JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
345
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346TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
347 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
348
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349TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
350 Alexander Miroch.
351
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352TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
353 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
354 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
355 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
356 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 357
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358TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
359 the src/util/ subdirectory.
360
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361TL/13 Bug 1301 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
362 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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363 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
364
365TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
366 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
367 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
368 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
369
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370TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
371
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372TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
373 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
374 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 375
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376TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
377
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378TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
379 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
380 interaction.
381
382TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
383 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
384
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385TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
386 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
387
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391
392PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
393 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 394 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
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399
400PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
401 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
402 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
403
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404NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
405
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406NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
407 improved.
408
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409NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
410
c1e794ba 411PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 412
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413PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
414
415PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
416 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
417
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418PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
419 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
420
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421PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
422 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
423
f1e05cc7 424PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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425 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
426 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 427
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428PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
429
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430PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
431 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
432
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433PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
434
c45dd180 435PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 436
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437PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
438 non-compliant senders.
439 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
440
eae0036b 441NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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442 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
443 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
444
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445PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
446 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
447 in spool file corruption.
448
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449PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
450 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
451 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
452 "Got SSL error 2".
453
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454TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
455 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
456 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
457
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458JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
459 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
460
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461JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
462
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463PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
464 diagnostics.
465 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
466
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467PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
468 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
469 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
470
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471PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
472 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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473 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
474 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 475
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476PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
477 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
478
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479PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
480 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
481 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
482 resolver implementation change.
483
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484PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
485 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
486
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487PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
488
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489PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
490
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491PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
492 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
493
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494PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
495 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
496
9e45c72b 497JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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498 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
499
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500PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
501 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
502 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
503 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 504 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 505
53947857 506PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 507
eae0036b 508PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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509 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
510 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 511
9e45c72b 512JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 513
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514PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
515 read-only, out of scope).
516 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
517
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518PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
519 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
520 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
521 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
522
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523PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
524
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525PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
526 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
527 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
528 real issues in debug logging.
529
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530PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
531 assignment on my part. Fixed.
532
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533PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
534 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
535 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
536
537PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
538 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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539 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
540 problems.
3375e053 541
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542PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
543 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
544
57eb9e91 545PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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546 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
547 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
548 needs to override this, it can.
549
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550PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
551 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
552 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
553
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554PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
555 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
556 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
557 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
558
3ecab157 559PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 560
0599f9cf 561
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562Exim version 4.77
563-----------------
564
565PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
566 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
567
f1a29782
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568TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
569
ab42bd23
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570TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
571 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 572
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573TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
574 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
575
921b12ca
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576TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
577 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
578 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
579
580 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
581 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
582 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
583 not safe for signals.
584
585 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
586 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
587 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
588 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
589 exiwhat.
590
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591TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
592
593 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
594 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
595 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
596 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
597 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
598
599 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
600 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
601 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
602 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
603 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
604 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
605
606 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
607 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
608 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
609 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
610
611 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
612 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
613 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
614 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
615
616 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
617 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
618 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
619 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
620 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
621 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
622 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
623 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
624 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
625
626 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
627 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
628 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
629 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
630
631 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
632 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
633 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
634 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
635 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
636 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
637 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
638 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
639 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
640 details in the main documentation.
641
3634fc25
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642TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
643
792e8a19
TF
644TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
645
5901f0ab
TF
646TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
647 repository when doing development or release builds.
648
7f2a2a43
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649PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
650 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 651
061b7ebd
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652PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
653 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
654 Bugzilla 97.
655
e12f8c32
PP
656PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
657
9e949f00 658PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
659 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
660
661PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
662 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 663
555ae6af 664PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
665 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
666
667PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
668 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 669
6f7fe114
PP
670PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
671 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
672
c566dd90
PP
673PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
674 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
675 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
676 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 677
d6cc7c78 678PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
679 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
680 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
681
0d0e4455
PP
682PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
683
3399bb60 684PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
685
686PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
687 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
688
0ca0cf52 689
10906672
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690Exim version 4.76
691-----------------
692
693PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
694
754a0503
PP
695PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
696 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
697
c0c7b2da
PP
698PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
699
e97d1f08
PP
700PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
701
084c1d8c
PP
702PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
703 Bugzilla 1098.
704
4e7ee012
PP
705PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
706 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 707
c8d52a00
PP
708TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
709 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
710
54e7ce4a
PP
711PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
712 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
713
5ee6f336
PP
714PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
715 Bugzilla 1104.
716
c8d52a00 717TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
718 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
719
720TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
721 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
722 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
723 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
724
725PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
726 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 727
10906672 728
aa097c4c
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729Exim version 4.75
730-----------------
731
4c9ef03a 732NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
733 Bugzilla 1073
734
7f3d9eff
TF
735TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
736 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
737 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
738
159f52d2
TF
739TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
740 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
741
0cc9542a
PP
742PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
743 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
744 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
745
f7274286
PP
746PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
747 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
748
7b797365
PP
749PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
750 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
751
caacae52
NM
752NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
753 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
754
09dcaba9
NM
755NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
756 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
757
bc19a55b
PP
758PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
759 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 760
bd4c9759
NM
761NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
762 Fixes bug 943.
763
b72aab72
PP
764PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
765 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
766
2fe76745
PP
767PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
768 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
769
76aa570c
PP
770PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
771 SQL string expansion failure details.
772 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
773
f1e5fef5
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774PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
775 Patch from Simon Arlott.
776
4d805ee9
PP
777PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
778 extern declarations in function scope.
779 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
780
cd59ab18
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781PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
782 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
783 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
784 a kernel bug).
785
332f5cf3
PP
786PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
787 Patch from Mark Zealey.
788
29cfeb94
PP
789PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
790 Patch from Mark Zealey.
791
660242ad
PP
792PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
793 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
794
bc4bc4c5
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795PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
796 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
797
2e64baa9
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798NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
799 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
800 Dennis Davis.
801
bddd7526
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802PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
803
6bac1a9a
PP
804PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
805
552193f0
NM
806NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
807 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 808
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809TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
810 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
811
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813Exim version 4.74
814-----------------
815
816TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
817 consequences so log it to the panic log.
818
c0ea85ab
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819TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
820 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
821
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822TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
823
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824DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
825 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
826 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
827
828PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
829 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
830 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
831
fea24b2e
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832PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
833 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
834 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
835 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
836
6545de78
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837PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
838 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
839 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
840 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
841
1670ef10
PP
842PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
843 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
844 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
845 arbitrary files.
846
c0886197
PP
847PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
848 (Wolfgang Breyha)
849
b7487bce
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850PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
851 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
852 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
853 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
854 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
855
8c07b69f 856
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859
860PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
861 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
862 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
863
6901c596
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864PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
865 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
866
a8c8d6b5
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867JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
868
77bb000f
PP
869PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
870
a29e5231
PP
871PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
872
ec5a0394 873PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 874
55c75993
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875PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
876
453a6645 877PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
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878 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
879 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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880 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
881
8544e77a
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882PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
883 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
884 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
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885 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
886 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 887
83e029d5
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888PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
889
ed7f7860
PP
890PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
891
7d9f747b
PP
892PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
893
4b2241d2
PP
894PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
895
10385c15
PP
896PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
897
dbc4b90d
PP
898PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
899
532be449
PP
900PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
901
6a8de854 902PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
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903 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
904 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 905
5dc43717
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906JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
907
908JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
909 "exim" to be used
55c75993 910
3346ab01
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911PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
912 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
913
491fab4c
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914PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
915 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
916 Notification from John Horne.
917
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918PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
919 compatible.
920
921PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
922 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
923 it normally works.
924
7f36d675
DW
925DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
926 access.
927
c1d94452
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928DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
929 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
930 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
931
e2f5dc15
DW
932DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
933 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
934 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
935 configuration file.
936
cd25e41d
DW
937DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
938 option (effectively making it always true).
939
261dc43e
DW
940DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
941 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
942
fa32850b
DW
943DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
944 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
945
79d4bc3d
PP
946PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
947 run-time user, instead of root.
948
43236f35 949PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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950 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
951
fb08281f
DW
952DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
953 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
954 arguments.
3346ab01 955
74935b98
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956DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
957 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
958 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
959
90b6341f
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960DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
961
57730b52
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962NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
963
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965Exim version 4.72
966-----------------
967
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968JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
969 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
970 typos
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972JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
973 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
974 (Finput)
edae0343 975
9bd3e22c
NM
976NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
977 Patch from Alain Williams
978
bb576ff7
NM
979NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
980
5a1a5845
NM
981NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
982 Patch from Andreas Metzler
983
981a9fad
NM
984NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
985 Patch from Kirill Miazine
986
7fc497ee
NM
987NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
988
1a41defa
JJ
989JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
990
a466095c 991NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 992 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 993
94a6bd0b
NM
994TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
995
996TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
997
998MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
999 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1000 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1001
c1b141a8
NM
1002NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1003 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1004
b26eacf1 1005NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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1006 Patch by Simon Arlott
1007
179c5980 1008PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1009 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1010
9bd3e22c 1011
7c6d71af
NM
1012Exim version 4.71
1013-----------------
1014
7d9f747b 1015TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1016
f013fb92
NM
1017NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1018
0eb8eedd
NM
1019NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1020
663ee6d9
NM
1021NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1022
177ebd9b
NM
1023NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1024
7c6d71af 1025
210f147e
NM
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1027-----------------
1028
cdd3bb85 1029TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1030 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1031
1032TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1033 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1034 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1035
1036TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1037 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1038 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1039
1040TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1041 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1042
210f147e
NM
1043NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1044 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1045 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1046 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1047
deafd5b3
NM
1048NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1049 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1050 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1051
089793a4
TF
1052TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1053
5f16ca82
TF
1054TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1055
dae9d94e 1056NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1057 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1058
7d9f747b 1059NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1060
06864c44
TF
1061TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1062 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1063 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1064 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1065
65a7d8c3 1066NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1067 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1068
23510047 1069TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1070
7d9f747b 1071NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1072
7d8eec3a 1073NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1074 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1075
89dec7b6
TF
1076TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1077 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1078
a99de90c
TF
1079TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1080 that they are available at delivery time.
