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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5Exim version 4.85
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7TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
8 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
9 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
10 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
11 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
12 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
13 the script parsing/test process like normal.
14
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15TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
16 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
17 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
18 function when detected.
19
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20JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
21 cause callback expansion.
22
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23TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
24 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
25 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
26 instead of bool when processing it.
27
0f06b4f2 28JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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29 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
30
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31JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
32
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33JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
34
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35TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
36
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38Exim version 4.84
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40TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
41 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
42 return.
1f0ebb98 43
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44JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
45 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
46
47JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
48
49TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 50 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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53Exim version 4.83
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55
56TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
57
58 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
59 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
60 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
61 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
62 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
63 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
64
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65TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
66 utilities have not been installed.
67
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68JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
69 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
70
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71TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
72 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
73
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74TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
75 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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76 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
77 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 78
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79JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
80
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81TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
82 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
83
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84PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
85 not dns_use_dnssec.
86
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87JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
88
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89TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
90 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
91 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
92
8ddef691 93TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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94 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
95 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
96 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
97 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 98 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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100JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
101
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102JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
103 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
104
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105JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
106 failed delivery.
107
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108JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
109
511a6c14 110JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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111
112JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
113 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 114
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115JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
116 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
117
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118TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
119
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120JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
121
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122JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
123 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
124
125 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
126 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
127 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
128
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129TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
130 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
131 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
132 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 133
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134JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
135
8c51eead 136JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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137 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
138 lookup).
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140TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
141 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
142 Schlichting.
35aba663 143
fd3b6a4a 144JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 145 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 146
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147TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
148 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
149
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150JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
151
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152TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
153 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
154 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
155
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156JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
157 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
158
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159JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
160 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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161 hosts_request_ocsp.
162
ed3bba5f 163JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 164 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 165 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 166
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167JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
168
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169TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
170 Christian Aistleitner.
171
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172JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
173
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174TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
175 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
176
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177JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
178 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
179
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180JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
181 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
182
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183TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
184 support and error reporting did not work properly.
185
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186TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
187 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
188
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189TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
190 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
191 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
192
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193JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
194
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195PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
196 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
197 Jasper Wallace.
198
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199JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
200
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201TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
202 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
203 CVE-2014-2972
204
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208
209PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
210
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211PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
212 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
213
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214PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
215 by GnuTLS.
216
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217PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
218 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
219 routines.
220
13363eba 221PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 222
66645890 223PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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224 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
225 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
226 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
227 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 228
a3fb9793 229PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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230 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
231 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
232 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 233 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 234 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 235
d27f98fe 236TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 237
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238TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
239
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240TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
241 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
242
ae0e32ee 243TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 244 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 245 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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247TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 248
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249TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
250
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251TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
252 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
253
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254JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
255
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256JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
257
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258PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
259
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260NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
261 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 262
585121e2 263JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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265PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
266 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
267 function.
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269PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
270 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
271
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272JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
273 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
274 "acl = name arg..."
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276JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
277
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278JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
279
ea722490 280JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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281 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
282
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283JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
284 Bugzilla 884.
285
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286JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
287 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
288
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289JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
290 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
291
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292PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
293 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 294 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
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296JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
297 authenticators.
298
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299JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
300 for control.
301
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302PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
303
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304PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
305 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
306 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
307 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
308
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309TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
310
311 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
312 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
313 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
314 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
315 the retry rules.
316
317 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
318 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
319 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
320
321 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
322 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
323 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
324 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
325
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326 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
327 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
328 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
329 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
330 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
331 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
332 delivery, as in LMTP.
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334 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
335 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
336
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337TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
338
339 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
340
341 Resent-From: f
342
343 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
344 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
345 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
346 username as equal to the username.
347
348 This change corrects that bug.
349
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350GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
351 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
352 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
353
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354TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
355
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356PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
357 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
358 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
359 NULL dereference and crash.
360
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361JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
362
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363PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
364 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
365 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
366
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367SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
368
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369JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
370 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
371 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
372 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
373 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
374 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
375 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
376 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
377 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
378 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
379 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
380
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381PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
382 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
383
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384PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
385 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
386 Bugzilla 880.
387
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388PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
389 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
390 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
391 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
392 an empty string is now equivalent.
393
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394PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
395 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
396 not performing validation itself.
397
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398PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
399 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
400
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401JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
402 Bugzilla 321, 823.
403
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404TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
405
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406PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
407 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
408 other false fix of the same issue.
409 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
410 Bugzilla 1363.
411
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412PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
413 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
414
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415PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
416 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
417 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
418
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419PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
420 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
421 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
422
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423TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
424
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425JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
426
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427TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
428 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
429
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430TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
431 Alexander Miroch.
432
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433TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
434 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
435 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
436 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
437 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 438
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439TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
440 the src/util/ subdirectory.
441
581d7bee 442TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 443 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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444 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
445
446TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
447 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
448 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
449 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
450
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451TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
452
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453TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
454 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
455 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 456
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457TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
458
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459TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
460 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
461 interaction.
462
463TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
464 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
465
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466TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
467 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
468
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470Exim version 4.80.1
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472
473PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
474 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 475 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
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480
481PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
482 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
483 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
484
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485NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
486
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487NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
488 improved.
489
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490NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
491
c1e794ba 492PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 493
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494PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
495
496PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
497 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
498
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499PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
500 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
501
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502PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
503 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
504
f1e05cc7 505PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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506 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
507 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 508
4c287009
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509PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
510
b98bb9ac
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511PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
512 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
513
4a6a987a
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514PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
515
c45dd180 516PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 517
7db8d074
PP
518PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
519 non-compliant senders.
520 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
521
eae0036b 522NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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523 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
524 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
525
dec5017e
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526PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
527 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
528 in spool file corruption.
529
c80c5570
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530PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
531 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
532 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
533 "Got SSL error 2".
534
076b11e2
PP
535TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
536 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
537 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
538
5407bfff
JH
539JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
540 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
541
9e45c72b
PP
542JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
543
e74376d8
PP
544PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
545 diagnostics.
546 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
547
da3ad30d
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548PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
549 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
550 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
551
7be682ca
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552PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
553 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
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554 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
555 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 556
ef840681
PP
557PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
558 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
559
5bfb4cdf
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560PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
561 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
562 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
563 resolver implementation change.
564
c6e95d22
PP
565PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
566 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
567
9cbad13b
PP
568PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
569
9ee44efb
PP
570PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
571
6a6084f8
PP
572PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
573 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
574
12dd53c7
PP
575PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
576 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
577
9e45c72b 578JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
579 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
580
17c76198
PP
581PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
582 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
583 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
584 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 585 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 586
53947857 587PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 588
eae0036b 589PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
590 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
591 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 592
9e45c72b 593JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 594
7390e768
PP
595PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
596 read-only, out of scope).
597 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
598
08488c86
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599PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
600 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
601 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
602 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
603
6475bd82
PP
604PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
605
81f91683
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606PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
607 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
608 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
609 real issues in debug logging.
610
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PP
611PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
612 assignment on my part. Fixed.
613
3375e053
PP
614PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
615 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
616 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
617
618PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
619 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
620 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
621 problems.
3375e053 622
9d26b8c0
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623PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
624 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
625
57eb9e91 626PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
627 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
628 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
629 needs to override this, it can.
630
16880d1a
PP
631PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
632 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
633 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
634
a799883d
PP
635PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
636 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
637 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
638 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
639
3ecab157 640PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 641
0599f9cf 642
867fcbf5
PP
643Exim version 4.77
644-----------------
645
646PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
647 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
648
f1a29782
TF
649TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
650
ab42bd23
TK
651TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
652 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 653
0ca0cf52
TF
654TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
655 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
656
921b12ca
TF
657TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
658 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
659 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
660
661 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
662 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
663 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
664 not safe for signals.
665
666 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
667 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
668 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
669 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
670 exiwhat.
671
c99ce5c9
TF
672TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
673
674 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
675 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
676 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
677 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
678 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
679
680 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
681 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
682 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
683 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
684 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
685 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
686
687 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
688 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
689 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
690 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
691
692 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
693 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
694 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
695 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
696
697 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
698 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
699 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
700 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
701 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
702 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
703 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
704 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
705 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
706
707 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
708 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
709 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
710 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
711
712 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
713 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
714 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
715 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
716 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
717 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
718 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
719 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
720 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
721 details in the main documentation.
722
3634fc25
TF
723TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
724
792e8a19
TF
725TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
726
5901f0ab
TF
727TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
728 repository when doing development or release builds.
729
7f2a2a43
PP
730PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
731 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 732
061b7ebd
PP
733PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
734 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
735 Bugzilla 97.
736
e12f8c32
PP
737PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
738
9e949f00 739PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
740 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
741
742PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
743 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 744
555ae6af 745PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
746 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
747
748PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
749 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 750
6f7fe114
PP
751PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
752 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
753
c566dd90
PP
754PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
755 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
756 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
757 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 758
d6cc7c78 759PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
760 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
761 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
762
0d0e4455
PP
763PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
764
3399bb60 765PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
766
767PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
768 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
769
0ca0cf52 770
10906672
PP
771Exim version 4.76
772-----------------
773
774PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
775
754a0503
PP
776PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
777 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
778
c0c7b2da
PP
779PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
780
e97d1f08
PP
781PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
782
084c1d8c
PP
783PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
784 Bugzilla 1098.
785
4e7ee012
PP
786PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
787 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 788
c8d52a00
PP
789TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
790 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
791
54e7ce4a
PP
792PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
793 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
794
5ee6f336
PP
795PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
796 Bugzilla 1104.
797
c8d52a00 798TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
799 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
800
801TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
802 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
803 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
804 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
805
806PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
807 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 808
10906672 809
aa097c4c
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810Exim version 4.75
811-----------------
812
4c9ef03a 813NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
814 Bugzilla 1073
815
7f3d9eff
TF
816TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
817 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
818 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
819
159f52d2
TF
820TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
821 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
822
0cc9542a
PP
823PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
824 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
825 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
826
f7274286
PP
827PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
828 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
829
7b797365
PP
830PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
831 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
832
caacae52
NM
833NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
834 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
835
09dcaba9
NM
836NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
837 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
838
bc19a55b
PP
839PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
840 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 841
bd4c9759
NM
842NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
843 Fixes bug 943.
844
b72aab72
PP
845PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
846 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
847
2fe76745
PP
848PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
849 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
850
76aa570c
PP
851PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
852 SQL string expansion failure details.
853 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
854
f1e5fef5
PP
855PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
856 Patch from Simon Arlott.
857
4d805ee9
PP
858PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
859 extern declarations in function scope.
