I18N: Fix protocol recorded for a multi-SMTPUTF8-message connection. Bug 2287
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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Exim version 4.92
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11JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
13
14JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
16
17JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
18 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
19 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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21JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
22 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
23 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
24
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25JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
26 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
27 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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28 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
29 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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30 messed with.
31
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32PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
33 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
34
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35JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
36 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
37 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
38 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
39 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
40 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
41 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
42
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43JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
44 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
45
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46JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
47 legitimate.
48
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49JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
50 Previously this would segfault.
51
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52JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
53 segfault.
54
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55JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
56 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
57 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
58 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
59 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
60 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
61
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62JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
63
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64JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
65 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
66 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
67 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
68
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69JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
70
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71JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
72 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
73 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
74 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
75
5054c4fd 76JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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78JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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80JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
81 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
82 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
83
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c39c8870 88GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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89 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
90 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
91 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
92 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
93 be defined in redis_servers.
c39c8870 94
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95GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
96 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
97
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98JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
99 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
100 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
101 extant use locations.
102
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103JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
104 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
105
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106JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
107 Previously only the last row was returned.
108
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109JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
110 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
111 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
112 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
113 input.
114
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115JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
116 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
117 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
118 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
119 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
120 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
121 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
122 Main pool for expansions.
123 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
124 active in the testsuite.
125 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
126
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127JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
128 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
129 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
130 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
131 round-robin DNS.
132
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133JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
134 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
135 failure response.
136
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137JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
138 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
139 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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140
141JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
142 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
143 ClamAV interface method is removed.
c11d665d 144
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145JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
146 rows affected is given instead).
147
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148JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
149 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
150
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151JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
152 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
153 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
154 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
155 for all multi-message initiating connections.
156
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157JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
158 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
159 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
160
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161JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
162 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
163 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
164 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
165 separate.
166
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167JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
168 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
169 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
170 fake-reject.
171
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172HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
173
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174JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
175 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
176
aab9a843 177PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 178 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 179 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 180
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181JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
182 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
183 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
184 and send a quit.
185
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186JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
187 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
188
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189JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
190 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
191 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
192
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193JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
194 for the build is renamed.
195
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196JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
197 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
198 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
199
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200JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
201 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
202 result replacing the original.
203
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204JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
205 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
206 and the resources needed to be freed.
207
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208JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
209
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210JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
211 was not propagated.
212
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213JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
214 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
215 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
216 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
217
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218JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
219 length value. Previously this would segfault.
220
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221HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
222 newer versions of the scanner.
223
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224JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
225 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
226 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
227 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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228 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
229 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
230 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
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232JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
233 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
234 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
235 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
236 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
237 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
238 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
239 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
240 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
241 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
242
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243JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
244 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
245
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246JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
247
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248HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
249 allows proper process termination in container environments.
250
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251JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
252 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
253
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254JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
255 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
256 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
257
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258JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
259 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
260 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 261 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 262
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263JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
264 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
265 would be spooled.
266
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267PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
268 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
269
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270HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
271 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
272 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
273 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
274 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 275
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276JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
277 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
278 lines.
279
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280JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
281 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
282
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283PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
284 suffix list.
285
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286JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
287 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
288 "bare" representation.
289
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290JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
291 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
292 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
293 corrupted the output.
294
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298
299JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
300 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
301 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
302 pairs of long lines into single ones.
303
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304PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
305 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
306
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307JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
308 This permits better logging.
309
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310JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
311 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
312 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
313 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
314 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 315 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 316
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317JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
318 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
319 "exiwhat" output.
320
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321PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
322 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
323 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
324
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325JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
326 than 255 are no longer allowed.
327
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328JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
329 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
330 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
331 client, there is no benefit for these.
332 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
333 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
334 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
335 is used (3.2.4 +).
336
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337PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
338 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
339
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340JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
341 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
342 erroneously found still-pending ones.
343
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344JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
345 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
346
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347JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
348 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
349 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
350 signature and again for transmission.
351
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352JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
353 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 354 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 355
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356JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
357 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
358 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
359 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
360 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
361 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
362 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
363
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364JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
365 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
366 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 367 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 368
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369PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
370 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
371 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
372 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
373 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
374 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
375 processing options.
376
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377JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
378 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
379 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
380 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
381 connections.
925ac8e4 382
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383PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
384 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
385 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
386 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
387 versions.
388
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389JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
390 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
391 inaccessible.
392
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393JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
394 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
395 banner-time rejection.
396
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397JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
398 callout/hold.
399
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400PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
401 is the name of a transport.
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402 Fixes bug 2140.
403
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404HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
405
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406JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
407 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
408
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409JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
410 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
411 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
412 during compilation.