1081
e2803e40
TF
1082TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1083
7199e1ee
TF
1084TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1085 incoming_port log selectors.
1086
e276e04b
TF
1087TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1088 setting expands to an empty string.
1089
ce552449 1090NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1091 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1092
e765a0f1 1093NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1094 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1095
4f054c63 1096NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1097 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1098
7d9f747b
PP
1099NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1100 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1101
7d9f747b
PP
1102NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1103 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1104
b52bc06e 1105NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1106 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1107
447de4b0
NM
1108NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1109
4c69d561 1110NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1111 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1112
d5c39246 1113NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1114 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1115
0b23848a
TK
1116TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1117
8f3414a1 1118NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1119 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1120
fb6f955d
NM
1121NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1122
1123NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1124
7d9f747b
PP
1125NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1126 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1127
7d9f747b
PP
1128NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1129 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1130
7d9f747b
PP
1131NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1132 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1133
7d9f747b
PP
1134NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1135 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1136
7d9f747b
PP
1137NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1138 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1139
7d9f747b
PP
1140NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1141 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1142
7d9f747b
PP
1143NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1144 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1145
7d9f747b 1146NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1147 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1148
7d9f747b 1149NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1150
7d9f747b
PP
1151NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1152 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1153
7d9f747b 1154NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1155
7d9f747b 1156NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1157
7d9f747b 1158NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1159
7d9f747b 1160NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1161
17792b53 1162NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1163 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1164
7d9f747b
PP
1165NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1166 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1167
91576cec 1168NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1169 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1170
7d9f747b
PP
1171NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1172 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1173
7d9f747b 1174NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1175
7d9f747b 1176NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1177
7d9f747b 1178NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1179
7d9f747b 1180NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1181
deafd5b3 1182
47db1125
NM
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1184-----------------
1185
4b3504d0
TK
1186TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1187 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1188 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1189
1190 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1191 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1192 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1193 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1194 build errors in sieve.c.
1195
81ea09ca
NM
1196NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1197 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1198 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1199
f13cddcb
SC
1200SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1201
7d9f747b 1202NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1203
7d9f747b 1204NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1205
7d9f747b 1206NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1207
1208
eb4c0de6
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1209Exim version 4.68
1210-----------------
1211
1212PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1213
6a3bceb1
PH
1214PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1215 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1216 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1217 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1218 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1219 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1220 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1221 for iplsearch lookups.
1222
1223 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1224 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1225 previously such lookups could never work.
1226
1227 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1228 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1229 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1230
2e30fa9d
TK
1231TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1232 version.
1233
0806a9c5
MH
1234MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1235 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1236 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1237 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1238 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1239 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1240
ae276964
TK
1241TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1242 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1243
0f2cbd1b
MH
1244MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1245 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1246 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1247 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1248 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1249 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1250
2b85bce7
PH
1251PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1252 local_scan API.
1253
93655c46
PH
1254PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1255
6c512171
PH
1256PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1257 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1258 encrypted.
1259
1260PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1261 by clients under certain conditions.
1262
aa6dc513
PH
1263PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1264 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1265
a96603a0
PH
1266PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1267
8f240103
PH
1268PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1269 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1270
1271PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1272
d677b2f2
PH
1273PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1274
d52120f2
PH
1275PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1276
64f2600a
PH
1277PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1278 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1279
8669f003
PH
1280PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1281
a4dc33a8
PH
1282PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1283 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1284
d6a60c0f
PH
1285PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1286
8f128379
PH
1287PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1288
8932dffe
PH
1289PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1290 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1291 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1292 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1293
ddea74fa 1294PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1295 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1296 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1297
ddea74fa 1298PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1299 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1300
ddea74fa
PH
1301PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1302
ce9f225c
PH
1303PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1304
19897d52
PH
1305PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1306
bc64a74d
PH
1307PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1308 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1309 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1310
eb4c0de6 1311
b4ed4da0
PH
1312Exim version 4.67
1313-----------------
1314
22ad45c9
MH
1315MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1316 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1317 Jan Srzednicki.
1318
b4ed4da0
PH
1319PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1320 issue a MAIL command.
1321
431b7361
PH
1322PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1323
1324 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1325
1326 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1327 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1328 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1329 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1330 item. This has been fixed.
1331
1332PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1333 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1334
83da1223
PH
1335PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1336 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1337
54fc8428
PH
1338PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1339 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1340 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1341
34c5e8dd
SC
1342SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1343
bbe15da8
PH
1344PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1345 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1346 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1347 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1348 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1349
0e8a9471
MH
1350MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1351 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1352 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1353
f0872424
PH
1354PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1355 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1356 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1357 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1358
b01dd148
PH
1359PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1360
6bf342e1
PH
1361PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1362
273f34d0
PH
1363PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1364 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1365 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1366 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1367 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1368
cf8b11a5
PH
1369PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1370
41c7c167
PH
1371PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1372 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1373 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1374 values).
1375
9c57cbc0
PH
1376PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1377
f3f065bb
PH
1378PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1379
047bdd8c
PH
1380PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1381
0ce9abe6
PH
1382PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1383
0e22dfd1
PH
1384PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1385
4c590bd1
PH
1386PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1387 no_callout_flush is set.
1388
09945f1e
PH
1389PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1390 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1391 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1392 fixed.
1393
c51b8e75
PH
1394PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1395
e28326d8
PH
1396PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1397 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1398 other ACL rejections are.
1399
75b1493f
PH
1400PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1401 with slight modification.
1402
7c5214ec
PH
1403PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1404 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1405
4311097e
PH
1406PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1407 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1408 connection.
1409
29f89cad
PH
1410PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1411 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1412
5e687460
SC
1413SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1414
c3611384
PH
1415PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1416 expansion side effects.
1417
5a11a7b4
PH
1418PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1419 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1420 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1421 be the same.
1422
0e20aff9
MH
1423MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1424 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1425 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1426
ca86f471
PH
1427PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1428 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1429 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1430 were accidentally chopped off.
1431
a14e5636
PH
1432PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1433 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1434 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1435 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1436 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1437 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1438 pipelining has not been advertised.
1439
ec95d1a6
PH
1440PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1441
42855d71
PH
1442PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1443 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1444 This has been fixed.
1445
57c2c631
PH
1446PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1447 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1448 reported on Solaris.
1449
58c01c94
PH
1450PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1451 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1452 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1453 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1454 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1455 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1456 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1457
dee5a20a
PH
1458PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1459 cpus.
1460
d2ee6114
PH
1461PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1462
b2d5182b
PH
1463PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1464
79749a79
PH
1465PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1466 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1467 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1468 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1469 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1470 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1471
c456d9bb
PH
1472PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1473 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1474 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1475 host_all_ignored option.
1476
cd9868ec
PH
1477PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1478 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1479 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1480 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1481 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1482 is what is supposed to happen).
1483
ebeaf996
PH
1484PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1485 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1486 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1487 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1488 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1489 uses the Exim user.
1490
2679d413
PH
1491PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1492 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1493 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1494 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1495 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1496 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1497 users.
1498
84024b72
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1499PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1500
8005d38e
SC
1501SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1502 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1503 (Jez Hancock).
1504 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1505 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1506
3298c6c6
SC
1507SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1508
a43a27c5
PH
1509PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1510
58eb016e 1511PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1512 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1513 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1514 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1515 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1516 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1517 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1518 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1519 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1520 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1521 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1522
b43a74ea
PH
1523PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1524 advertised in response to EHLO.
1525
b4ed4da0 1526
5dd1517f
PH
1527Exim version 4.66
1528-----------------
1529
1530PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1531 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1532
1533 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1534 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1535
1536 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1537 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1538 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1539
1540 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1541 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1542 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1543 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1544 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1545
1546
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TK
1547Exim version 4.65
1548-----------------
1549
1550TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1551 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1552 versions. (#438)
1553
d6066548
MH
1554MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1555 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1556 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1557
4362ff0d
PH
1558PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1559 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1560 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1561 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1562 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1563 rather than extend the field.
1564
93cfa765 1565
944e9e9c
TF
1566Exim version 4.64
1567-----------------
aa41d2de 1568
21d74bd9
TK
1569TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1570 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1571 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1572 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1573 these files.
1574
1575TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1576 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1577 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1578
1579TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1580 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1581 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1582
1583TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1584 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1585 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1586 in the field name.
1587
2b1c6e3a
PH
1588PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1589 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1590 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1591 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1592 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1593 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1594 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1595 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1596 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1597 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1598 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1599
1f872c80
PH
1600PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1601 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1602
1603PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1604 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1605 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1606 ignores EPIPE as well.
1607
d203e649
PH
1608PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1609 (quoted-printable decoding).
1610
cc2ed8f7 1611PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1612 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1613
ddfcd446
PH
1614PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1615
d45b1de8
PH
1616PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1617
1618PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1619
38a0a95f 1620PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1621 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1622
a2405d83
JJ
1623JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1624 in 4.64-PH/09.
1625
1626JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1627 miscellaneous code fixes
1628
6ea85e9a
PH
1629PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1630 rejections.
1631
26da7e20
PH
1632PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1633 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1634 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1635 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1636 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1637 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1638 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1639 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1640
14aa5a05 1641PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1642 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1643 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1644 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1645 function.