860 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
861
cd59ab18
PP
862PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
863 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
864 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
865 a kernel bug).
866
332f5cf3
PP
867PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
868 Patch from Mark Zealey.
869
29cfeb94
PP
870PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
871 Patch from Mark Zealey.
872
660242ad
PP
873PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
874 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
875
bc4bc4c5
PP
876PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
877 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
878
2e64baa9
NM
879NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
880 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
881 Dennis Davis.
882
bddd7526
PP
883PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
884
6bac1a9a
PP
885PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
886
552193f0
NM
887NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
888 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 889
1b587e48
TF
890TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
891 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
892
aa097c4c 893
8c07b69f
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894Exim version 4.74
895-----------------
896
897TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
898 consequences so log it to the panic log.
899
c0ea85ab
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900TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
901 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
902
0761d44e
TF
903TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
904
0a349494
PP
905DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
906 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
907 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
908
909PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
910 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
911 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
912
fea24b2e
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913PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
914 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
915 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
916 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
917
6545de78
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918PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
919 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
920 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
921 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
922
1670ef10
PP
923PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
924 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
925 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
926 arbitrary files.
927
c0886197
PP
928PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
929 (Wolfgang Breyha)
930
b7487bce
PP
931PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
932 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
933 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
934 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
935 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
936
8c07b69f 937
97fd1e48 938Exim version 4.73
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PP
940
941PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
942 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
943 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
944
6901c596
PP
945PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
946 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
947
a8c8d6b5
JJ
948JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
949
77bb000f
PP
950PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
951
a29e5231
PP
952PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
953
ec5a0394 954PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 955
55c75993
PP
956PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
957
453a6645 958PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
959 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
960 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
961 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
962
8544e77a
PP
963PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
964 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
965 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
966 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
967 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 968
83e029d5
PP
969PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
970
ed7f7860
PP
971PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
972
7d9f747b
PP
973PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
974
4b2241d2
PP
975PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
976
10385c15
PP
977PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
978
dbc4b90d
PP
979PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
980
532be449
PP
981PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
982
6a8de854 983PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
984 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
985 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 986
5dc43717
JJ
987JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
988
989JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
990 "exim" to be used
55c75993 991
3346ab01
PP
992PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
993 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
994
491fab4c
PP
995PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
996 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
997 Notification from John Horne.
998
13eb9497
PP
999PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1000 compatible.
1001
1002PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1003 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1004 it normally works.
1005
7f36d675
DW
1006DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1007 access.
1008
c1d94452
DW
1009DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1010 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1011 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1012
e2f5dc15
DW
1013DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1014 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1015 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1016 configuration file.
1017
cd25e41d
DW
1018DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1019 option (effectively making it always true).
1020
261dc43e
DW
1021DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1022 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1023
fa32850b
DW
1024DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1025 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1026
79d4bc3d
PP
1027PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1028 run-time user, instead of root.
1029
43236f35 1030PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1031 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1032
fb08281f
DW
1033DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1034 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1035 arguments.
3346ab01 1036
74935b98
DW
1037DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1038 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1039 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1040
90b6341f
DW
1041DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1042
57730b52
ML
1043NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1044
66581d1e 1045
465e92cf
JJ
1046Exim version 4.72
1047-----------------
1048
453a6645
PP
1049JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1050 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1051 typos
465e92cf 1052
453a6645
PP
1053JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1054 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1055 (Finput)
edae0343 1056
9bd3e22c
NM
1057NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1058 Patch from Alain Williams
1059
bb576ff7
NM
1060NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1061
5a1a5845
NM
1062NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1063 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1064
981a9fad
NM
1065NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1066 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1067
7fc497ee
NM
1068NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1069
1a41defa
JJ
1070JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1071
a466095c 1072NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1073 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1074
94a6bd0b
NM
1075TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1076
1077TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1078
1079MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1080 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1081 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1082
c1b141a8
NM
1083NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1084 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1085
b26eacf1 1086NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1087 Patch by Simon Arlott
1088
179c5980 1089PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1090 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1091
9bd3e22c 1092
7c6d71af
NM
1093Exim version 4.71
1094-----------------
1095
7d9f747b 1096TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1097
f013fb92
NM
1098NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1099
0eb8eedd
NM
1100NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1101
663ee6d9
NM
1102NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1103
177ebd9b
NM
1104NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1105
7c6d71af 1106
210f147e
NM
1107Exim version 4.70
1108-----------------
1109
cdd3bb85 1110TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1111 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1112
1113TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1114 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1115 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1116
1117TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1118 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1119 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1120
1121TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1122 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1123
210f147e
NM
1124NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1125 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1126 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1127 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1128
deafd5b3
NM
1129NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1130 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1131 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1132
089793a4
TF
1133TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1134
5f16ca82
TF
1135TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1136
dae9d94e 1137NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1138 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1139
7d9f747b 1140NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1141
06864c44
TF
1142TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1143 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1144 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1145 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1146
65a7d8c3 1147NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1148 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1149
23510047 1150TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1151
7d9f747b 1152NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1153
7d8eec3a 1154NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1155 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1156
89dec7b6
TF
1157TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1158 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1159
a99de90c
TF
1160TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1161 that they are available at delivery time.
1162
e2803e40
TF
1163TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1164
7199e1ee
TF
1165TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1166 incoming_port log selectors.
1167
e276e04b
TF
1168TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1169 setting expands to an empty string.
1170
ce552449 1171NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1172 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1173
e765a0f1 1174NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1175 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1176
4f054c63 1177NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1178 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1179
7d9f747b
PP
1180NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1181 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1182
7d9f747b
PP
1183NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1184 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1185
b52bc06e 1186NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1187 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1188
447de4b0
NM
1189NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1190
4c69d561 1191NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1192 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1193
d5c39246 1194NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1195 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1196
0b23848a
TK
1197TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1198
8f3414a1 1199NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1200 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1201
fb6f955d
NM
1202NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1203
1204NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1205
7d9f747b
PP
1206NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1207 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1208
7d9f747b
PP
1209NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1210 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1211
7d9f747b
PP
1212NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1213 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1214
7d9f747b
PP
1215NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1216 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1217
7d9f747b
PP
1218NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1219 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1220
7d9f747b
PP
1221NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1222 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1223
7d9f747b
PP
1224NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1225 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1226
7d9f747b 1227NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1228 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1229
7d9f747b 1230NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1231
7d9f747b
PP
1232NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1233 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1234
7d9f747b 1235NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1236
7d9f747b 1237NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1238
7d9f747b 1239NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1240
7d9f747b 1241NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1242
17792b53 1243NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1244 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1245
7d9f747b
PP
1246NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1247 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1248
91576cec 1249NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1250 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1251
7d9f747b
PP
1252NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1253 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1254
7d9f747b 1255NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1256
7d9f747b 1257NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1258
7d9f747b 1259NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1260
7d9f747b 1261NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1262
deafd5b3 1263
47db1125
NM
1264Exim version 4.69
1265-----------------
1266
4b3504d0
TK
1267TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1268 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1269 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1270
1271 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1272 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1273 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1274 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1275 build errors in sieve.c.
1276
81ea09ca
NM
1277NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1278 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1279 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1280
f13cddcb
SC
1281SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1282
7d9f747b 1283NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1284
7d9f747b 1285NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1286
7d9f747b 1287NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1288
1289
eb4c0de6
PH
1290Exim version 4.68
1291-----------------
1292
1293PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1294
6a3bceb1
PH
1295PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1296 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1297 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1298 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1299 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1300 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1301 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1302 for iplsearch lookups.
1303
1304 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1305 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1306 previously such lookups could never work.
1307
1308 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1309 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1310 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1311
2e30fa9d
TK
1312TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1313 version.
1314
0806a9c5
MH
1315MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1316 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1317 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1318 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1319 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1320 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1321
ae276964
TK
1322TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1323 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1324
0f2cbd1b
MH
1325MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1326 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1327 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1328 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1329 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1330 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1331
2b85bce7
PH
1332PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1333 local_scan API.
1334
93655c46
PH
1335PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1336
6c512171
PH
1337PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1338 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1339 encrypted.
1340
1341PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1342 by clients under certain conditions.
1343
aa6dc513
PH
1344PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1345 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1346
a96603a0
PH
1347PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1348
8f240103
PH
1349PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1350 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1351
1352PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1353
d677b2f2
PH
1354PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1355
d52120f2
PH
1356PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1357
64f2600a
PH
1358PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1359 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1360
8669f003
PH
1361PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1362
a4dc33a8
PH
1363PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1364 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1365
d6a60c0f
PH
1366PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1367
8f128379
PH
1368PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1369
8932dffe
PH
1370PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1371 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1372 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1373 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1374
ddea74fa 1375PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1376 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1377 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1378
ddea74fa 1379PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1380 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1381
ddea74fa
PH
1382PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1383
ce9f225c
PH
1384PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1385
19897d52
PH
1386PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1387
bc64a74d
PH
1388PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1389 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1390 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1391
eb4c0de6 1392
b4ed4da0
PH
1393Exim version 4.67
1394-----------------
1395
22ad45c9
MH
1396MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1397 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1398 Jan Srzednicki.
1399
b4ed4da0
PH
1400PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1401 issue a MAIL command.
1402
431b7361
PH
1403PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1404
1405 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1406
1407 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1408 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1409 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1410 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1411 item. This has been fixed.
1412
1413PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1414 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1415
83da1223
PH
1416PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1417 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1418
54fc8428
PH
1419PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1420 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1421 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1422
34c5e8dd
SC
1423SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1424
bbe15da8
PH
1425PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1426 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1427 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1428 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1429 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1430
0e8a9471
MH
1431MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1432 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1433 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1434
f0872424
PH
1435PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1436 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1437 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1438 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1439
b01dd148
PH
1440PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1441
6bf342e1
PH
1442PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1443
273f34d0
PH
1444PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1445 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1446 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1447 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1448 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1449
cf8b11a5
PH
1450PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1451
41c7c167
PH
1452PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1453 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1454 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1455 values).