413
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414JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
415 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
416 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 417 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 418
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419JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
420 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
421 initial verify call returned a defer.
422
ad1a76fe 423JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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424 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
425
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426JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
427 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
428
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429JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
430 if present. Previously it was ignored.
431
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432JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
433 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
434
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435JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
436 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
437 extensible.
438
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439PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
440 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
441
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442PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
443 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
444 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
445
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446JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
447 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
448 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
449 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
450
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451HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
452 and confused the parent.
453
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454JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
455 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
456
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457JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
458 for log purposes.
459
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460JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
461 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
462 out-of-order delivery.
463
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464JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
465 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
466 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
467 error for the HELO.
468
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469JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
470 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
471 desynchronisation.
472
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473JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
474 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
475 one run was done. Bug 2189.
476
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477JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
478 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
479 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
480 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
481 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
482 message is still "Temporary local problem".
483
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484JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
485 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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486 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
487
488HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
489 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
490 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 491
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492JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
493 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
494 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
495 though a different problem.
496
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9427e879 501JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 502 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 503
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504JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
505
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506PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
507 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
508
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509JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
510 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
511
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512JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
513 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
514 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
515 before acknowledging the chunk.
516
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517PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
518 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
519 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
520
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521JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
522 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
523 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
524 should.
525
526JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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527 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
528 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 529
bd8fbe36 530JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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531 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
532
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533JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
534 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
535 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
536 body hash calculated value.
537
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538JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
539 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
540 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
541
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542JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
543
544JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
545 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
546
547JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
548 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
549 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
550
551JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
552 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
553 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
554 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
555 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
556 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
557
558JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
559 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
560 past that check, despite the cost.
561
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562JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
563 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
564 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
565
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566PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
567 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
568 TLS library to consume.
569
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570PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
571
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572PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
573
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574JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
575 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
576 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
577 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
578 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
579 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
580 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
581
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582PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
583
584PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
585
586PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
587 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
588 should be warning-free.
589
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590JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
591
592HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
593 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
594
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595HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
596 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
597 general solution here.
598
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599PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
600 already-broken messages in the queue.
601
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602JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
603
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604JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
605
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610JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
611 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 612
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613JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
614 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
615 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
616
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617JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
618 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
619 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
620 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
621 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
622 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
623 if one fails this test.
624 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
625 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
626
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627JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
628 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
629
23bb6982 630JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 631 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 632
0bd1b1ed 633JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 634 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 635
20b9a2dc
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636JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
637 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
638
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639JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
640 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
641
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642JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
643
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644JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
645 certificate).
646
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647JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
648 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
649 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
650 connection after a verify cache hit.
651 Do not update it with the verify result either.
652
653JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
654 when routing results in more than one destination address.
655
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656JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
657 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
658 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
659 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
660 when the cutthrough connection is made).
661
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662JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
663 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
664
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665JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
666 Previously they were not counted.
667
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668JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
669 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
670 that needed the lookup.
671
4c04137d 672JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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673 distinguished as "(=".
674
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675JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
676 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
677
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678JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
679
680JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
681 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 682
4c04137d 683JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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684 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
685
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686JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
687 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
688 compatible.
689
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690JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
691 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
692 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
693 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
694
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695JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
696
f59aaaaa 697JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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698 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
699 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 700
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701JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
702 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
703 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
704 be lost.
705
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706JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
707 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
708 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
709 itself :(
710
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711JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
712 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
713 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
714
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715JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
716 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
717 options.
718
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719JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
720
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721PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
722 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
723
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724PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
725 are not in the system include path.
726
ad7fc6eb 727JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 728 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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729 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
730 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
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732JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
733 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
734 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
735
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736JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
737
8d73599f
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738HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
739 an incoming connection.
740
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741HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
742 to rspamd.
743
8e53a4fc
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744HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
745 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 746
87cb4a16 747JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 748 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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749
750
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754JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
755 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
756 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
757 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 758
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759TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
760 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
761
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762TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
763 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
764 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
765 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
766 outgoing I= field.
767
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768JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
769 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
770 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
771 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
772 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
773 check on the next write.
774
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775HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
776 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
777 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
778 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
779 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
780
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781JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
782 mime_regex ACL conditions.
783
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784JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
785 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
786 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
787
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788JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
789 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
790 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
791 an authenticate fail is not an error.
792
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793HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
794 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
795
4c04137d 796JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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797 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
798
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799JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
800 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
801 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
802 distinct.
803
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804JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
805
806JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
807
ec0eb1a3
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808JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
809
41e93589
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810JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
811 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
812
98b98887 813JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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814 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
815
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816JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
817
858e91c2
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818JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
819 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
820
821JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
822
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823JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
824 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
825
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826JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
827
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828JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
829 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 830 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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831 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
832 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
833 they will retry in-clear.