1646 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1647 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1648 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1649 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1650 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1651 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1652 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1653 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1654 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1655
ff75a1f7
PH
1656PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1657 decoding.
1658
e6f6568e
PH
1659PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1660 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1661 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1662 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1663 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1664 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1665 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1666 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1667
d6f6e0dc
PH
1668PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1669 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1670 list.
1671
322050c2
PH
1672PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1673 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1674 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1675 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1676 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1677 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1678 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1679 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1680 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1681 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1682 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1683 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1684 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1685
08955dd3
PH
1686PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1687 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1688 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1689 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1690 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1691 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1692 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1693
1eccaa59
PH
1694PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1695 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1696 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1697 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1698 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1699 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1700 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1701 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1702 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1703 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1704
602e59e5
PH
1705PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1706 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1707 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1708 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1709 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1710
411ef850
PH
1711PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1712 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1713 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1714 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1715 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1716 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1717 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1718
7befa435
PH
1719PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1720 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1721 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1722 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1723 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1724 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1725 been verified.
1726
48da4259 1727PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1728 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1729 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1730 and authorization.)
1731
48da4259
PH
1732PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1733 if any retry times were supplied.
1734
d1d5595c
PH
1735PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1736 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1737 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1738
0ef732d9
PH
1739PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1740
328895cc
PH
1741PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1742
fd700877
PH
1743PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1744 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1745 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1746 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1747 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1748 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1749
8dce1a6f
PH
1750PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1751 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1752
17af4a17
PH
1753PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1754 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1755 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1756
1757PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1758 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1759 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1760 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1761 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1762 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1763 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1764 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1765 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1766
1767 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1768 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1769 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1770 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1771 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1772 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1773 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1774 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1775 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1776
1777 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1778 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1779 hammering the server.
1780
c1114884
PH
1781PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1782 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1783
7a0743eb
PH
1784PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1785
0d85fa3f
PH
1786PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1787 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1788 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1789
1bf43b78
PH
1790PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1791 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1792 one case where this was not true.
1793
520de300
PH
1794PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1795 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1796 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1797 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1798 fails.
1799
48c7f9e2
PH
1800PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1801 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1802 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1803 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1804 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1805 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1806 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1807 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1808 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1809 smtp transport.
1810
99ea1c86
PH
1811PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1812 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1813 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1814 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1815
a2042e78
PH
1816PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1817 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1818
4fbcfc2e
PH
1819PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1820 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1821 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1822
aa41d2de
PH
1823PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1824
af561417
PH
1825PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1826
3cc66b45
PH
1827PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1828
194cc0e4
PH
1829PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1830 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1831 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1832 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1833
a401ddaa
PH
1834PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1835 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1836
4e88a19f
PH
1837PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1838 be meaningful with "accept".
1839
d7d7b289
SC
1840SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1841 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1842
1843SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1844 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1845 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1846
1847SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1848 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1849 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1850 there is data to show.
1851 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1852
1853SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1854 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1855 as well as the number of messages.
1856
1857SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1858 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1859 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1860
1861SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1862 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1863 have a flag are now skipped.
1864
1865SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1866 Added the -emptyok flag.
1867
1868SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1869 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1870
0ea2a468
JJ
1871JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1872 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1873 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1874
1875JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1876 match 4.64-PH/13
1877
1878JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1879 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1880
1881JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1882
1883JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1884 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1885
8a10f5a4
PH
1886PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1887
30e18802
PH
1888PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1889 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1890 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1891 contravention of the specifications.
1892
55728a4f
PH
1893PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1894 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1895 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1896
d7837193
PH
1897PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1898 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1899 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1900
87054a31
PH
1901PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1902
ea2c01d2
MH
1903MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1904 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1905 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1906 some point in the past.
1907
e4fa6968
PH
1908PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1909 transport during callout processing was broken.
1910
56f5d9bd
PH
1911PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1912 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1913
922e1c28
PH
1914PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1915 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1916
21eb6e72
PH
1917PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1918 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1919
a0540757
PH
1920PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1921
944e9e9c 1922
478be7b0
SC
1923Exim version 4.63
1924-----------------
1925
1926SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1927 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1928
1929SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1930 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1931 there is data to show.
1932 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1933
1934SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1935 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1936
2b965a65
TF
1937TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1938 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1939
45b91596
PH
1940TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1941 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1942
c59f5781
TF
1943TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1944 submissions from trusted users.
1945
90fc3069
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1946TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1947 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1948
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1949TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1950 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1951 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1952 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1953 there is now a framework to start from.
1954
765b530f
PH
1955PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1956 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1957 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1958
4e167a8c
PH
1959PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1960
4608d683
PH
1961PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1962
b8dc3e4a
PH
1963PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1964
5418e93b
PH
1965PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1966 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1967 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1968
b4a9bda2
PH
1969PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1970 libradius.
1971
45b91596
PH
1972PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1973 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1974 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1975
5547e2c5
PH
1976PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1977 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1978 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1979 its arguments.
1980
dbcef0ea
PH
1981PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1982 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1983 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1984 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1985 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1986
25257489
PH
1987PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1988 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1989
c816d124
PH
1990PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1991
a9ccd69a
PH
1992PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1993 operations in malware.c.
1994
75fa1910
PH
1995PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1996 signatures.
1997
a7d7aa58
PH
1998PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1999 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2000 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2001 all.
2002
42119b09
PH
2003PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2004 statements to "add_header".
2005
41609df5
PH
2006PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2007 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2008
a5bd321b
PH
2009PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2010 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2011 latter.
2012
e85a7ad5 2013PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2014 so that it is now:
2015
e85a7ad5
PH
2016 ${if or { \
2017 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2018 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2019 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2020 }{no}{yes}}
2021
e85a7ad5
PH
2022 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2023 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2024
d8fe1c03
PH
2025PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2026 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2027
16282d2b
PH
2028PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2029 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2030 any possible encoding problems.
2031
35d40a98
PH
2032PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2033 but not after initializing Perl.
2034
034d99ab
PH
2035PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2036 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2037 apparently, which is not desirable.
2038
6ec97b1b
PH
2039PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2040 queries.
2041
e22ca4ac
JJ
2042JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2043 --not options
2044
2045JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2046
33d73e3b
PH
2047PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2048 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2049 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2050 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2051
9ecb03f3
PH
2052PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2053 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2054 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2055
084efe8d
PH
2056PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2057 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2058 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2059 0.12.
2060
366fc9f0
PH
2061PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2062 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2063 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2064 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2065 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2066
c59f5781 2067
c887c79e
TF
2068Exim version 4.62
2069-----------------
2070
2071TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2072 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2073
1cce3af8
PH
2074PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2075 patch).
2076
afb3eaaf
PH
2077PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2078 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2079 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2080 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2081 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2082 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2083 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2084 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2085 451 error is used.
2086
e173618b
PH
2087PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2088
dd16e114
PH
2089PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2090 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2091 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2092
f7fd3850
PH
2093PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2094 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2095 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2096 odd errors.
2097
d87df92c
PH
2098PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2099 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2100
7e9f683d
PH
2101PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2102 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2103 option (which defaults to 0600).
2104
bfad5236
PH
2105PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2106
01c490df
PH
2107PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2108 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2109 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2110 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2111 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2112 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2113 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2114
d6629cdc
PH
2115PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2116
1cce3af8 2117
214e2000
PH
2118Exim version 4.61
2119-----------------
2120
2121PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2122 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2123 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2124 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2125 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2126 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2127 addresses as local.
2128
f9daeae0
PH
2129PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2130 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2131
7e66e54d
PH
2132PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2133
c8ea1597
PH
2134PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2135 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2136 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2137 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2138 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2139 grumble.
2140
911f6fde
PH
2141PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2142 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2143
47ca6d6c
PH
2144PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2145 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2146 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2147 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2148 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2149
ed0e9820
PH
2150PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2151 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2152 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2153 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2154
eff37e47
PH
2155PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2156 be the same on different OS.
2157
1921d2ea
PH
2158PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2159 testing.
2160
b3f69ca8
JJ
2161JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2162 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2163
2164JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2165 in 4.61-PH/06
2166
424a1c63
PH
2167PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2168 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2169 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2170 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2171 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2172 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2173 bounce message.
2174
7a100415
PH
2175PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2176 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2177 when Exim was called.
2178
19b9dc85
PH
2179PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2180 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2181
309bd837
PH
2182PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2183 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2184 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2185 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2186
59e82a2a
PH
2187PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2188 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2189 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2190 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2191 changes:
2192
2193 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2194 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2195 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2196
2197 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2198 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2199 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2200
9edc04ce
PH
2201PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2202 feature).
2203
1349e1e5
PH
2204PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2205 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2206 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2207 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2208 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2209 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2210 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2211 values from the SRV records were lost.
2212
ea49d0e1
PH
2213PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2214 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2215 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2216
064a94c9
PH
2217PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2218 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2219 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2220
727071f8
PH
2221PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2222 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2223 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2224 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2225 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2226 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2227 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2228 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2229 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2230 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2231
f78eb7c6
PH
2232PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2233 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2234 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2235
21c28500
PH
2236PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2237 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2238
2239PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2240 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2241 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2242 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2243 is given.
2244
1688f43b
PH
2245PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2246 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2247 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2248
2249PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2250 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2251 PH/23 above applies.
2252
9675b384
PH
2253PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2254 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2255 (for which there is an explicit test).
2256
6a3f1455
PH
2257PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2258
dac79d3e
PH
2259PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2260 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2261 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2262 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2263 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2264
5977a0b3
PH
2265PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2266 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2267 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2268 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2269
c91535f3
PH
2270PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2271 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2272 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2273
0d46a8c8
PH
2274PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2275
278c6e6c
PH
2276PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2277
2cbb4081
PH
2278PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2279 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2280 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2281
3eef829e
PH
2282PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2283 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2284 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2285 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2286 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2287
1ab95fa6
PH
2288PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2289 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2290 the message gets confusing).