1456
9c57cbc0
PH
1457PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1458
f3f065bb
PH
1459PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1460
047bdd8c
PH
1461PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1462
0ce9abe6
PH
1463PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1464
0e22dfd1
PH
1465PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1466
4c590bd1
PH
1467PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1468 no_callout_flush is set.
1469
09945f1e
PH
1470PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1471 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1472 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1473 fixed.
1474
c51b8e75
PH
1475PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1476
e28326d8
PH
1477PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1478 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1479 other ACL rejections are.
1480
75b1493f
PH
1481PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1482 with slight modification.
1483
7c5214ec
PH
1484PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1485 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1486
4311097e
PH
1487PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1488 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1489 connection.
1490
29f89cad
PH
1491PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1492 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1493
5e687460
SC
1494SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1495
c3611384
PH
1496PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1497 expansion side effects.
1498
5a11a7b4
PH
1499PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1500 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1501 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1502 be the same.
1503
0e20aff9
MH
1504MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1505 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1506 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1507
ca86f471
PH
1508PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1509 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1510 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1511 were accidentally chopped off.
1512
a14e5636
PH
1513PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1514 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1515 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1516 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1517 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1518 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1519 pipelining has not been advertised.
1520
ec95d1a6
PH
1521PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1522
42855d71
PH
1523PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1524 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1525 This has been fixed.
1526
57c2c631
PH
1527PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1528 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1529 reported on Solaris.
1530
58c01c94
PH
1531PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1532 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1533 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1534 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1535 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1536 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1537 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1538
dee5a20a
PH
1539PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1540 cpus.
1541
d2ee6114
PH
1542PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1543
b2d5182b
PH
1544PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1545
79749a79
PH
1546PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1547 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1548 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1549 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1550 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1551 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1552
c456d9bb
PH
1553PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1554 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1555 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1556 host_all_ignored option.
1557
cd9868ec
PH
1558PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1559 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1560 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1561 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1562 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1563 is what is supposed to happen).
1564
ebeaf996
PH
1565PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1566 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1567 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1568 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1569 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1570 uses the Exim user.
1571
2679d413
PH
1572PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1573 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1574 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1575 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1576 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1577 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1578 users.
1579
84024b72
PH
1580PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1581
8005d38e
SC
1582SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1583 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1584 (Jez Hancock).
1585 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1586 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1587
3298c6c6
SC
1588SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1589
a43a27c5
PH
1590PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1591
58eb016e 1592PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1593 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1594 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1595 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1596 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1597 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1598 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1599 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1600 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1601 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1602 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1603
b43a74ea
PH
1604PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1605 advertised in response to EHLO.
1606
b4ed4da0 1607
5dd1517f
PH
1608Exim version 4.66
1609-----------------
1610
1611PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1612 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1613
1614 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1615 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1616
1617 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1618 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1619 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1620
1621 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1622 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1623 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1624 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1625 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1626
1627
93cfa765
TK
1628Exim version 4.65
1629-----------------
1630
1631TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1632 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1633 versions. (#438)
1634
d6066548
MH
1635MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1636 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1637 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1638
4362ff0d
PH
1639PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1640 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1641 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1642 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1643 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1644 rather than extend the field.
1645
93cfa765 1646
944e9e9c
TF
1647Exim version 4.64
1648-----------------
aa41d2de 1649
21d74bd9
TK
1650TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1651 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1652 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1653 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1654 these files.
1655
1656TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1657 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1658 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1659
1660TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1661 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1662 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1663
1664TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1665 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1666 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1667 in the field name.
1668
2b1c6e3a
PH
1669PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1670 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1671 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1672 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1673 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1674 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1675 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1676 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1677 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1678 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1679 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1680
1f872c80
PH
1681PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1682 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1683
1684PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1685 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1686 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1687 ignores EPIPE as well.
1688
d203e649
PH
1689PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1690 (quoted-printable decoding).
1691
cc2ed8f7 1692PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1693 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1694
ddfcd446
PH
1695PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1696
d45b1de8
PH
1697PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1698
1699PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1700
38a0a95f 1701PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1702 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1703
a2405d83
JJ
1704JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1705 in 4.64-PH/09.
1706
1707JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1708 miscellaneous code fixes
1709
6ea85e9a
PH
1710PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1711 rejections.
1712
26da7e20
PH
1713PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1714 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1715 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1716 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1717 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1718 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1719 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1720 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1721
14aa5a05 1722PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1723 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1724 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1725 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1726 function.
1727 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1728 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1729 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1730 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1731 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1732 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1733 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1734 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1735 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1736
ff75a1f7
PH
1737PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1738 decoding.
1739
e6f6568e
PH
1740PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1741 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1742 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1743 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1744 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1745 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1746 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1747 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1748
d6f6e0dc
PH
1749PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1750 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1751 list.
1752
322050c2
PH
1753PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1754 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1755 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1756 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1757 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1758 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1759 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1760 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1761 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1762 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1763 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1764 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1765 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1766
08955dd3
PH
1767PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1768 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1769 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1770 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1771 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1772 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1773 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1774
1eccaa59
PH
1775PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1776 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1777 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1778 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1779 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1780 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1781 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1782 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1783 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1784 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1785
602e59e5
PH
1786PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1787 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1788 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1789 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1790 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1791
411ef850
PH
1792PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1793 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1794 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1795 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1796 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1797 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1798 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1799
7befa435
PH
1800PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1801 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1802 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1803 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1804 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1805 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1806 been verified.
1807
48da4259 1808PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1809 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1810 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1811 and authorization.)
1812
48da4259
PH
1813PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1814 if any retry times were supplied.
1815
d1d5595c
PH
1816PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1817 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1818 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1819
0ef732d9
PH
1820PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1821
328895cc
PH
1822PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1823
fd700877
PH
1824PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1825 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1826 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1827 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1828 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1829 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1830
8dce1a6f
PH
1831PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1832 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1833
17af4a17
PH
1834PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1835 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1836 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1837
1838PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1839 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1840 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1841 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1842 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1843 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1844 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1845 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1846 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1847
1848 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1849 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1850 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1851 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1852 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1853 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1854 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1855 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1856 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1857
1858 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1859 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1860 hammering the server.
1861
c1114884
PH
1862PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1863 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1864
7a0743eb
PH
1865PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1866
0d85fa3f
PH
1867PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1868 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1869 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1870
1bf43b78
PH
1871PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1872 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1873 one case where this was not true.
1874
520de300
PH
1875PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1876 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1877 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1878 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1879 fails.
1880
48c7f9e2
PH
1881PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1882 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1883 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1884 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1885 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1886 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1887 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1888 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1889 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1890 smtp transport.
1891
99ea1c86
PH
1892PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1893 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1894 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1895 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1896
a2042e78
PH
1897PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1898 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1899
4fbcfc2e
PH
1900PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1901 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1902 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1903
aa41d2de
PH
1904PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1905
af561417
PH
1906PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1907
3cc66b45
PH
1908PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1909
194cc0e4
PH
1910PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1911 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1912 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1913 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1914
a401ddaa
PH
1915PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1916 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1917
4e88a19f
PH
1918PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1919 be meaningful with "accept".
1920
d7d7b289
SC
1921SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1922 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1923
1924SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1925 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1926 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1927
1928SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1929 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1930 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1931 there is data to show.
1932 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1933
1934SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1935 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1936 as well as the number of messages.
1937
1938SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1939 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1940 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1941
1942SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1943 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1944 have a flag are now skipped.
1945
1946SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1947 Added the -emptyok flag.
1948
1949SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1950 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1951
0ea2a468
JJ
1952JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1953 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1954 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1955
1956JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1957 match 4.64-PH/13
1958
1959JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1960 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1961
1962JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1963
1964JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1965 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1966
8a10f5a4
PH
1967PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1968
30e18802
PH
1969PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1970 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1971 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1972 contravention of the specifications.
1973
55728a4f
PH
1974PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1975 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1976 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1977
d7837193
PH
1978PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1979 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1980 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1981
87054a31
PH
1982PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1983
ea2c01d2
MH
1984MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1985 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1986 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1987 some point in the past.
1988
e4fa6968
PH
1989PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1990 transport during callout processing was broken.
1991
56f5d9bd
PH
1992PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1993 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1994
922e1c28
PH
1995PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1996 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1997
21eb6e72
PH
1998PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1999 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2000
a0540757
PH
2001PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2002
944e9e9c 2003
478be7b0
SC
2004Exim version 4.63
2005-----------------
2006
2007SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2008 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2009
2010SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2011 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2012 there is data to show.
2013 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2014
2015SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2016 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2017
2b965a65
TF
2018TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2019 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2020
45b91596
PH
2021TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2022 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2023
c59f5781
TF
2024TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2025 submissions from trusted users.
2026
90fc3069
TF
2027TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2028 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2029
6083aca0
TF
2030TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2031 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2032 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2033 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2034 there is now a framework to start from.
2035
765b530f
PH
2036PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2037 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2038 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2039
4e167a8c
PH
2040PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2041
4608d683
PH
2042PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2043
b8dc3e4a
PH
2044PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2045
5418e93b
PH
2046PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2047 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2048 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2049
b4a9bda2
PH
2050PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2051 libradius.
2052
45b91596
PH
2053PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2054 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2055 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2056
5547e2c5
PH
2057PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2058 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2059 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2060 its arguments.
2061
dbcef0ea
PH
2062PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2063 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2064 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2065 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2066 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2067
25257489
PH
2068PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2069 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2070
c816d124
PH
2071PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2072
a9ccd69a
PH
2073PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2074 operations in malware.c.
2075
75fa1910
PH
2076PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2077 signatures.
2078
a7d7aa58
PH
2079PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2080 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2081 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2082 all.
2083
42119b09
PH
2084PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2085 statements to "add_header".
2086
41609df5
PH
2087PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2088 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2089
a5bd321b
PH
2090PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2091 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2092 latter.
2093
e85a7ad5 2094PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2095 so that it is now:
2096
e85a7ad5
PH
2097 ${if or { \
2098 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2099 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2100 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2101 }{no}{yes}}
2102
e85a7ad5
PH
2103 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2104 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2105
d8fe1c03
PH
2106PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2107 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2108
16282d2b
PH
2109PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2110 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2111 any possible encoding problems.