834 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
835 at installation time.
836
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837HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
838 with the $config_file variable.
839
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840JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
841 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
842 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
843 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 844 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 845
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846GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
847 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
848 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
849 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
850 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
851
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852JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
853
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854JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
855 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
856 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
857 list order is no longer honoured.
858
4c04137d 859JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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860 for DKIM processing.
861
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862JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
863 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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865JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
866 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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867 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
868 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 869
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870JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
871 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
872
2d8d625b
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873JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
874 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
875
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876JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
877 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
878
f2f2c91b
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879JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
880
ce325893
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881JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
882 cached by the daemon.
883
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884JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
885 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
886
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887JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
888 keys are given for lookup.
889
f444c2c7
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890JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
891 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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892 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
893 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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895JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
896 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
897 server-side so match that on older versions.
898
07c73177 899JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 900 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 901 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 902
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903JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
904 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
905
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906JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
907 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
908 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 909 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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910 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
911 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
912 initial truncated version.
913
ab9152ff 914JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 915
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916JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
917
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918JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
919 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
920
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921JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
922
bc3c7bb7 923HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 924
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925JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
926 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
927 induced overflows.
928
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929JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
930 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
931 stage.
932
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933JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
934 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
935
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936JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
937 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
938 former class.
939
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940JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
941 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
942 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
943
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944JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
945 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
946 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
947 extraction. Accept either.
948
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953JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
954 expanded.
955
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956JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
957
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958JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
959 it.
960
01a4a5c5 961JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 962 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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963 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
964 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
965
cb1d7830 966JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 967 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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968 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
969
610ff438 970JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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971 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
972 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
973 TLS connections
610ff438 974
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975JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
976 sites use this now.
977
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978JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
979 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
980 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
981 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
982 have a dsn_lasthop option.
983
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984JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
985 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 986 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 987
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988JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
989
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990JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
991 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
992
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993JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
994 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
995
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996JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
997 /defer_ok option.
998
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999JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1000 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1001
fd4d8871 1002JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1003 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1004 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1005
1006JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2aad5761
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1007 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1008 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1009
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1010JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1011 timeout value per server.
1012
2ad78978
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1013JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1014 now have the list separator specified.
1015
8a512ed5 1016JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1017 option values.
8a512ed5 1018
82c0c8ea 1019JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1020 under OpenSSL.
1021
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1022JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1023
82c0c8ea
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1024JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1025 rather than the verbs used.
1026
b980ed83
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1027JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1028 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1029
6c9ed72e
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1030JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1031
cfab9d68 1032HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1033 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1034
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1035JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1036 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1037
fd4c285c
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1038HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1039 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1040
4c04137d 1041JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1042
d2a2c69b
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1043JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1044
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1045JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1046 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1047 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1048 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1049
1f12df4d
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1050JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1051
1f155f8e
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1052JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1053 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1054
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1055JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1056 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1057
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1058JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1059
474f71bf
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1060JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1061
7137ca4b
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1062JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1063
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1064JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1065 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1066
2f460950
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1067JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1068 added for tls authenticator.
1069
2f680c0c
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1070HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1071
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1076TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1077 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1078 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1079 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1080 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1081 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1082 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1083
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1084TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1085 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1086 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1087 function when detected.
1088
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1089JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1090 cause callback expansion.
1091
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1092TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1093 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1094 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1095 instead of bool when processing it.
1096
0f06b4f2 1097JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1098 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1099
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1100JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1101
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1102JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1103
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1104TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1105
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1106TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1107 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1108
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1109JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1110 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1111 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1112 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1113 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1114 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1115
8bc732e8
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1116JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1117 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1118 exceeded it.
1119
a7fec7a7
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1120JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1121 version 3.3.6 or later.
1122
4c04137d 1123JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1124 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1125 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1126 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1127 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1128 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1129 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1130
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1131TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1132 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1133
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1134JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1135 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1136 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1137 matches.
1138
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1139JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1140 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1141 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1142
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1143JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1144 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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1145
1146JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1147 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1148 syntax errors.
1149
3394b36a 1150JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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1151
1152JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1153 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1154
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1155TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1156 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1157 tarball.
1158
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1159JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1160
4c04137d 1161JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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1162 Bug 1561.
1163
1164JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1165 output list separator was used.
1166
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1170TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1171 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1172 return.
1f0ebb98 1173
a612424f 1174JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1175 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1176
1177JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1178
1179TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1180 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1181
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1185
1186TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1187
1188 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1189 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1190 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1191 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1192 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1193 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1194
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1195TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1196 utilities have not been installed.