2291
230205fc
PH
2292PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2293 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2294 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2295 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2296
75e0e026
PH
2297PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2298 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2299 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2300 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2301 same order.
2302
2303PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2304 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2305 the different processes.
2306
145396a6
PH
2307PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2308
3cd34f13
PH
2309PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2310
11121d3d
JJ
2311JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2312 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2313
2314JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2315 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2316
2317JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2318 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2319 messages matching specified criteria.
2320
8def5aaf
PH
2321PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2322
929ba01c
PH
2323PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2324 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2325
2632889e
PH
2326PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2327 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2328 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2329 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2330 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2331 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2332 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2333 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2334 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2335 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2336
944a9c55
PH
2337PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2338 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2339 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2340
4a23603b
PH
2341PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2342
4730f942
PH
2343PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2344 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2345 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2346 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2347 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2348 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2349 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2350 the variable.
2351
30dba1e6
PH
2352PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2353 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2354
382afc6b
PH
2355PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2356
a86229cf
PH
2357PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2358
50c99ba6
PH
2359PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2360
d35e429d
PH
2361PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2362 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2363 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2364 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2365 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2366 size of the count of files.
2367
f90d018c
PH
2368PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2369
75def545
PH
2370PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2371 used in LMTP mode:
2372
2373 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2374 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2375 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2376 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2377
2378 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2379 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2380 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2381
2382PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2383 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2384 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2385 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2386 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2387
c46782ef
PH
2388PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2389 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2390
71fafd95
PH
2391PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2392 will now be deprecated.
2393
2c5db4fd
PH
2394PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2395
9cf6b11a
JJ
2396JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2397 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2398 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2399
2400JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2401 with very large, slow to parse queues
2402
2403JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2404
2405JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2406
898d150f
PH
2407PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2408 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2409 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2410 SMTP output lines.
2411
46218253
PH
2412PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2413 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2414 Sieve code now uses this.
2415
e97957bc
PH
2416PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2417 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2418
81e509d7
PH
2419PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2420 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2421
3d240ff7
PH
2422PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2423
b37c4101
PH
2424PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2425 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2426 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2427 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2428 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2429
79378e0f
PH
2430PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2431 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2432 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2433 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2434
e49c7bb4
PH
2435PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2436
d114ec46
PH
2437PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2438
f3d7df6c
PH
2439PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2440 is preferred over IPv4.
2441
715ab376
PH
2442PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2443 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2444 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2445 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2446 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2447 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2448 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2449
6b31b150
PH
2450PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2451 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2452 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2453
2454PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2455
d515a917
PH
2456PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2457 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2458 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2459 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2460 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2461 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2462 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2463 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2464 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2465 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2466 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2467
9b8fadde
PH
2468PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2469 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2470 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2471
214e2000 2472
5de37277
PH
2473Exim version 4.60
2474-----------------
2475
cc38ddbf
PH
2476PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2477
2478 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2479 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2480
2481 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2482 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2483 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2484
72fdd6ae
PH
2485PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2486
2487 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2488 not a single digit.
2489
2490 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2491 string.
2492
2493 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2494 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2495 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2496 silly things.
2497
2498 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2499 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2500
2501 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2502 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2503
cb741023
PH
2504PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2505 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2506 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2507
f174f16e
PH
2508PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2509 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2510
c25242d7
PH
2511PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2512 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2513
2514 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2515
2516 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2517 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2518 this:
2519
2520 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2521
82c19f95
PH
2522PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2523 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2524 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2525 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2526 identical. For example:
2527
2528 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2529
2530 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2531 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2532 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2533
d7ffbc12
PH
2534PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2535 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2536 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2537 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2538
9f526266
PH
2539PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2540 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2541 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2542 message.
2543
87fcc8b9
PH
2544PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2545
2546 o fixes some comments
2547 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2548 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2549 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2550 and documents the missing references header update
2551
2552 and most important:
2553
2554 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2555 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2556 result)
2557
456682f5
PH
2558PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2559 Electronic Mail") by including:
2560
2561 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2562
2563 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2564 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2565 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2566 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2567 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2568
2569 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2570
2571 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2572
2573 The auto-replied keyword:
2574
2575 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2576 message by an automatic process,
2577
2578 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2579
2580 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2581 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2582
2583 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2584 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2585 other messages.
2586
3e46c1aa
PH
2587PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2588 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2589
49826d12
PH
2590PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2591
eba0c039
PH
2592PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2593 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2594 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2595
a0d6ba8a
PH
2596PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2597 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2598 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2599
f0917727
PH
2600PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2601 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2602 and treats the condition as false.
2603
096fee00
PH
2604PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2605
024bd3c2
PH
2606PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2607 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2608 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2609 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2610 not changing the active code.
2611
2612 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2613 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2614
2615 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2616 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2617
df199fec
PH
2618PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2619 (Bugzilla #53).
2620
d27f1df3
PH
2621PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2622 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2623 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2624 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2625 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2626 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2627 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2628 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2629 the text comparison.
2630
96776534
PH
2631PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2632 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2633 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2634 The same fix has been applied.
2635
5de37277 2636
9a799bc0
PH
2637Exim version 4.54
2638-----------------
2639
2640PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2641 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2642 It now does.
2643
99a4b039
PH
2644PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2645 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2646
2647PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2648
4b233853
PH
2649PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2650 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2651 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2652 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2653 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2654
8857ccfd
PH
2655TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2656 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2657 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2658 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2659 or /domain=).
2660
433a2980
PH
2661PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2662 testing suite.
2663
3e46c1aa 2664
9a799bc0 2665
e3a311ba
TK
2666Exim version 4.53
2667-----------------
2668
2669TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2670 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2671
13b685f9
PH
2672PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2673
395ff96d
PH
2674PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2675
5b68f6e4
PH
2676PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2677 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2678 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2679
1ab52c69
PH
2680PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2681 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2682 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2683
b07e6aa3
PH
2684PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2685 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2686 operating systems.
2687
254e032f
PH
2688PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2689 ${stat: expansion item.
2690
3af76a81
PH
2691PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2692 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2693
2548ba04
PH
2694PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2695 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2696 file for comments.
2697
b6c6011d
PH
2698PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2699
cf39cf57
PH
2700PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2701 setting.
2702
f1513293
PH
2703PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2704 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2705
727549a4
PH
2706TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2707
af46795e
PH
2708PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2709 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2710 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2711 the end of the subprocess.
2712
d7b47fd0
PH
2713PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2714 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2715 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2716 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2717 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2718
ee744174
JJ
2719JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2720
b582ab87
PH
2721TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2722
41a13e0a
PH
2723PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2724 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2725
f625cc5a
PH
2726PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2727
2728PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2729
21f7af35
PH
2730PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2731 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2732 HP-UX compiler.
2733
31480e42
PH
2734PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2735
2d280592
PH
2736PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2737 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2738 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2739
7cd1141b
PH
2740PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2741 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2742
2743PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2744 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2745
750af86e
PH
2746PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2747 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2748
2749 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2750 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2751
2752 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2753 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2754 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2755 contributed by a Radius user.
2756
2757PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2758 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2759
4304270b
TK
2760TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2761 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2762
750af86e
PH
2763PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2764 available.
2765
64ffc24f
PH
2766PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2767 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2768 received.
2769
5dd9625b
PH
2770PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2771 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2772 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2773 header lines when this was not necessary.
2774
5591031b
PH
2775PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2776
ba18e66a
PH
2777PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2778 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2779 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2780 exists".
2781
9cec981f
PH
2782PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2783 -bV or -d is used.
2784
aa2b5c79
PH
2785PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2786 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2787 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2788 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2789
48a53b7f
PH
2790PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2791
1c59d63b
PH
2792PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2793
671012da
TK
2794TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2795
1509d3a8
PH
2796PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2797
2798PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2799 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2800 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2801 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2802 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2803 settings.
2804
2805PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2806
2fe1a124
PH
2807PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2808 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2809 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2810 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2811 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2812 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2813 which is clearly wrong.
2814
8800895a
PH
2815PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2816
ccfdb010
PH
2817PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2818 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2819 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2820 subsequently added.
2821
1130bfb0
PH
2822PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2823 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2824
ebcb507f
PH
2825PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2826
c35e155c
PH
2827PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2828 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2829
95d1f782
PH
2830PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2831 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2832
fd6de02e
PH
2833PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2834 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2835
58de37c5
PH
2836PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2837 recipients, not senders.
2838
261cf466
TF
2839TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2840 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2841
3ee512ff
PH
2842PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2843
e08c430f
PH
2844PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2845
bef5a11f
PH
2846PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2847 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2848 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2849 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2850
7546de58
TF
2851TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2852
e5d5a95f
TF
2853TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2854 clock is set back in time.
2855
2e88a017
TF
2856TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2857 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2858
a5f65aa4
TF
2859TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2860 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2861
e7726cbf
PH
2862PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2863 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2864 (see PH/47 above).
2865
a7fdad5b
TF
2866TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2867 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2868 header rewrites.
2869
6af56900
PH
2870PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2871 type ("H").
2872
0925ede6
PH
2873PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2874
66afa403
TF
2875TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2876 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2877 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2878
0154e85a
TF
2879TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2880 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2881 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2882 helo verification defer as a failure.
2883
16f12c76
PH
2884PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2885 actual error message.
2886
bbe902f0 2887
e5a9dba6
PH
2888Exim version 4.52
2889-----------------
2890
2891TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2892
22c3b60b
PH
2893PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2894 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2895 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2896 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2897
06a9b4b5
PH
2898TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2899
c1ac6996
PH
2900PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2901 can still be requested.