2112
35d40a98
PH
2113PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2114 but not after initializing Perl.
2115
034d99ab
PH
2116PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2117 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2118 apparently, which is not desirable.
2119
6ec97b1b
PH
2120PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2121 queries.
2122
e22ca4ac
JJ
2123JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2124 --not options
2125
2126JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2127
33d73e3b
PH
2128PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2129 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2130 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2131 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2132
9ecb03f3
PH
2133PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2134 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2135 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2136
084efe8d
PH
2137PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2138 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2139 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2140 0.12.
2141
366fc9f0
PH
2142PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2143 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2144 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2145 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2146 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2147
c59f5781 2148
c887c79e
TF
2149Exim version 4.62
2150-----------------
2151
2152TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2153 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2154
1cce3af8
PH
2155PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2156 patch).
2157
afb3eaaf
PH
2158PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2159 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2160 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2161 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2162 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2163 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2164 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2165 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2166 451 error is used.
2167
e173618b
PH
2168PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2169
dd16e114
PH
2170PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2171 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2172 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2173
f7fd3850
PH
2174PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2175 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2176 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2177 odd errors.
2178
d87df92c
PH
2179PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2180 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2181
7e9f683d
PH
2182PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2183 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2184 option (which defaults to 0600).
2185
bfad5236
PH
2186PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2187
01c490df
PH
2188PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2189 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2190 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2191 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2192 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2193 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2194 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2195
d6629cdc
PH
2196PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2197
1cce3af8 2198
214e2000
PH
2199Exim version 4.61
2200-----------------
2201
2202PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2203 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2204 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2205 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2206 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2207 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2208 addresses as local.
2209
f9daeae0
PH
2210PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2211 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2212
7e66e54d
PH
2213PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2214
c8ea1597
PH
2215PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2216 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2217 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2218 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2219 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2220 grumble.
2221
911f6fde
PH
2222PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2223 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2224
47ca6d6c
PH
2225PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2226 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2227 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2228 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2229 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2230
ed0e9820
PH
2231PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2232 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2233 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2234 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2235
eff37e47
PH
2236PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2237 be the same on different OS.
2238
1921d2ea
PH
2239PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2240 testing.
2241
b3f69ca8
JJ
2242JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2243 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2244
2245JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2246 in 4.61-PH/06
2247
424a1c63
PH
2248PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2249 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2250 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2251 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2252 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2253 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2254 bounce message.
2255
7a100415
PH
2256PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2257 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2258 when Exim was called.
2259
19b9dc85
PH
2260PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2261 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2262
309bd837
PH
2263PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2264 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2265 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2266 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2267
59e82a2a
PH
2268PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2269 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2270 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2271 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2272 changes:
2273
2274 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2275 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2276 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2277
2278 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2279 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2280 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2281
9edc04ce
PH
2282PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2283 feature).
2284
1349e1e5
PH
2285PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2286 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2287 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2288 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2289 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2290 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2291 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2292 values from the SRV records were lost.
2293
ea49d0e1
PH
2294PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2295 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2296 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2297
064a94c9
PH
2298PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2299 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2300 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2301
727071f8
PH
2302PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2303 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2304 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2305 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2306 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2307 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2308 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2309 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2310 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2311 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2312
f78eb7c6
PH
2313PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2314 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2315 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2316
21c28500
PH
2317PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2318 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2319
2320PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2321 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2322 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2323 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2324 is given.
2325
1688f43b
PH
2326PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2327 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2328 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2329
2330PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2331 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2332 PH/23 above applies.
2333
9675b384
PH
2334PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2335 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2336 (for which there is an explicit test).
2337
6a3f1455
PH
2338PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2339
dac79d3e
PH
2340PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2341 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2342 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2343 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2344 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2345
5977a0b3
PH
2346PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2347 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2348 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2349 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2350
c91535f3
PH
2351PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2352 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2353 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2354
0d46a8c8
PH
2355PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2356
278c6e6c
PH
2357PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2358
2cbb4081
PH
2359PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2360 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2361 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2362
3eef829e
PH
2363PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2364 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2365 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2366 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2367 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2368
1ab95fa6
PH
2369PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2370 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2371 the message gets confusing).
2372
230205fc
PH
2373PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2374 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2375 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2376 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2377
75e0e026
PH
2378PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2379 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2380 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2381 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2382 same order.
2383
2384PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2385 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2386 the different processes.
2387
145396a6
PH
2388PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2389
3cd34f13
PH
2390PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2391
11121d3d
JJ
2392JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2393 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2394
2395JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2396 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2397
2398JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2399 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2400 messages matching specified criteria.
2401
8def5aaf
PH
2402PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2403
929ba01c
PH
2404PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2405 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2406
2632889e
PH
2407PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2408 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2409 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2410 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2411 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2412 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2413 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2414 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2415 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2416 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2417
944a9c55
PH
2418PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2419 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2420 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2421
4a23603b
PH
2422PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2423
4730f942
PH
2424PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2425 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2426 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2427 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2428 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2429 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2430 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2431 the variable.
2432
30dba1e6
PH
2433PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2434 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2435
382afc6b
PH
2436PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2437
a86229cf
PH
2438PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2439
50c99ba6
PH
2440PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2441
d35e429d
PH
2442PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2443 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2444 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2445 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2446 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2447 size of the count of files.
2448
f90d018c
PH
2449PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2450
75def545
PH
2451PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2452 used in LMTP mode:
2453
2454 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2455 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2456 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2457 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2458
2459 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2460 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2461 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2462
2463PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2464 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2465 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2466 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2467 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2468
c46782ef
PH
2469PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2470 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2471
71fafd95
PH
2472PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2473 will now be deprecated.
2474
2c5db4fd
PH
2475PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2476
9cf6b11a
JJ
2477JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2478 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2479 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2480
2481JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2482 with very large, slow to parse queues
2483
2484JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2485
2486JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2487
898d150f
PH
2488PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2489 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2490 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2491 SMTP output lines.
2492
46218253
PH
2493PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2494 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2495 Sieve code now uses this.
2496
e97957bc
PH
2497PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2498 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2499
81e509d7
PH
2500PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2501 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2502
3d240ff7
PH
2503PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2504
b37c4101
PH
2505PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2506 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2507 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2508 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2509 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2510
79378e0f
PH
2511PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2512 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2513 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2514 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2515
e49c7bb4
PH
2516PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2517
d114ec46
PH
2518PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2519
f3d7df6c
PH
2520PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2521 is preferred over IPv4.
2522
715ab376
PH
2523PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2524 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2525 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2526 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2527 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2528 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2529 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2530
6b31b150
PH
2531PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2532 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2533 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2534
2535PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2536
d515a917
PH
2537PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2538 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2539 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2540 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2541 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2542 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2543 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2544 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2545 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2546 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2547 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2548
9b8fadde
PH
2549PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2550 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2551 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2552
214e2000 2553
5de37277
PH
2554Exim version 4.60
2555-----------------
2556
cc38ddbf
PH
2557PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2558
2559 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2560 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2561
2562 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2563 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2564 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2565
72fdd6ae
PH
2566PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2567
2568 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2569 not a single digit.
2570
2571 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2572 string.
2573
2574 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2575 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2576 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2577 silly things.
2578
2579 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2580 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2581
2582 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2583 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2584
cb741023
PH
2585PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2586 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2587 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2588
f174f16e
PH
2589PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2590 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2591
c25242d7
PH
2592PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2593 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2594
2595 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2596
2597 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2598 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2599 this:
2600
2601 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2602
82c19f95
PH
2603PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2604 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2605 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2606 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2607 identical. For example:
2608
2609 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2610
2611 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2612 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2613 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2614
d7ffbc12
PH
2615PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2616 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2617 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2618 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2619
9f526266
PH
2620PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2621 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2622 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2623 message.
2624
87fcc8b9
PH
2625PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2626
2627 o fixes some comments
2628 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2629 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2630 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2631 and documents the missing references header update
2632
2633 and most important:
2634
2635 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2636 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2637 result)
2638
456682f5
PH
2639PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2640 Electronic Mail") by including:
2641
2642 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2643
2644 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2645 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2646 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2647 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2648 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2649
2650 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2651
2652 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2653
2654 The auto-replied keyword:
2655
2656 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2657 message by an automatic process,
2658
2659 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2660
2661 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2662 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2663
2664 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2665 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2666 other messages.
2667
3e46c1aa
PH
2668PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2669 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2670
49826d12
PH
2671PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2672
eba0c039
PH
2673PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2674 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2675 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2676
a0d6ba8a
PH
2677PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2678 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2679 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2680
f0917727
PH
2681PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2682 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2683 and treats the condition as false.
2684
096fee00
PH
2685PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2686
024bd3c2
PH
2687PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2688 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2689 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2690 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2691 not changing the active code.
2692
2693 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2694 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2695
2696 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2697 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2698
df199fec
PH
2699PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2700 (Bugzilla #53).
2701
d27f1df3
PH
2702PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2703 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2704 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2705 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2706 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2707 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2708 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2709 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2710 the text comparison.
2711
96776534
PH
2712PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2713 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2714 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2715 The same fix has been applied.
2716
5de37277 2717
9a799bc0
PH
2718Exim version 4.54
2719-----------------
2720
2721PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2722 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2723 It now does.
2724
99a4b039
PH
2725PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2726 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2727
2728PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2729
4b233853
PH
2730PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2731 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2732 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2733 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2734 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2735
8857ccfd
PH
2736TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2737 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2738 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2739 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2740 or /domain=).
2741
433a2980
PH
2742PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2743 testing suite.
2744
3e46c1aa 2745
9a799bc0 2746
e3a311ba
TK
2747Exim version 4.53
2748-----------------
2749
2750TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2751 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2752
13b685f9
PH
2753PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2754
395ff96d
PH
2755PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2756
5b68f6e4
PH
2757PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2758 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2759 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2760
1ab52c69
PH
2761PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2762 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2763 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2764
b07e6aa3
PH
2765PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2766 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2767 operating systems.
2768
254e032f
PH
2769PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2770 ${stat: expansion item.
2771
3af76a81
PH
2772PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2773 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2774
2548ba04
PH
2775PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2776 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2777 file for comments.
2778
b6c6011d
PH
2779PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2780
cf39cf57
PH
2781PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2782 setting.
2783
f1513293
PH
2784PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2785 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2786
727549a4
PH
2787TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2788
af46795e
PH
2789PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2790 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2791 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2792 the end of the subprocess.
2793
d7b47fd0
PH
2794PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2795 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2796 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2797 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2798 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2799
ee744174
JJ
2800JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2801
b582ab87
PH
2802TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2803
41a13e0a
PH
2804PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2805 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2806
f625cc5a
PH
2807PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2808
2809PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2810
21f7af35
PH
2811PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2812 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2813 HP-UX compiler.
2814
31480e42
PH
2815PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2816
2d280592
PH
2817PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2818 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2819 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2820
7cd1141b
PH
2821PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2822 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2823
2824PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2825 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2826
750af86e
PH
2827PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2828 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2829
2830 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2831 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2832
2833 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2834 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2835 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2836 contributed by a Radius user.
2837
2838PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2839 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2840
4304270b
TK
2841TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2842 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2843
750af86e
PH
2844PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2845 available.
2846
64ffc24f
PH
2847PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2848 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2849 received.
2850
5dd9625b
PH
2851PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2852 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2853 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2854 header lines when this was not necessary.
2855
5591031b
PH
2856PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2857
ba18e66a
PH
2858PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2859 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2860 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2861 exists".
2862
9cec981f
PH
2863PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2864 -bV or -d is used.
2865
aa2b5c79
PH
2866PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2867 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2868 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2869 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2870
48a53b7f
PH
2871PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2872
1c59d63b
PH
2873PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2874
671012da
TK
2875TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2876
1509d3a8
PH
2877PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2878
2879PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2880 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2881 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2882 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2883 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2884 settings.
2885
2886PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2887
2fe1a124
PH
2888PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2889 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2890 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2891 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2892 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2893 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2894 which is clearly wrong.
2895
8800895a
PH
2896PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2897
ccfdb010
PH
2898PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2899 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2900 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2901 subsequently added.
2902
1130bfb0
PH
2903PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2904 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2905
ebcb507f
PH
2906PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2907
c35e155c
PH
2908PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2909 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2910
95d1f782
PH
2911PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2912 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2913
fd6de02e
PH
2914PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2915 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2916
58de37c5
PH
2917PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2918 recipients, not senders.
2919
261cf466
TF
2920TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2921 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2922
3ee512ff
PH
2923PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2924
e08c430f
PH
2925PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2926
bef5a11f
PH
2927PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2928 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2929 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2930 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2931
7546de58
TF
2932TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2933
e5d5a95f
TF
2934TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2935 clock is set back in time.
2936
2e88a017
TF
2937TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2938 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2939
a5f65aa4
TF
2940TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2941 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2942
e7726cbf
PH
2943PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2944 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2945 (see PH/47 above).
2946
a7fdad5b
TF
2947TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2948 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2949 header rewrites.
2950
6af56900
PH
2951PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2952 type ("H").
2953
0925ede6
PH
2954PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2955
66afa403
TF
2956TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2957 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2958 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2959
0154e85a
TF
2960TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2961 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2962 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2963 helo verification defer as a failure.
2964
16f12c76
PH
2965PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2966 actual error message.
2967
bbe902f0 2968
e5a9dba6
PH
2969Exim version 4.52
2970-----------------
2971
2972TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2973
22c3b60b
PH
2974PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2975 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2976 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2977 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2978
06a9b4b5
PH
2979TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2980
c1ac6996
PH
2981PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2982 can still be requested.
2983
9c7a242c
PH
2984PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2985 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2986 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2987 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2988
87ba3f5f
PH
2989TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2990 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2991 circumstances, but probably never did.
2992
2993PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2994 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2995 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2996 in the header line.
2997
29aba418
TF
2998TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2999
fe0dab11
TF
3000TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3001 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3002
11d337a4
TK
3003TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3004
3005TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3006
415c8f3b
PH
3007PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3008 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3009 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3010 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3011 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3012 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3013
958541e9
PH
3014PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3015 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3016 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3017 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3018 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3019 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3020
c206415f
TK
3021TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3022 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3023
2a4be8f9
PH
3024PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3025 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3026
1cba11c5
SC
3027SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3028 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3029
3030SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3031
3032SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3033
3034SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3035
3036SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3037
3038SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3039
3040SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3041
1005d00e
TK
3042TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3043
3044TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3045 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3046 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3047
3048TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3049 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3050 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3051 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3052
9b4768fa
PH
3053PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3054 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3055 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3056
3057PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3058 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3059 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3060 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3061
0d7eb84a
PH
3062PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3063 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3064 to be made).
3065
3066PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3067 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3068 should work with maildirs and everything.
3069
40727bee
TK
3070TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3071 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3072
554d2369
TF
3073TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3074 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3075
1f922db1
PH
3076PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3077 function for BDB 4.3.
3078
ef213c3b
PH
3079PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3080
8ac170f3
PH
3081PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3082 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3083 involved.
3084
b1c749bb
PH
3085PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3086 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3087 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3088 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3089 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3090 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3091
4aac9b49
PH
3092PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3093 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3094 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3095 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3096 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3097 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3098 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3099 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3100
294520c8
TK
3101TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3102 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3103 details.
3104
5bd022fe
PH
3105PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3106 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3107
90e9ce59
PH
3108PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3109 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3110 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3111 test. It is now used for both.
3112
5ea81592
PH
3113PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3114 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3115 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3116 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3117 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3118 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3119
c6c2dc1d
PH
3120PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3121 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3122 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3123 string_vformat().
3124
fffffe4c
PH
3125PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3126 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3127 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3128
9a26b6b2
PH
3129PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3130 experimental DomainKeys support:
3131
3132 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3133 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3134 the control was given.
3135
3136 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3137
4aee0225
PH
3138PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3139
32d668a5
PH
3140PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3141
8187c3f3
PH
3142PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3143 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3144 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3145 db.h files).
3146
ff790e47 3147PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3148 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3149 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3150 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3151 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3152 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3153 course.
ff790e47 3154
5417f6d1
PH
3155PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3156 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3157 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3158 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3159 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3160 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3161
59cf8544
PH
3162PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3163 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3164 do -d+all out of habit.
3165
e7ad8a65
PH
3166PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3167 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3168 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3169
ade42478
PH
3170PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3171 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3172 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3173 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3174 record types that Exim uses.
3175
182ad5cf
PH
3176PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3177 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3178 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3179 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3180 non-existent file that was broken.
3181
b0d9fc80
TK
3182TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3183 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3184
3185TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3186 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3187 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3188
3189TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3190
47c7a64a
PH
3191PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3192 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3193 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3194 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3195 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3196 same time.
3197
a388bce4
SC
3198SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3199 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3200 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3201 at a slight CPU cost.
3202
3203SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3204 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3205
3206SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3207 by Marc Sherman.
3208
0793e4ed
SC
3209SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3210
c58b88df
PH
3211PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3212 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3213
e7ad8a65 3214
7982096b
PH
3215Exim version 4.51
3216-----------------
3217
1a46a8c5
PH
3218TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3219 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3220
2f079f46 3221TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3222
3223TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3224
3225PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3226 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3227
3228PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3229 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3230 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3231 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3232 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3233 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3234 file.
3235
3236PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3237 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3238 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3239 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3240 these two options.
3241
3242PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3243 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3244 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3245 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3246 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3247 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3248 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3249 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3250
3251PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3252 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3253
3254PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3255 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3256 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3257 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3258 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3259 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3260
3261PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3262 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3263 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3264 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3265
3266PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3267 Finch).
3268
3269PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3270 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3271
49c2d5ea
PH
3272PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3273 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3274 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3275 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3276 message.
49c2d5ea 3277
bf759a8b
PH
3278PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3279
83364d30
PH
3280PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3281 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3282
7999bbd7
PH
3283PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3284 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3285 to what was transported.)
3286
7dbf77c9
PH
3287TF/01 Added $received_time.
3288
74e0617f
PH
3289PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3290 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3291 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3292 spamd_address settings.
3293
2f079f46
PH
3294PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3295 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3296 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3297 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3298 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3299
8c841523
PH
3300PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3301
7766a4f0
PH
3302PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3303 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3304 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3305 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3306 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3307
8b417f2c
PH
3308PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3309 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3310
901f42cb
PH
3311PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3312 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3313 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3314 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3315 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3316 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3317 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3318 for failure.
3319
f9b9210e
PH
3320PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3321 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3322 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3323 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3324 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3325 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3326 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3327 "input=".
3328
54cdb463
PH
3329PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3330
cf00dad6
PH
3331PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3332 driver and ACL definitions.
3333
acb1b346
PH
3334PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3335 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3336
c5ddb310
PH
3337PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3338 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3339 understands it better than I do:
3340
3341 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3342 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3343
3344 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3345 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3346 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3347 => three warnings about OTP not working
3348 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3349
3350 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3351 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3352 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3353 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3354 for each call.)
3355 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3356 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3357
3358 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3359 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3360 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3361
31619da6
PH
3362PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3363 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3364 specified.
3365
bebaf0fc
PH
3366PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3367 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3368 "Linux".
3369
475fe28a
PH
3370PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3371 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3372 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3373
3374 warn !verify = sender
3375 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3376
3377 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3378 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3379
7e8bec7a
PH
3380PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3381
3382 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3383 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3384
3385 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3386 nomenclature these days.)
3387
e4a89c47
PH
3388PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3389 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3390
5ca2a9a1
PH
3391PH/30 In these circumstances:
3392 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3393 . First host does not offer TLS;
3394 . First host accepts first address;
3395 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3396 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3397 . Second host accepts second address.
3398 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3399 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3400 address.
7e8bec7a 3401
c688b954
PH
3402PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3403 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3404 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3405 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3406 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3407
fed77020
PH
3408PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3409 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3410
7fe1560f
PH
3411PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3412 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3413
ebb6e6d5
PH
3414PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3415 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3416 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3417
9c4e8f60
PH
3418PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3419 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3420 overlooked.
3421
3422PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3423
d7174846
PH
3424PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3425 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3426 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3427 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3428 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3429 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3430 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3431
3432 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3433 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3434 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3435 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3436 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3437
3438 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3439 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3440 routed further.