2902
9c7a242c
PH
2903PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2904 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2905 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2906 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2907
87ba3f5f
PH
2908TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2909 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2910 circumstances, but probably never did.
2911
2912PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2913 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2914 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2915 in the header line.
2916
29aba418
TF
2917TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2918
fe0dab11
TF
2919TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2920 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2921
11d337a4
TK
2922TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2923
2924TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2925
415c8f3b
PH
2926PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2927 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2928 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2929 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2930 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2931 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2932
958541e9
PH
2933PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2934 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2935 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2936 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2937 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2938 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2939
c206415f
TK
2940TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2941 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2942
2a4be8f9
PH
2943PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2944 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2945
1cba11c5
SC
2946SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2947 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2948
2949SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2950
2951SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2952
2953SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2954
2955SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2956
2957SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2958
2959SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2960
1005d00e
TK
2961TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2962
2963TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2964 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2965 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2966
2967TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2968 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2969 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2970 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2971
9b4768fa
PH
2972PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2973 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2974 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2975
2976PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2977 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2978 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2979 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2980
0d7eb84a
PH
2981PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2982 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2983 to be made).
2984
2985PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2986 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2987 should work with maildirs and everything.
2988
40727bee
TK
2989TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2990 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2991
554d2369
TF
2992TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2993 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2994
1f922db1
PH
2995PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2996 function for BDB 4.3.
2997
ef213c3b
PH
2998PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2999
8ac170f3
PH
3000PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3001 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3002 involved.
3003
b1c749bb
PH
3004PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3005 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3006 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3007 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3008 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3009 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3010
4aac9b49
PH
3011PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3012 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3013 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3014 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3015 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3016 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3017 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3018 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3019
294520c8
TK
3020TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3021 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3022 details.
3023
5bd022fe
PH
3024PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3025 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3026
90e9ce59
PH
3027PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3028 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3029 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3030 test. It is now used for both.
3031
5ea81592
PH
3032PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3033 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3034 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3035 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3036 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3037 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3038
c6c2dc1d
PH
3039PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3040 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3041 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3042 string_vformat().
3043
fffffe4c
PH
3044PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3045 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3046 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3047
9a26b6b2
PH
3048PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3049 experimental DomainKeys support:
3050
3051 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3052 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3053 the control was given.
3054
3055 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3056
4aee0225
PH
3057PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3058
32d668a5
PH
3059PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3060
8187c3f3
PH
3061PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3062 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3063 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3064 db.h files).
3065
ff790e47 3066PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3067 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3068 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3069 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3070 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3071 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3072 course.
ff790e47 3073
5417f6d1
PH
3074PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3075 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3076 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3077 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3078 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3079 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3080
59cf8544
PH
3081PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3082 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3083 do -d+all out of habit.
3084
e7ad8a65
PH
3085PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3086 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3087 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3088
ade42478
PH
3089PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3090 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3091 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3092 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3093 record types that Exim uses.
3094
182ad5cf
PH
3095PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3096 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3097 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3098 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3099 non-existent file that was broken.
3100
b0d9fc80
TK
3101TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3102 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3103
3104TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3105 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3106 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3107
3108TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3109
47c7a64a
PH
3110PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3111 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3112 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3113 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3114 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3115 same time.
3116
a388bce4
SC
3117SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3118 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3119 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3120 at a slight CPU cost.
3121
3122SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3123 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3124
3125SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3126 by Marc Sherman.
3127
0793e4ed
SC
3128SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3129
c58b88df
PH
3130PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3131 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3132
e7ad8a65 3133
7982096b
PH
3134Exim version 4.51
3135-----------------
3136
1a46a8c5
PH
3137TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3138 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3139
2f079f46 3140TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3141
3142TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3143
3144PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3145 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3146
3147PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3148 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3149 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3150 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3151 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3152 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3153 file.
3154
3155PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3156 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3157 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3158 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3159 these two options.
3160
3161PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3162 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3163 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3164 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3165 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3166 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3167 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3168 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3169
3170PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3171 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3172
3173PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3174 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3175 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3176 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3177 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3178 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3179
3180PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3181 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3182 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3183 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3184
3185PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3186 Finch).
3187
3188PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3189 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3190
49c2d5ea
PH
3191PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3192 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3193 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3194 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3195 message.
49c2d5ea 3196
bf759a8b
PH
3197PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3198
83364d30
PH
3199PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3200 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3201
7999bbd7
PH
3202PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3203 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3204 to what was transported.)
3205
7dbf77c9
PH
3206TF/01 Added $received_time.
3207
74e0617f
PH
3208PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3209 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3210 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3211 spamd_address settings.
3212
2f079f46
PH
3213PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3214 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3215 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3216 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3217 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3218
8c841523
PH
3219PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3220
7766a4f0
PH
3221PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3222 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3223 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3224 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3225 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3226
8b417f2c
PH
3227PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3228 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3229
901f42cb
PH
3230PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3231 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3232 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3233 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3234 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3235 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3236 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3237 for failure.
3238
f9b9210e
PH
3239PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3240 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3241 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3242 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3243 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3244 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3245 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3246 "input=".
3247
54cdb463
PH
3248PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3249
cf00dad6
PH
3250PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3251 driver and ACL definitions.
3252
acb1b346
PH
3253PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3254 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3255
c5ddb310
PH
3256PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3257 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3258 understands it better than I do:
3259
3260 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3261 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3262
3263 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3264 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3265 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3266 => three warnings about OTP not working
3267 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3268
3269 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3270 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3271 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3272 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3273 for each call.)
3274 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3275 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3276
3277 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3278 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3279 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3280
31619da6
PH
3281PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3282 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3283 specified.
3284
bebaf0fc
PH
3285PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3286 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3287 "Linux".
3288
475fe28a
PH
3289PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3290 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3291 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3292
3293 warn !verify = sender
3294 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3295
3296 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3297 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3298
7e8bec7a
PH
3299PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3300
3301 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3302 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3303
3304 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3305 nomenclature these days.)
3306
e4a89c47
PH
3307PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3308 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3309
5ca2a9a1
PH
3310PH/30 In these circumstances:
3311 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3312 . First host does not offer TLS;
3313 . First host accepts first address;
3314 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3315 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3316 . Second host accepts second address.
3317 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3318 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3319 address.
7e8bec7a 3320
c688b954
PH
3321PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3322 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3323 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3324 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3325 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3326
fed77020
PH
3327PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3328 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3329
7fe1560f
PH
3330PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3331 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3332
ebb6e6d5
PH
3333PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3334 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3335 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3336
9c4e8f60
PH
3337PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3338 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3339 overlooked.
3340
3341PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3342
d7174846
PH
3343PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3344 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3345 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3346 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3347 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3348 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3349 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3350
3351 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3352 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3353 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3354 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3355 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3356
3357 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3358 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3359 routed further.
3360
cfe75fc3
PH
3361PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3362 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3363 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3364 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3365 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3366 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3367
be22d70e
PH
3368PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3369
0612b098
PH
3370PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3371 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3372 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3373 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3374 printable escape sequences.
3375
2e0c1448
PH
3376PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3377 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3378 body only.
3379
447d236c
PH
3380PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3381 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3382 are as follows:
3383
3384 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3385 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3386 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3387 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3388 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3389
3390 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3391 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3392 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3393
d20976dc
PH
3394PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3395
f656d135
PH
3396PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3397 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3398 play with."
3399
2e2a30b4
PH
3400PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3401 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3402 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3403 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3404 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3405 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3406 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3407 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3408 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3409 the log output.
3410
9176e9f0
PH
3411PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3412 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3413 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3414 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3415 "make".
3416
7982096b 3417
bbe902f0
PH
3418A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3419----------------------------------------
3420
3421Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3422changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3423needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3424in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3425that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3426release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3427from 4.43.
3428
3429I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
34304.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3431those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3432historical information.
3433
3434
f7b63901 3435Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3436-----------------
3437
5fe762f6
PH
3438 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3439
139059f6 3440 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3441 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3442
7086e875
PH
3443 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3444 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3445 place.
3446
35af9f61
PH
3447 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3448 filter fails to execute.
3449
b668c215
PH
3450 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3451 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3452 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3453 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3454 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3455
a494b1e1
PH
3456 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3457
3458 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3459 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3460 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3461 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3462
c5fcb476
PH
3463 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3464 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3465 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3466 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3467 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3468
69358f02
PH
3469 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3470
5be20824
PH
347110. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3472
eb2c0248
PH
347311. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3474 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3475 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3476 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3477
2a3eea10
PH
347812. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3479 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3480 sender verification.
3481
348213. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3483 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3484
23c7ff99
PH
348514. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3486
4deaf07d
PH
348715. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3488 connection timeout.
3489
926e1192
PH
349016. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3491 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3492
650edc6f
PH
349317. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3494 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3495
2c7db3f5
PH
349618. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3497 information about exactly what failed.
3498
3d235903
PH
349919. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3500
7c7ad977
PH
350120. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3502 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3503 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3504
981756db
PH
350521. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3506 It is now set to "smtps".
3507
d4eb88df
PH
350822. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3509 ignore_target_hosts.
3510
351123. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3512 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3513 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3514 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3515 "[x.x.x.x]".
3516
7d468ab8
PH
351724. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3518 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3519 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3520
352125. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3522 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3523 wake it up if nothing else does.
3524
62c0818f
PH
352526. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3526 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3527 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3528 end up negative.
3529
26034054
PH
353027. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3531 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3532
af66f652
PH
353328. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3534
90af77f4
PH
353529. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3536 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3537 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3538 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3539 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3540 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3541 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3542 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3543
d8ef3577
PH
354430. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3545 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3546 than one IP address.
3547
5cb8cbc6
PH
354831. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3549 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3550 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3551 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3552
14702f5b
PH
355332. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3554 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3555 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3556 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3557 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3558 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3559
063b1e99
PH
356033. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3561 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3562 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3563 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3564
652e1b65
PH
356534. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3566 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3567 respected.
3568
6f0c9a4f
PH
356935. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3570 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3571 $sender_host_address.
3572
33397d19
PH
357336. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3574 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3575 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3576 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3577 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3578 very small.
3579
7bb56e1f
PH
358037. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3581
3582 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3583 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3584
ea3bc19b
PH
3585 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3586 just the host names, not the priorities.
3587
3588 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3589 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3590 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3591
ea3bc19b 3592 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3593 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3594
0bcb2a0e
PH
359538. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3596 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3597 domain.
3598
2ac0e484
PH
359939. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3600
4e1fde53
PH
360140. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3602 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3603
de365ded
PH
360441. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3605 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3606 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3607
f05da2e8
PH
360842. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3609
d6453af2
PH
361043. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3611
f7b63901
PH
361244. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3613
361445. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3615 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3616 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3617 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3618 because the tests only now provoked it.
3619
a444213a
PH
362046. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3621 (this can affect the format of dates).
3622
0ec020ea
PH
362347. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3624 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3625 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3626 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3627
b1206957
PH
362848. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3629
363049. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3631 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3632 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3633 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3634
26dd5a95
PH
363550. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3636 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3637 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3638
343b2385
PH
363951. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3640 autoreply.
3641
1c5466b9
PH
364252. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3643 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3644 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3645 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3646 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3647 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3648 is going on).
3649
55ee9ee3
PH
365053. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3651 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3652 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3653 the line.
3654
d38f8232
PH
365554. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3656 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3657 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3658
3659 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3660 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3661 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3662 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3663 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3664 so I produce this patch..."
3665
3295e65b
PH
3666 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3667 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3668 is not defined.
3669
7102e136
PH
367055. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3671 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3672 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3673 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3674 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3675
3ca0ba97
PH
367656. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3677
c2bcbe20
PH
367857. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3679 long debug lines gets shown.
3680
18ce445d
PH
368158. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3682 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3683
1f5b4c3d
PH
368459. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3685
3686 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3687 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3688 of $primary_hostname.
3689
b975ba52
PH
369060. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3691 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3692 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3693 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3694 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3695 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3696 by change 4.50/55 above.
3697
3698 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3699 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3700 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3701 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3702 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3703 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3704 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3705
370661. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3707 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3708 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3709 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3710
17ffcae7
PH
371162. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3712 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3713
d95f9fdb
PH
371463. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3715 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3716 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3717 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3718 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3719
86b8287f
PH
372064. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3721 This has been fixed.
3722
60dc5e56
PH
372365. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3724 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3725 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3726 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3727 the caching.)
3728
533244af
PH
372966. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3730
a5a28604
PH
373167. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3732 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3733 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3734 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3735
7e634d24
PH
373668. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3737 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3738
3e11c26b
PH
373969. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3740 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3741 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3742
6729cf78
PH
374370. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3744 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3745 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3746 message there.
3747
00f00ca5
PH
374871. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3749 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3750 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3751
c9bdd01c
PH
375272. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3753 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3754 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3755 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3756
d43194df
PH
375773. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3758 during host lookups.
3759
fe5b5d0b
PH
376074. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3761 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3762
3763 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3764
76a2d7ba
PH
376575. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3766 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3767 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3768 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3769 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3770 background.
3771
377276. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3773 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3774
04f7d5b9
PH
377577. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3776 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3777 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3778
bc60667e
PH
377978. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3780
bb6e88ff
PH
378179. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3782 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3783 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3784 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3785 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3786 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3787 process earlier.
3788
1e70f85b
PH
378980. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3790 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3791 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3792 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3793 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3794
379581. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3796 tables).
3797
4e01f9d6
PH
379882. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3799
1ee1cef2
PH
380083. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3801 "vacation" handling.
3802
6e2b4ccc
PH
380384. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3804 OS variants using glibc.
3805
8e669ac1
PH
380685. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3807
495ae4b0 3808
bbe902f0
PH
3809----------------------------------------------------
3810See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3811----------------------------------------------------
3812
3813
3814Exim version 4.44
3815-----------------
3816
3817 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3818 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3819 transport
3820
3821 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3822 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3823 place.
3824
3825 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3826 filter fails to execute.
3827
3828 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3829 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3830 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3831 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3832 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3833
3834 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3835 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3836 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3837 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3838
3839 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3840 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3841 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3842 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3843 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3844
3845 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3846
3847 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3848 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3849 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3850 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3851
3852 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3853 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3854 sender verification.
3855
385610. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3857 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3858
385911. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3860 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3861
386212. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3863 ignore_target_hosts.
3864
386513. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3866 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3867 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3868 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3869 "[x.x.x.x]".
3870
387114. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3872 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3873 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3874
387515. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3876 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3877 wake it up if nothing else does.
3878
387916. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3880 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3881 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3882 end up negative.
3883
388417. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3885 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3886
ea3a6f44 388718. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3888
388919. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3890 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3891 empty pattern.
3892
389320. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3894 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3895 one IP address.
3896
ea3a6f44
NM
389721. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3898 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3899 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3900 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3901 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3902 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3903
ea3a6f44
NM
390422. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3905 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3906 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3907
390823. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3909 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3910 $sender_host_address.
3911
391224. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3913
ea3a6f44
NM
391425. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3915 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3916 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3917
391826. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3919 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3920
ea3a6f44
NM
392127. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3922 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3923
ea3a6f44
NM
392428. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3925 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3926 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3927 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3928
392929. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3930 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3931 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3932
ea3a6f44
NM
393330. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3934 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3935 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3936 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3937
ea3a6f44
NM
393831. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3939 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3940 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3941
ea3a6f44
NM
394231. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3943 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3944
ea3a6f44
NM
394532. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3946 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3947 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3948 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3949 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3950 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3951 is going on).
bbe902f0 3952
ea3a6f44
NM
395333. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3954 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3955 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3956 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3957 CAN-2005-0021
3958
ea3a6f44
NM
395934. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3960 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3961 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3962 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3963 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3964 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3965 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3966
3967 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3968 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3969 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3970 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3971 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3972 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3973 CAN-2005-0021
3974
ea3a6f44
NM
397535. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3976 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3977 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3978 CAN-2005-0022
3979
ea3a6f44
NM
398036. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3981 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3982 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3983 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3984 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3985
ea3a6f44
NM
398637. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3987 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3988 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3989 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3990 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3991
ea3a6f44
NM
399238. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3993 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3994 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3995 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3996 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3997
3998
495ae4b0
PH
3999Exim version 4.43
4000-----------------
4001
4002 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4003 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4004 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4005 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4006 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4007 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4008 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4009
4010 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4011 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4012 the delivery.
4013
4014 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4015
4016 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4017
4018 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4019 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4020 to local_scan().
4021
4022 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4023 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4024 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4025 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4026 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4027
4028 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4029 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4030
4031 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4032
4033 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4034
403510. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4036 header_sender only.
4037
403811. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4039 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4040
404112. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4042 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4043 affecting debugging statements).
4044
404513. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4046
404714. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4048 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4049 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4050 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4051 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4052 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4053 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4054 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4055 after the received time, and all would be well.
4056
405715. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4058 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4059 condition in an expansion string.
4060
406116. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4062
406317. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4064 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4065 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4066 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4067 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4068 job under whatever limits there are.
4069
407018. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4071
407219. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4073 space).
4074
407520. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4076 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4077 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4078 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4079 return path is set.
4080
408121. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4082 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4083 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4084 binary data in such strings.
4085
408622. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4087
408823. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4089 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4090 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4091 failure, which is pointless.
4092
409324. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4094
409525. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4096
409726. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4098 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4099 Sender: header lines.
4100
410127. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4102 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4103 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4104
410528. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4106 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4107 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4108 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4109 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4110 happens.
4111
411229. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4113 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4114 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4115 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4116 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4117
411830. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4119 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4120 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4121 1024.
4122
412331. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4124 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4125
412632. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4127 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4128
412933. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4130
413132. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4132
413333. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4134
413534. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4136 syntax error.
4137
413835. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4139
414036. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4141
414237. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4143 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4144 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4145 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4146
414738. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4148 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4149
4150
4151Exim version 4.42
4152-----------------
4153
4154 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4155 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4156 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4157 it was not quoted.
4158 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4159 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4160 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4161 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4162 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4163 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4164
4165 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4166 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4167 verification failure".
4168
4169 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4170 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4171 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4172 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4173
4174 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4175 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4176 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4177 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4178 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4179 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4180 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4181 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4182 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4183 treated as a timeout.
4184
4185 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4186 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4187 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4188 not set for Exim filters).
4189
4190 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4191 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4192 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4193
4194 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4195
4196 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4197 try to make them clearer.
4198
4199 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4200 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4201
4202 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4203
4204 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4205
420610. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4207 only the Cygwin environment.
4208
420911. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4210 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4211 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4212 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4213 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4214
421512. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4216 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4217 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4218 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4219 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4220 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4221 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4222
422313. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4224 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4225
422614. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4227
4228 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4229 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4230 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4231
4232 To: susanne@some.where
4233
4234 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4235 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4236 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4237 of addresses in From: header lines).
4238
4239 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4240 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4241 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4242
4243 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4244 treated as non-personal.
4245
4246 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4247 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4248
424915. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4250
425116. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4252
425317. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4254 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4255 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4256
425718. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4258 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4259
426019. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4261 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4262 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4263 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4264 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4265 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4266
426720. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4268 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4269 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4270 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4271 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4272 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4273 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4274 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4275
4276 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4277
427821. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4279 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4280
428122. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4282 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4283 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4284
428523. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4286 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4287
428824. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4289 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4290 rather than long int.