3441
cfe75fc3
PH
3442PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3443 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3444 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3445 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3446 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3447 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3448
be22d70e
PH
3449PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3450
0612b098
PH
3451PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3452 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3453 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3454 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3455 printable escape sequences.
3456
2e0c1448
PH
3457PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3458 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3459 body only.
3460
447d236c
PH
3461PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3462 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3463 are as follows:
3464
3465 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3466 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3467 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3468 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3469 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3470
3471 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3472 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3473 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3474
d20976dc
PH
3475PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3476
f656d135
PH
3477PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3478 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3479 play with."
3480
2e2a30b4
PH
3481PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3482 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3483 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3484 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3485 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3486 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3487 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3488 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3489 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3490 the log output.
3491
9176e9f0
PH
3492PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3493 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3494 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3495 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3496 "make".
3497
7982096b 3498
bbe902f0
PH
3499A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3500----------------------------------------
3501
3502Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3503changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3504needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3505in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3506that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3507release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3508from 4.43.
3509
3510I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
35114.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3512those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3513historical information.
3514
3515
f7b63901 3516Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3517-----------------
3518
5fe762f6
PH
3519 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3520
139059f6 3521 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3522 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3523
7086e875
PH
3524 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3525 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3526 place.
3527
35af9f61
PH
3528 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3529 filter fails to execute.
3530
b668c215
PH
3531 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3532 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3533 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3534 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3535 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3536
a494b1e1
PH
3537 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3538
3539 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3540 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3541 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3542 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3543
c5fcb476
PH
3544 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3545 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3546 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3547 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3548 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3549
69358f02
PH
3550 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3551
5be20824
PH
355210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3553
eb2c0248
PH
355411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3555 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3556 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3557 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3558
2a3eea10
PH
355912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3560 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3561 sender verification.
3562
356313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3564 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3565
23c7ff99
PH
356614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3567
4deaf07d
PH
356815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3569 connection timeout.
3570
926e1192
PH
357116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3572 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3573
650edc6f
PH
357417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3575 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3576
2c7db3f5
PH
357718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3578 information about exactly what failed.
3579
3d235903
PH
358019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3581
7c7ad977
PH
358220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3583 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3584 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3585
981756db
PH
358621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3587 It is now set to "smtps".
3588
d4eb88df
PH
358922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3590 ignore_target_hosts.
3591
359223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3593 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3594 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3595 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3596 "[x.x.x.x]".
3597
7d468ab8
PH
359824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3599 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3600 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3601
360225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3603 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3604 wake it up if nothing else does.
3605
62c0818f
PH
360626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3607 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3608 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3609 end up negative.
3610
26034054
PH
361127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3612 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3613
af66f652
PH
361428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3615
90af77f4
PH
361629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3617 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3618 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3619 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3620 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3621 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3622 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3623 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3624
d8ef3577
PH
362530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3626 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3627 than one IP address.
3628
5cb8cbc6
PH
362931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3630 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3631 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3632 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3633
14702f5b
PH
363432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3635 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3636 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3637 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3638 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3639 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3640
063b1e99
PH
364133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3642 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3643 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3644 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3645
652e1b65
PH
364634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3647 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3648 respected.
3649
6f0c9a4f
PH
365035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3651 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3652 $sender_host_address.
3653
33397d19
PH
365436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3655 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3656 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3657 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3658 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3659 very small.
3660
7bb56e1f
PH
366137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3662
3663 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3664 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3665
ea3bc19b
PH
3666 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3667 just the host names, not the priorities.
3668
3669 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3670 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3671 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3672
ea3bc19b 3673 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3674 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3675
0bcb2a0e
PH
367638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3677 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3678 domain.
3679
2ac0e484
PH
368039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3681
4e1fde53
PH
368240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3683 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3684
de365ded
PH
368541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3686 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3687 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3688
f05da2e8
PH
368942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3690
d6453af2
PH
369143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3692
f7b63901
PH
369344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3694
369545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3696 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3697 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3698 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3699 because the tests only now provoked it.
3700
a444213a
PH
370146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3702 (this can affect the format of dates).
3703
0ec020ea
PH
370447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3705 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3706 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3707 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3708
b1206957
PH
370948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3710
371149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3712 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3713 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3714 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3715
26dd5a95
PH
371650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3717 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3718 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3719
343b2385
PH
372051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3721 autoreply.
3722
1c5466b9
PH
372352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3724 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3725 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3726 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3727 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3728 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3729 is going on).
3730
55ee9ee3
PH
373153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3732 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3733 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3734 the line.
3735
d38f8232
PH
373654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3737 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3738 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3739
3740 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3741 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3742 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3743 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3744 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3745 so I produce this patch..."
3746
3295e65b
PH
3747 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3748 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3749 is not defined.
3750
7102e136
PH
375155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3752 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3753 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3754 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3755 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3756
3ca0ba97
PH
375756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3758
c2bcbe20
PH
375957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3760 long debug lines gets shown.
3761
18ce445d
PH
376258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3763 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3764
1f5b4c3d
PH
376559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3766
3767 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3768 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3769 of $primary_hostname.
3770
b975ba52
PH
377160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3772 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3773 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3774 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3775 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3776 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3777 by change 4.50/55 above.
3778
3779 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3780 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3781 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3782 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3783 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3784 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3785 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3786
378761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3788 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3789 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3790 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3791
17ffcae7
PH
379262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3793 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3794
d95f9fdb
PH
379563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3796 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3797 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3798 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3799 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3800
86b8287f
PH
380164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3802 This has been fixed.
3803
60dc5e56
PH
380465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3805 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3806 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3807 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3808 the caching.)
3809
533244af
PH
381066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3811
a5a28604
PH
381267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3813 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3814 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3815 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3816
7e634d24
PH
381768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3818 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3819
3e11c26b
PH
382069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3821 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3822 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3823
6729cf78
PH
382470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3825 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3826 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3827 message there.
3828
00f00ca5
PH
382971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3830 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3831 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3832
c9bdd01c
PH
383372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3834 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3835 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3836 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3837
d43194df
PH
383873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3839 during host lookups.
3840
fe5b5d0b
PH
384174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3842 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3843
3844 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3845
76a2d7ba
PH
384675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3847 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3848 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3849 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3850 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3851 background.
3852
385376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3854 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3855
04f7d5b9
PH
385677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3857 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3858 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3859
bc60667e
PH
386078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3861
bb6e88ff
PH
386279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3863 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3864 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3865 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3866 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3867 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3868 process earlier.
3869
1e70f85b
PH
387080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3871 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3872 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3873 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3874 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3875
387681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3877 tables).
3878
4e01f9d6
PH
387982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3880
1ee1cef2
PH
388183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3882 "vacation" handling.
3883
6e2b4ccc
PH
388484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3885 OS variants using glibc.
3886
8e669ac1
PH
388785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3888
495ae4b0 3889
bbe902f0
PH
3890----------------------------------------------------
3891See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3892----------------------------------------------------
3893
3894
3895Exim version 4.44
3896-----------------
3897
3898 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3899 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3900 transport
3901
3902 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3903 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3904 place.
3905
3906 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3907 filter fails to execute.
3908
3909 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3910 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3911 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3912 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3913 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3914
3915 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3916 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3917 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3918 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3919
3920 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3921 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3922 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3923 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3924 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3925
3926 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3927
3928 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3929 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3930 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3931 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3932
3933 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3934 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3935 sender verification.
3936
393710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3938 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3939
394011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3941 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3942
394312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3944 ignore_target_hosts.
3945
394613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3947 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3948 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3949 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3950 "[x.x.x.x]".
3951
395214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3953 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3954 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3955
395615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3957 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3958 wake it up if nothing else does.
3959
396016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3961 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3962 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3963 end up negative.
3964
396517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3966 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3967
ea3a6f44 396818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3969
397019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3971 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3972 empty pattern.
3973
397420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3975 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3976 one IP address.
3977
ea3a6f44
NM
397821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3979 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3980 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3981 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3982 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3983 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3984
ea3a6f44
NM
398522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3986 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3987 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3988
398923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3990 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3991 $sender_host_address.
3992
399324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3994
ea3a6f44
NM
399525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3996 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3997 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3998
399926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4000 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4001
ea3a6f44
NM
400227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4003 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4004
ea3a6f44
NM
400528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4006 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4007 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4008 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4009
401029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4011 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4012 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4013
ea3a6f44
NM
401430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4015 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4016 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4017 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4018
ea3a6f44
NM
401931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4020 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4021 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4022
ea3a6f44
NM
402331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4024 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4025
ea3a6f44
NM
402632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4027 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4028 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4029 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4030 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4031 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4032 is going on).
bbe902f0 4033
ea3a6f44
NM
403433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4035 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4036 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4037 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4038 CAN-2005-0021
4039
ea3a6f44
NM
404034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4041 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4042 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4043 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4044 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4045 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4046 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4047
4048 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4049 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4050 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4051 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4052 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4053 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4054 CAN-2005-0021
4055
ea3a6f44
NM
405635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4057 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4058 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4059 CAN-2005-0022
4060
ea3a6f44
NM
406136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4062 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4063 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4064 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4065 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4066
ea3a6f44
NM
406737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4068 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4069 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4070 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4071 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4072
ea3a6f44
NM
407338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4074 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4075 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4076 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4077 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4078
4079
495ae4b0
PH
4080Exim version 4.43
4081-----------------
4082
4083 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4084 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4085 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4086 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4087 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4088 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4089 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4090
4091 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4092 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4093 the delivery.
4094
4095 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4096
4097 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4098
4099 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4100 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4101 to local_scan().
4102
4103 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4104 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4105 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4106 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4107 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4108
4109 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4110 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4111
4112 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4113
4114 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4115
411610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4117 header_sender only.
4118
411911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4120 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4121
412212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4123 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4124 affecting debugging statements).
4125
412613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4127
412814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4129 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4130 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4131 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4132 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4133 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4134 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4135 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4136 after the received time, and all would be well.
4137
413815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4139 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4140 condition in an expansion string.
4141
414216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4143
414417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4145 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4146 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4147 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4148 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4149 job under whatever limits there are.
4150
415118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4152
415319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4154 space).
4155
415620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4157 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4158 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4159 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4160 return path is set.
4161
416221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4163 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4164 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4165 binary data in such strings.
4166
416722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4168
416923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4170 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4171 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4172 failure, which is pointless.