4291
429225. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4293
429426. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4295
4296
4297Exim version 4.41
4298-----------------
4299
4300 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4301 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4302 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4303 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4304 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4305 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4306
4307
4308Exim version 4.40
4309-----------------
4310
4311 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4312 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4313
4314 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4315 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4316 socklen_t is defined.
4317
4318 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4319 always exist.
4320
4321 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4322 configured.
4323
4324 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4325 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4326 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4327 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4328 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4329
4330 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4331 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4332 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4333 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4334
4335 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4336 of flapping under certain conditions.
4337
4338 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4339 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4340 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4341
4342 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4343
434410. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4345
434611. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4347 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4348 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4349 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4350
435112. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4352 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4353 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4354 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4355 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4356 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4357 preserved with the message after it was received.
4358
435913. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4360 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4361 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4362 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4363 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4364 test suite worked just fine.
4365
436614. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4367 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4368 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4369
437015. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4371 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4372 string.
4373
437416. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4375 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4376 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4377 does not fully solve it.
4378
437917. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4380 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4381 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4382 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4383 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4384
438518. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4386 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4387 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4388
438919. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4390 string, for example:
4391
4392 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4393
4394 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4395 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4396 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4397 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4398 the routers could not see them.
4399
440020. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4401 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4402
440321. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4404 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4405 output).
4406
440722. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4408 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4409 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4410 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4411 that needed quoting.
4412
441323. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4414 was not being matched caselessly.
4415
441624. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4417 backslashes.
4418
441925. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4420 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4421 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4422 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4423 when use_sender is false.
4424
442526. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4426
442727. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4428
442928. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4430
443129. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4432 the configuration file.
4433
443430. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4435 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4436
443731. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4438
443932. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4440 bytes in the message body.
4441
444233. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4443 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4444 delivery.
4445
444634. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4447
444835. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4449
445036. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4451 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4452 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4453 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4454 another IP address.
4455
4456
4457Exim version 4.34
4458-----------------
4459
4460 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4461 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4462
4463 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4464 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4465 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4466 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4467 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4468
4469 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4470 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4471
4472 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4473 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4474 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4475
4476 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4477 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4478 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4479
4480 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4481 for routers.
4482
4483 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4484 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4485 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4486 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4487 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4488 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4489 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4490
4491
4492Exim version 4.33
4493-----------------
4494
4495 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4496 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4497 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4498 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4499 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4500 default (and expected) setting.
4501
4502 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4503 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4504 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4505 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4506
4507 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4508 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4509
4510 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4511 in domain lists.
4512
4513 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4514 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4515 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4516 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4517 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4518 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4519
4520 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4521 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4522 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4523
4524 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4525 part (NOT match_host).
4526
4527 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4528
4529 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4530 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4531 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4532 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4533 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4534 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4535 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4536 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4537 the same named file.
4538
453910. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4540 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4541 when Exim is built.
4542
454311. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4544 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4545 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4546 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4547 a host name.
4548
454912. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4550 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4551 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4552
455313. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4554
455514. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4556
455715. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4558
455916. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4560 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4561
456217. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4563 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4564 before starting the TLS session.
4565
456618. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4567
456819. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4569 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4570
457120. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4572 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4573 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4574 colon in the middle).
4575
4576
4577Exim version 4.32
4578-----------------
4579
4580 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4581 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4582 multiple configurations are in use.
4583
4584 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4585 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4586 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4587 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4588 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4589 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4590
4591 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4592 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4593
4594 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4595 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4596 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4597
4598 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4599 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4600 occurs.
4601
4602 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4603 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4604
4605 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4606
4607 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4608 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4609
4610 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4611
4612 -prval:sval
4613
4614 is equivalent to
4615
4616 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4617
4618 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4619 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4620 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4621 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4622 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4623
462410. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4625 Exim's behaviour:
4626
4627 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4628 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4629 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4630 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4631 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4632 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4633
4634 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4635 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4636 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4637 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4638 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4639 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4640 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4641 string.
4642
4643 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4644 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4645 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4646 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4647 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4648
464911. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4650
465112. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4652 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4653 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4654
465513. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4656
465714. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4658 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4659 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4660 information.
4661
466215. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4663 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4664
466516. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4666 Three changes have been made:
4667
4668 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4669 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4670 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4671 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4672 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4673
4674 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4675 been restored.
4676
4677 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4678 the modified behaviour.
4679
4680
4681Exim version 4.31
4682-----------------
4683
4684 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4685 Larry Rosenman.
4686
4687 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4688 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4689
4690 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4691 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4692 try to track down a specific problem.
4693
4694 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4695 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4696 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4697
4698 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4699 warning.
4700
4701 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4702 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4703 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4704 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4705 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4706 some earlier ones do not.
4707
4708 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4709
4710 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4711 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4712 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4713 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4714 address literals are enabled, of course).
4715
4716 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4717
471810. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4719 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4720 by a command such as
4721
4722 exim -f "" ...
4723
4724 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4725
472611. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4727
472812. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4729 remained set. It is now erased.
4730
473113. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4732 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4733
473414. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4735 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4736 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4737 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4738 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4739 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4740 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4741 appropriate error code.
4742
474315. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4744 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4745 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4746 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4747 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4748 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4749
475016. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4751 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4752 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4753
475417. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4755 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4756 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4757 terminate the header.
4758
475918. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4760 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4761 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4762
476319. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4764 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4765 (4.30/29). In particular:
4766
4767 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4768 imposed.
4769
4770 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4771 to write a maildirsize file.
4772
4773 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4774 the transport, the new value overrides.
4775
4776 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4777 count.
4778
477920. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4780 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4781 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4782 space or a tab.
4783
478421. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4785 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4786 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4787 the fallback hosts.
4788
478922. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4790 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4791 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4792
479323. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4794 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4795 using a union.
4796
479724. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4798 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4799 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4800
480125. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4802
480326. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4804
480527. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4806
480728. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4808 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4809 become corrupted.
4810
481129. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4812 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4813 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4814 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4815 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4816 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4817 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4818 too great.
4819
482030. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4821 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4822 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4823 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4824 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4825 incorrectly.
4826
482731. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4828 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4829 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4830 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4831 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4832 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4833 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4834 cached value only when the same options are set.
4835
483632. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4837
483833. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4839 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4840 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4841 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4842 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4843
484434: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4845 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4846 it is clearly obsolete.
4847
484835. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4849 transport.
4850
485136. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4852 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4853 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4854 times.
4855
485637. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4857 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4858 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4859 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4860 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4861
486238. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4863 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4864 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4865 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4866
486739. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4868
4869 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4870
4871 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4872 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4873 2^31.
4874
487540. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4876 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4877 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4878 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4879 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4880 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4881 $localpart_data.
4882
488341. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4884 with the -f command-line option.
4885
488642. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4887 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4888 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4889 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4890 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4891 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4892
489343. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4894 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4895 line.
4896
489744. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4898 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4899 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4900 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4901 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4902 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4903 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4904 buffer is too small.
4905
490645. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4907 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4908
490946. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4910 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4911 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4912 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4913 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4914 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4915 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4916 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4917 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4918
491947. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4920 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4921 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4922
492348. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4924 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4925 ACL").
4926
492749. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4928 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4929 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4930 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4931 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4932
493350. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4934 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4935 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4936 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4937 is set.
4938
493951. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4940
494152. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4942
494353. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4944 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4945
494654. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4947 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4948 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4949
495055. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4951 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4952 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4953 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4954 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4955
495656. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4957 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4958 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4959 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4960 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4961 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4962 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4963
496457. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4965 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4966 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4967 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4968 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4969 the test of how many are available.
4970
497158. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4972 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4973 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4974 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4975 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4976 new message is started.
4977
497859. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4979 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4980
498160. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4982 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4983
498461. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4985 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4986 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4987 is no long logged.
4988
498962. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4990 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4991 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4992 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4993 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4994 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4995 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4996
499763. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4998 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4999 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5000 interpreted as octal.
5001
500264. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5003 setting.
5004
500565. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5006 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5007 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5008 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5009 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5010 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5011
501266. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5013 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5014 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5015 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5016
5017 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5018 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5019 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5020 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5021
5022 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5023 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5024 is a bug fix.
5025
5026 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5027 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5028
502967. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5030
503168. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5032 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5033 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5034 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5035
503669. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5037 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5038 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5039 supplied", which is not helpful.
5040
504170. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5042 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5043 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5044
504571. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5046 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5047 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5048 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5049 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5050 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5051 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5052 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5053
505472. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5055 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5056 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5057 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5058 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5059
506073. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5061 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5062 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5063 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5064 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5065 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5066
506774. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5068 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5069 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5070
507175. Added write_rejectlog option.
5072
507376. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5074 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5075 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5076 variables.
5077
507877. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5079
508078. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5081 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5082 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5083 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5084 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5085 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5086 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5087 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5088
508979. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5090 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5091 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5092 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5093 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5094
509580. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5096 Haardt.
5097
509881. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5099 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5100 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5101 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5102 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5103 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5104 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5105 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5106 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5107
5108
5109Exim version 4.30
5110-----------------
5111
5112 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5113 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5114 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5115
5116 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5117 fixed.
5118
5119 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5120 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5121 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5122
5123 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5124 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5125 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5126 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5127 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5128 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5129
5130 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5131 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5132 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5133 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5134 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5135 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5136 the Exim test suite.
5137
5138 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5139 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5140 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5141 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5142
5143 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5144 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5145 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5146 specify it in this variable.
5147
5148 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5149 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5150 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5151 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5152
5153 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5154 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5155 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5156 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5157
5158 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5159 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5160 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5161 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5162 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5163
5164 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5165
516610. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5167 they are logged.
5168
516911. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5170 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5171 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5172 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5173 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5174
517512. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5176 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5177
517813. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5179 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5180 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5181 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5182 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5183
518414. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5185 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5186
518715. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5188 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5189 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5190
519116. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5192 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5193
519417. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5195 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5196
519718. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5198 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5199 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5200
520119. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5202 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5203
520420. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5205 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5206 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5207 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5208
520921. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5210
521122. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5212 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5213 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5214 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5215
521623. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5217
521824. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5219 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5220
522125. Added .include_if_exists.
5222
522326. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5224 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5225 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5226 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5227 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5228 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5229
523027. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5231
523228. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5233 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5234 this.
5235
523629. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5237
523830. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5239 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5240
5241 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5242 550 Sender verify failed
5243
5244 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5245 the final line of the response.
5246
524731. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5248 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5249 all other user lookups.
5250
525132. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5252 delivery time.
5253
525433. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5255 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5256 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5257 result into an int without checking.
5258
525934. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5260 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5261 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5262
526335. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5264 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5265 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5266 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5267
526836. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5269 correctly.
5270
527137. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5272 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5273
527438. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5275 to the empty sender.
5276
527739. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5278 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5279 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5280 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5281 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5282 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5283 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5284 panic log.
5285
528640. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5287 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5288 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5289 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5290 used.
5291
529241. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5293 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5294
529542. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5296 timestamps.
5297
529843. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5299 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5300
530144. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5302
530345. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5304 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5305 logs.
5306
530746. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5308 as soon as it is encountered.
5309
531047. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5311
531248. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5313 rewritten to "<>".
5314
531549. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5316 recognizes a tab character.
5317
531850. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5319 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5320 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5321 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5322
532351. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5324
532552. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5326 crash.
5327
532853. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5329
533054. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5331
533255. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5333 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5334 2822.
5335
533656. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5337 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5338 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5339 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5340 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5341
534257. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5343 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5344
534558. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5346 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5347 list (.included file names were always shown).
5348
534959. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5350 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5351 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5352 root at that time.
5353
535460. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5355 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5356
535761. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5358
535962. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5360
536163. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5362
536364. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5364 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5365 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5366 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5367 failures to open the logs.
5368
536965. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5370 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5371 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5372 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5373 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5374 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5375 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5376
5377
5378Exim version 4.24
5379-----------------
5380
5381 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5382 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5383 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5384 change 4.23/1.
5385
5386 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5387 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5388 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5389
5390 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5391 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5392 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5393
5394 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5395 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5396 causing some misleading effects.
5397
5398 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5399 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5400 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5401
5402 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5403 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5404 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5405 queue-runner function directly.
5406
5407
5408Exim version 4.23
5409-----------------
5410
5411 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5412 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5413
5414 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5415 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5416 was always written to the default place.
5417
5418 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5419 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5420 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5421
5422 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5423
5424 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5425
5426 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5427 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5428 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5429
5430 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5431 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5432 must start.
5433
5434 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5435 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5436 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5437
5438 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5439 command line option is disabled.
5440
5441 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5442 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5443
5444 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5445
5446 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5447
5448 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5449 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5450
545110. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5452
545311. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5454 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5455 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5456 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5457 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5458 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5459
546012. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5461 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5462 timeout.
5463
546413. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5465 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5466
546714. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5468 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5469
547015. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5471 received was valid base64.
5472
547316. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5474 name of the variable that was being set.
5475
547617. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5477
547818. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5479 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5480 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5481 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5482 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5483 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5484
548519. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5486
548720. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5488 nor realm was specified.
5489
549021. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5491 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5492 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5493 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5494
549522. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5496 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5497 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5498
549923. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5500 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5501 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5502
550324. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5504 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5505 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5506 some systems use these upper case variants.
5507
550825. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5509 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5510 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5511 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5512
551326. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5514
551527. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5516 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5517
551828. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5519 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5520 expansion variable.
5521
552229. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5523
552430. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5525 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5526 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5527 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5528
552931. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5530 using it.
5531
553232. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5533 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5534 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5535
553633. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5537 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5538
553934. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5540 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5541 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5542 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5543
554435. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5545 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5546 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5547
554836. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5549
555037. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5551 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5552 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5553 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5554 aborted.
5555
555638. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5557 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5558 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5559
556039. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5561
556240. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5563 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5564
556541. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5566 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5567
556842. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5569 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5570 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5571 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5572 when emails are that large.
5573
5574
5575
5576Exim version 4.22
5577-----------------
5578
5579 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5580 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5581
5582 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5583 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5584 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5585
5586 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5587 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5588 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5589
5590 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5591 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5592 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5593 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5594 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5595
5596 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5597 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5598 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5599 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5600 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5601 ever.
5602
5603 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5604 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5605 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5606 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5607 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5608 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5609 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5610 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5611 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5612 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5613 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5614 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5615 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5616 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5617
5618 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5619 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5620 parameterised it.
5621
5622 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5623 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5624 error should be diagnosed.
5625
5626 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5627 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5628 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5629 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5630 appeared instead of "NULL".
5631
563210. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5633 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5634 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5635 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5636 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5637 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5638 proceeds).
5639
5640 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5641 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5642 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5643
5644
5645Exim version 4.21
5646-----------------
5647
5648 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5649 or receiver verification errors.
5650
5651 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5652 name.
5653
5654 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5655 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5656 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5657 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5658
5659 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5660 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5661 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5662 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5663 shouldn't happen again.
5664
5665 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5666 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5667 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5668
5669 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5670 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5671
5672 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5673
5674 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5675 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5676
5677 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5678 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5679 RFC.
5680
568110. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5682 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5683 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5684
568511. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5686 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5687 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5688 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5689
569012. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5691 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5692 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5693 to define what should happen).
5694
569513. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5696 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5697 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5698
569914. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5700
570115. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5702
570316. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5704 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5705
570617. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5707 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5708 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5709 structure in all cases.
5710
5711 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5712 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5713 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5714 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5715
571618. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5717 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5718 domain name.
5719
572019. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5721 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5722
572320. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5724 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5725
572621. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5727 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5728 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5729
573022. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5731 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5732 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5733
573423. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5735 the book and for uniformity.
5736
573724. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5738
573925. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5740 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5741 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5742 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5743 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5744 non-existent command as the problem.
5745
574626. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5747 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5748 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5749
575027. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5751
575228. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5753 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5754 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5755
575629. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5757 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5758 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5759 timestamps using strftime().
5760
576130. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5762 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5763
576432. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5765 transport-time rewrites.
5766
576733. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5768 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5769 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5770 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5771
577234. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5773 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5774
577535. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5776 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5777 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5778 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5779 comma and a space.
5780
578136. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5782 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5783 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5784 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5785 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5786 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5787 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5788
578937. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5790 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5791 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5792 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5793 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5794
579538. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5796 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5797 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5798 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5799 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5800 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5801 remaining text gets split now.
5802
580339. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5804 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5805 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5806 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5807
580840. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5809 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5810 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5811 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5812 $return_path.
5813
581441. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5815 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5816 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5817 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5818 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5819 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5820 passed through if needed.
5821
582242. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5823 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5824 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5825 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5826 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5827 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5828
582943. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5830 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5831 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5832 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5833 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5834
583544. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5836 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5837 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5838 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5839 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5840
584145. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5842 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5843 noticed.
5844
584546. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5846 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5847 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5848 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5849 mayhem of various kinds.
5850
585147. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5852 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5853 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5854 the right test for positive values.
5855
585648. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5857 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5858 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5859 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5860 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5861 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5862 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5863 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5864 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5865 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5866 envelope.
5867
586849. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5869 module.
5870
587150. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5872 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5873 forbidding it.
5874
587551. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5876 the existing equality matching.
5877
587852. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5879 dealing with inode numbers.
5880
588153. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5882 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5883 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5884
588554. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5886 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5887 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5888 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5889 local_scan().
5890
589155. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5892 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5893 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5894 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5895 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5896 relay addresses has also been removed.
5897
589856. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5899
590057. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5901 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5902 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5903
590458. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5905 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5906 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5907 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5908 processing applies to CR:
5909
5910 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5911 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5912
5913 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5914 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5915 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5916 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5917
591859. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5919 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5920 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5921
592260. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5923 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5924 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5925 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5926 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5927 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5928 arisen.
5929
593061. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5931 program routers.
5932
593362. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5934 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5935 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5936 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5937 adds:
5938
5939 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5940
5941 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5942
5943 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5944
594563. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5946 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5947 not considered personal.
5948
594964. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5950
595165. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5952
595366. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5954
595567. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5956 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5957 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5958 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5959 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5960 header lines, and spool format errors.
5961
596268. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5963 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5964 for more flexibility.
5965
596669. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5967 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5968 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5969
597070. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5971 Sabourenkov.
5972
597371. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5974 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5975 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5976 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5977 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5978 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5979 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5980 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5981 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5982
598372. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5984 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5985 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5986 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5987 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5988 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5989 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5990
599173. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5992 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5993 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5994
599574. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5996 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5997 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5998 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5999 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6000 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6001 instead of killing the process with assert().
6002
600375. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6004 than Unicode encoding.
6005
600676. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6007 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6008 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6009 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6010
601177. Added process_log_path.
6012
601378. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6014 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6015
601679. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6017 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6018
601980. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6020 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6021 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6022
602381. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6024 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6025 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6026 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6027 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6028 were applied:
6029
6030 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6031 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6032 as invalid.
6033
603482. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6035 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6036 they will be used during message reception.
6037
6038
6039Exim version 4.20
6040-----------------
6041
6042The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6043
6044****