4173
417424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4175
417625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4177
417826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4179 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4180 Sender: header lines.
4181
418227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4183 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4184 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4185
418628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4187 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4188 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4189 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4190 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4191 happens.
4192
419329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4194 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4195 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4196 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4197 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4198
419930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4200 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4201 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4202 1024.
4203
420431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4205 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4206
420732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4208 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4209
421033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4211
421232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4213
421433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4215
421634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4217 syntax error.
4218
421935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4220
422136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4222
422337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4224 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4225 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4226 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4227
422838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4229 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4230
4231
4232Exim version 4.42
4233-----------------
4234
4235 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4236 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4237 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4238 it was not quoted.
4239 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4240 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4241 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4242 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4243 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4244 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4245
4246 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4247 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4248 verification failure".
4249
4250 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4251 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4252 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4253 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4254
4255 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4256 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4257 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4258 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4259 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4260 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4261 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4262 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4263 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4264 treated as a timeout.
4265
4266 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4267 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4268 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4269 not set for Exim filters).
4270
4271 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4272 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4273 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4274
4275 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4276
4277 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4278 try to make them clearer.
4279
4280 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4281 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4282
4283 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4284
4285 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4286
428710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4288 only the Cygwin environment.
4289
429011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4291 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4292 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4293 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4294 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4295
429612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4297 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4298 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4299 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4300 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4301 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4302 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4303
430413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4305 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4306
430714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4308
4309 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4310 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4311 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4312
4313 To: susanne@some.where
4314
4315 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4316 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4317 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4318 of addresses in From: header lines).
4319
4320 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4321 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4322 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4323
4324 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4325 treated as non-personal.
4326
4327 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4328 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4329
433015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4331
433216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4333
433417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4335 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4336 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4337
433818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4339 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4340
434119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4342 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4343 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4344 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4345 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4346 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4347
434820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4349 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4350 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4351 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4352 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4353 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4354 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4355 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4356
4357 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4358
435921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4360 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4361
436222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4363 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4364 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4365
436623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4367 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4368
436924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4370 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4371 rather than long int.
4372
437325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4374
437526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4376
4377
4378Exim version 4.41
4379-----------------
4380
4381 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4382 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4383 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4384 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4385 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4386 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4387
4388
4389Exim version 4.40
4390-----------------
4391
4392 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4393 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4394
4395 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4396 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4397 socklen_t is defined.
4398
4399 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4400 always exist.
4401
4402 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4403 configured.
4404
4405 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4406 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4407 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4408 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4409 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4410
4411 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4412 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4413 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4414 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4415
4416 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4417 of flapping under certain conditions.
4418
4419 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4420 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4421 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4422
4423 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4424
442510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4426
442711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4428 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4429 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4430 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4431
443212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4433 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4434 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4435 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4436 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4437 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4438 preserved with the message after it was received.
4439
444013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4441 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4442 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4443 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4444 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4445 test suite worked just fine.
4446
444714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4448 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4449 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4450
445115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4452 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4453 string.
4454
445516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4456 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4457 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4458 does not fully solve it.
4459
446017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4461 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4462 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4463 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4464 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4465
446618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4467 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4468 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4469
447019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4471 string, for example:
4472
4473 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4474
4475 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4476 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4477 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4478 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4479 the routers could not see them.
4480
448120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4482 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4483
448421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4485 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4486 output).
4487
448822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4489 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4490 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4491 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4492 that needed quoting.
4493
449423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4495 was not being matched caselessly.
4496
449724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4498 backslashes.
4499
450025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4501 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4502 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4503 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4504 when use_sender is false.
4505
450626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4507
450827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4509
451028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4511
451229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4513 the configuration file.
4514
451530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4516 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4517
451831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4519
452032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4521 bytes in the message body.
4522
452333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4524 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4525 delivery.
4526
452734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4528
452935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4530
453136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4532 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4533 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4534 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4535 another IP address.
4536
4537
4538Exim version 4.34
4539-----------------
4540
4541 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4542 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4543
4544 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4545 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4546 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4547 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4548 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4549
4550 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4551 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4552
4553 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4554 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4555 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4556
4557 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4558 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4559 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4560
4561 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4562 for routers.
4563
4564 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4565 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4566 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4567 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4568 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4569 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4570 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4571
4572
4573Exim version 4.33
4574-----------------
4575
4576 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4577 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4578 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4579 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4580 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4581 default (and expected) setting.
4582
4583 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4584 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4585 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4586 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4587
4588 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4589 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4590
4591 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4592 in domain lists.
4593
4594 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4595 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4596 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4597 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4598 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4599 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4600
4601 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4602 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4603 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4604
4605 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4606 part (NOT match_host).
4607
4608 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4609
4610 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4611 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4612 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4613 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4614 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4615 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4616 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4617 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4618 the same named file.
4619
462010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4621 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4622 when Exim is built.
4623
462411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4625 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4626 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4627 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4628 a host name.
4629
463012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4631 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4632 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4633
463413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4635
463614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4637
463815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4639
464016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4641 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4642
464317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4644 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4645 before starting the TLS session.
4646
464718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4648
464919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4650 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4651
465220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4653 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4654 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4655 colon in the middle).
4656
4657
4658Exim version 4.32
4659-----------------
4660
4661 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4662 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4663 multiple configurations are in use.
4664
4665 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4666 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4667 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4668 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4669 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4670 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4671
4672 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4673 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4674
4675 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4676 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4677 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4678
4679 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4680 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4681 occurs.
4682
4683 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4684 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4685
4686 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4687
4688 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4689 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4690
4691 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4692
4693 -prval:sval
4694
4695 is equivalent to
4696
4697 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4698
4699 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4700 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4701 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4702 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4703 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4704
470510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4706 Exim's behaviour:
4707
4708 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4709 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4710 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4711 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4712 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4713 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4714
4715 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4716 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4717 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4718 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4719 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4720 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4721 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4722 string.
4723
4724 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4725 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4726 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4727 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4728 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4729
473011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4731
473212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4733 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4734 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4735
473613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4737
473814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4739 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4740 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4741 information.
4742
474315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4744 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4745
474616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4747 Three changes have been made:
4748
4749 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4750 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4751 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4752 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4753 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4754
4755 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4756 been restored.
4757
4758 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4759 the modified behaviour.
4760
4761
4762Exim version 4.31
4763-----------------
4764
4765 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4766 Larry Rosenman.
4767
4768 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4769 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4770
4771 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4772 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4773 try to track down a specific problem.
4774
4775 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4776 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4777 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4778
4779 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4780 warning.
4781
4782 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4783 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4784 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4785 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4786 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4787 some earlier ones do not.
4788
4789 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4790
4791 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4792 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4793 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4794 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4795 address literals are enabled, of course).
4796
4797 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4798
479910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4800 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4801 by a command such as
4802
4803 exim -f "" ...
4804
4805 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4806
480711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4808
480912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4810 remained set. It is now erased.
4811
481213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4813 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4814
481514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4816 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4817 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4818 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4819 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4820 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4821 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4822 appropriate error code.
4823
482415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4825 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4826 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4827 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4828 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4829 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4830
483116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4832 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4833 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4834
483517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4836 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4837 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4838 terminate the header.
4839
484018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4841 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4842 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4843
484419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4845 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4846 (4.30/29). In particular:
4847
4848 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4849 imposed.
4850
4851 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4852 to write a maildirsize file.
4853
4854 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4855 the transport, the new value overrides.
4856
4857 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4858 count.
4859
486020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4861 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4862 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4863 space or a tab.
4864
486521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4866 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4867 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4868 the fallback hosts.
4869
487022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4871 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4872 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4873
487423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4875 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4876 using a union.
4877
487824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4879 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4880 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4881
488225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4883
488426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4885
488627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4887
488828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4889 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4890 become corrupted.
4891
489229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4893 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4894 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4895 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4896 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4897 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4898 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4899 too great.
4900
490130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4902 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4903 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4904 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4905 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4906 incorrectly.
4907
490831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4909 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4910 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4911 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4912 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4913 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4914 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4915 cached value only when the same options are set.
4916
491732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4918
491933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4920 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4921 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4922 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4923 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4924
492534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4926 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4927 it is clearly obsolete.
4928
492935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4930 transport.
4931
493236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4933 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4934 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4935 times.
4936
493737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4938 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4939 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4940 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4941 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4942
494338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4944 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4945 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4946 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4947
494839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4949
4950 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4951
4952 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4953 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4954 2^31.
4955
495640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4957 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4958 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4959 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4960 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4961 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4962 $localpart_data.
4963
496441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4965 with the -f command-line option.
4966
496742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4968 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4969 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4970 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4971 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4972 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4973
497443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4975 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4976 line.
4977
497844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4979 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4980 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4981 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4982 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4983 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4984 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4985 buffer is too small.
4986
498745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4988 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4989
499046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4991 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4992 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4993 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4994 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4995 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4996 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4997 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4998 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4999
500047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5001 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5002 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5003
500448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5005 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5006 ACL").
5007
500849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5009 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5010 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5011 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5012 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5013
501450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5015 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5016 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5017 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5018 is set.
5019
502051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5021
502252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5023
502453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5025 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5026
502754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5028 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5029 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5030
503155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5032 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5033 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5034 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5035 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5036
503756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5038 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5039 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5040 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5041 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5042 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5043 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5044
504557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5046 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5047 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5048 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5049 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5050 the test of how many are available.
5051
505258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5053 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5054 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5055 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5056 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5057 new message is started.
5058
505959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5060 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5061
506260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5063 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5064
506561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5066 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5067 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5068 is no long logged.
5069
507062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5071 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5072 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5073 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5074 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5075 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5076 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5077
507863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5079 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5080 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5081 interpreted as octal.
5082
508364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5084 setting.
5085
508665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5087 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5088 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5089 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5090 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5091 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5092
509366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5094 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5095 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5096 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5097
5098 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5099 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5100 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5101 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5102
5103 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5104 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5105 is a bug fix.
5106
5107 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5108 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5109
511067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5111
511268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5113 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5114 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5115 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5116
511769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5118 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5119 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5120 supplied", which is not helpful.
5121
512270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5123 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5124 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5125
512671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5127 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5128 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5129 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5130 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5131 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5132 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5133 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5134
513572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5136 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5137 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5138 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5139 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5140
514173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5142 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5143 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5144 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5145 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5146 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5147
514874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5149 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5150 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5151
515275. Added write_rejectlog option.
5153
515476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5155 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5156 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5157 variables.
5158
515977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5160
516178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5162 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5163 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5164 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5165 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5166 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5167 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5168 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5169
517079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5171 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5172 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5173 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5174 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5175
517680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5177 Haardt.
5178
517981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5180 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5181 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5182 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5183 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5184 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5185 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5186 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5187 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5188
5189
5190Exim version 4.30
5191-----------------
5192
5193 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5194 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5195 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5196
5197 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5198 fixed.
5199
5200 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5201 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5202 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5203
5204 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5205 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5206 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5207 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5208 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5209 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5210
5211 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5212 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5213 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5214 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5215 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5216 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5217 the Exim test suite.
5218
5219 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5220 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5221 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5222 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5223
5224 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5225 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5226 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5227 specify it in this variable.
5228
5229 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5230 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5231 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5232 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5233
5234 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5235 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5236 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5237 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5238
5239 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5240 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5241 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5242 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5243 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5244
5245 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5246
524710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5248 they are logged.
5249
525011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5251 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5252 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5253 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5254 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5255
525612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5257 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5258
525913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5260 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5261 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5262 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5263 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5264
526514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5266 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5267
526815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5269 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5270 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5271
527216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5273 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5274
527517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5276 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5277
527818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5279 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5280 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5281
528219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5283 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5284
528520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5286 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5287 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5288 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5289
529021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5291
529222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5293 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5294 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5295 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5296
529723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5298
529924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5300 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5301
530225. Added .include_if_exists.
5303
530426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5305 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5306 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5307 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5308 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5309 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5310
531127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5312
531328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5314 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5315 this.
5316
531729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5318
531930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5320 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5321
5322 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5323 550 Sender verify failed
5324
5325 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5326 the final line of the response.
5327
532831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5329 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5330 all other user lookups.
5331
533232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5333 delivery time.
5334
533533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5336 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5337 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5338 result into an int without checking.
5339
534034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5341 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5342 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5343
534435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5345 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5346 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5347 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5348
534936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5350 correctly.
5351
535237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5353 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5354
535538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5356 to the empty sender.
5357
535839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5359 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5360 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5361 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5362 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5363 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5364 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5365 panic log.
5366
536740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5368 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5369 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5370 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5371 used.
5372
537341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5374 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5375
537642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5377 timestamps.
5378
537943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5380 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5381
538244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5383
538445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5385 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5386 logs.
5387
538846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5389 as soon as it is encountered.
5390
539147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5392
539348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5394 rewritten to "<>".
5395
539649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5397 recognizes a tab character.
5398
539950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5400 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5401 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5402 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5403
540451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5405
540652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5407 crash.
5408
540953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5410
541154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5412
541355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5414 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5415 2822.
5416
541756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5418 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5419 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5420 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5421 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5422
542357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5424 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5425
542658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5427 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5428 list (.included file names were always shown).
5429
543059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5431 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5432 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5433 root at that time.
5434
543560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5436 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5437
543861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5439
544062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5441
544263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5443
544464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5445 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5446 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5447 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5448 failures to open the logs.
5449
545065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5451 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5452 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5453 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5454 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5455 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5456 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5457
5458
5459Exim version 4.24
5460-----------------
5461
5462 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5463 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5464 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5465 change 4.23/1.
5466
5467 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5468 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5469 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5470
5471 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5472 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5473 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5474
5475 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5476 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5477 causing some misleading effects.
5478
5479 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5480 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5481 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5482
5483 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5484 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5485 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5486 queue-runner function directly.
5487
5488
5489Exim version 4.23
5490-----------------
5491
5492 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5493 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5494
5495 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5496 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5497 was always written to the default place.
5498
5499 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5500 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5501 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5502
5503 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5504
5505 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5506
5507 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5508 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5509 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5510
5511 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5512 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5513 must start.
5514
5515 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5516 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5517 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5518
5519 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5520 command line option is disabled.
5521
5522 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5523 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5524
5525 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5526
5527 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5528
5529 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5530 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5531
553210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5533
553411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5535 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5536 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5537 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5538 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5539 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5540
554112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5542 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5543 timeout.
5544
554513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5546 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5547
554814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5549 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5550
555115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5552 received was valid base64.
5553
555416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5555 name of the variable that was being set.
5556
555717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5558
555918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5560 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5561 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5562 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5563 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5564 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5565
556619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5567
556820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5569 nor realm was specified.
5570
557121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5572 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5573 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5574 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5575
557622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5577 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5578 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5579
558023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5581 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5582 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5583
558424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5585 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5586 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5587 some systems use these upper case variants.
5588
558925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5590 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5591 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5592 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5593
559426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5595
559627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5597 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5598
559928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5600 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5601 expansion variable.
5602
560329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5604
560530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5606 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5607 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5608 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5609
561031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5611 using it.
5612
561332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5614 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5615 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5616
561733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5618 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5619
562034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5621 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5622 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5623 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5624
562535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5626 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5627 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5628
562936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5630
563137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5632 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5633 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5634 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5635 aborted.
5636
563738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5638 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5639 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5640
564139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5642
564340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5644 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5645
564641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5647 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5648
564942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5650 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5651 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5652 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5653 when emails are that large.
5654
5655
5656
5657Exim version 4.22
5658-----------------
5659
5660 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5661 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5662
5663 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5664 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5665 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5666
5667 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5668 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5669 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5670
5671 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5672 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5673 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5674 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5675 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5676
5677 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5678 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5679 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5680 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5681 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5682 ever.
5683
5684 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5685 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5686 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5687 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5688 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5689 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5690 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5691 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5692 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5693 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5694 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5695 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5696 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5697 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5698
5699 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5700 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5701 parameterised it.
5702
5703 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5704 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5705 error should be diagnosed.
5706
5707 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5708 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5709 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5710 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5711 appeared instead of "NULL".
5712
571310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5714 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5715 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5716 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5717 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5718 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5719 proceeds).
5720
5721 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5722 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5723 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5724
5725
5726Exim version 4.21
5727-----------------
5728
5729 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5730 or receiver verification errors.
5731
5732 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5733 name.
5734
5735 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5736 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5737 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5738 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5739
5740 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5741 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5742 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5743 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5744 shouldn't happen again.
5745
5746 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5747 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5748 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5749
5750 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5751 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5752
5753 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5754
5755 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5756 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5757
5758 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5759 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5760 RFC.
5761
576210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5763 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5764 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5765
576611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5767 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5768 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5769 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5770
577112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5772 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5773 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5774 to define what should happen).
5775
577613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5777 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5778 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5779
578014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5781
578215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5783
578416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5785 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5786
578717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5788 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5789 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5790 structure in all cases.
5791
5792 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5793 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5794 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5795 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5796
579718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5798 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5799 domain name.
5800
580119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5802 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5803
580420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5805 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5806
580721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5808 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5809 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5810
581122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5812 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5813 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5814
581523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5816 the book and for uniformity.
5817
581824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5819
582025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5821 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5822 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5823 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5824 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5825 non-existent command as the problem.
5826
582726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5828 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5829 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5830
583127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5832
583328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5834 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5835 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5836
583729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5838 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5839 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5840 timestamps using strftime().
5841
584230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5843 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5844
584532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5846 transport-time rewrites.
5847
584833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5849 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5850 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5851 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5852
585334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5854 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5855
585635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5857 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5858 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5859 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5860 comma and a space.
5861
586236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5863 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5864 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5865 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5866 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5867 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5868 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5869
587037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5871 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5872 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5873 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5874 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5875
587638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5877 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5878 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5879 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5880 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5881 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5882 remaining text gets split now.
5883
588439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5885 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5886 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5887 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5888
588940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5890 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5891 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5892 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5893 $return_path.
5894
589541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5896 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5897 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5898 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5899 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5900 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5901 passed through if needed.
5902
590342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5904 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5905 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5906 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5907 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5908 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5909
591043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5911 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5912 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5913 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5914 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5915
591644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5917 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5918 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5919 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5920 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5921
592245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5923 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5924 noticed.
5925
592646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5927 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5928 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5929 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5930 mayhem of various kinds.
5931
593247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5933 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5934 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5935 the right test for positive values.
5936
593748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5938 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5939 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5940 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5941 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5942 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5943 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5944 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5945 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5946 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5947 envelope.
5948
594949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5950 module.
5951
595250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5953 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5954 forbidding it.
5955
595651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5957 the existing equality matching.
5958
595952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5960 dealing with inode numbers.
5961
596253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5963 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5964 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5965
596654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5967 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5968 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5969 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5970 local_scan().
5971
597255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5973 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5974 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5975 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5976 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5977 relay addresses has also been removed.
5978
597956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5980
598157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5982 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5983 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5984
598558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5986 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5987 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5988 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5989 processing applies to CR:
5990
5991 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5992 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5993
5994 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5995 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5996 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5997 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5998
599959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6000 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6001 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6002
600360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6004 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6005 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6006 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6007 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6008 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6009 arisen.
6010
601161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6012 program routers.
6013
601462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6015 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6016 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6017 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6018 adds:
6019
6020 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6021
6022 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6023
6024 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6025
602663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6027 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6028 not considered personal.
6029
603064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6031
603265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6033
603466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6035
603667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6037 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6038 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6039 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6040 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6041 header lines, and spool format errors.
6042
604368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6044 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6045 for more flexibility.
6046
604769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6048 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6049 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6050
605170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6052 Sabourenkov.
6053
605471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6055 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6056 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6057 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6058 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6059 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6060 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6061 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6062 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6063
606472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6065 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6066 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6067 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6068 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6069 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6070 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6071
607273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6073 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6074 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6075
607674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6077 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6078 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6079 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6080 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6081 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6082 instead of killing the process with assert().
6083
608475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6085 than Unicode encoding.
6086
608776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6088 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6089 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6090 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6091
609277. Added process_log_path.
6093
609478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6095 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6096
609779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6098 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6099
610080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6101 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6102 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6103
610481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6105 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6106 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6107 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6108 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6109 were applied:
6110
6111 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6112 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6113 as invalid.
6114
611582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6116 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6117 they will be used during message reception.
6118
6119
6120Exim version 4.20
6121-----------------
6122
6123The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6124
6125****