1197
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1198JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1199 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1200
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1201TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1202 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1203
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1204TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1205 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1206 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1207 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1208
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1209JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1210
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1211TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1212 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1213
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1214PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1215 not dns_use_dnssec.
1216
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1217JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1218
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1219TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1220 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1221 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1222
8ddef691 1223TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1224 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1225 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1226 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1227 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1228 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1229
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1230JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1231
e45a1c37
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1232JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1233 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1234
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1235JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1236 failed delivery.
1237
b1f8e4f8
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1238JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1239
511a6c14 1240JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
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1241
1242JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1243 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1244
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1245JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1246 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1247
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1248TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1249
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1250JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1251
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1252JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1253 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1254
1255 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1256 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1257 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1258
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1259TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1260 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1261 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1262 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1263
35aba663
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1264JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1265
8c51eead 1266JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1267 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1268 lookup).
8c51eead 1269
deae092e
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1270TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1271 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1272 Schlichting.
35aba663 1273
fd3b6a4a 1274JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1275 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1276
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1277TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1278 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1279
2b4a568d
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1280JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1281
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1282TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1283 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1284 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1285
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1286JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1287 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1288
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1289JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1290 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1291 hosts_request_ocsp.
1292
ed3bba5f 1293JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1294 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1295 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1296
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1297JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1298
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1299TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1300 Christian Aistleitner.
1301
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1302JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1303
6eb02f88
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1304TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1305 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1306
00bff6f6
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1307JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1308 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1309
071c51f7
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1310JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1311 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1312
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1313TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1314 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1315
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1316TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1317 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1318
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1319TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1320 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1321 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1322
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1323JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1324
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1325PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1326 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1327 Jasper Wallace.
1328
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1329JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1330
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1331TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1332 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1333 CVE-2014-2972
1334
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1339PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1340
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1341PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1342 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1343
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1344PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1345 by GnuTLS.
1346
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1347PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1348 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1349 routines.
1350
13363eba 1351PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1352
66645890 1353PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1354 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1355 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1356 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1357 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1358
a3fb9793 1359PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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1360 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1361 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1362 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1363 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1364 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1365
d27f98fe 1366TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1367
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1368TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1369
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1370TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1371 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1372
ae0e32ee 1373TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1374 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1375 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1376
1377TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1378
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1379TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1380
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1381TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1382 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1383
976b7e9f
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1384JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1385
be4a1376
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1386JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1387
ec4b68e5
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1388PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1389
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1390NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1391 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1392
585121e2 1393JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1394
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1395PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1396 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1397 function.
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1399PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1400 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1401
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1402JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1403 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1404 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1405
846726c5
JH
1406JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1407
3a796370
JH
1408JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1409
ea722490 1410JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1411 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1412
b1b05573
JH
1413JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1414 Bugzilla 884.
1415
362145b5
JH
1416JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1417 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1418
3c0a92dc
JH
1419JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1420 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1421
6d7c6175
PP
1422PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1423 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1424 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1425
6f123593
JH
1426JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1427 authenticators.
1428
c8e2fc1e
JH
1429JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1430 for control.
1431
005ac57f
PP
1432PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1433
3f1df0e3
PP
1434PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1435 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1436 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1437 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1438
67bd1ab3
TF
1439TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1440
1441 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1442 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1443 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1444 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1445 the retry rules.
1446
1447 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1448 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1449 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1450
1451 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1452 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1453 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1454 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1455
1ddeb334
TF
1456 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1457 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1458 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1459 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1460 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1461 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1462 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1463
1464 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1465 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1466
326cdc37
TF
1467TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1468
1469 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1470
1471 Resent-From: f
1472
1473 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1474 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1475 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1476 username as equal to the username.
1477
1478 This change corrects that bug.
1479
f62514b3
GF
1480GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1481 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1482 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1483
eb505532
TF
1484TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1485
14c7b357
PP
1486PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1487 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1488 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1489 NULL dereference and crash.
1490
94eaf700
PP
1491JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1492
6f5a440a
PP
1493PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1494 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1495 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1496
514ee161
SC
1497SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1498
fd98a5c6
JH
1499JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1500 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1501 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1502 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1503 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1504 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1505 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1506 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1507 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1508 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1509 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1510
035c7f1e
PP
1511PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1512 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1513
ff284120
PP
1514PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1515 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1516 Bugzilla 880.
1517
26e72755
PP
1518PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1519 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1520 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1521 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1522 an empty string is now equivalent.
1523
0fbd9bff
PP
1524PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1525 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1526 not performing validation itself.
1527
700d22f3
PP
1528PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1529 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1530
fcc8e047
JH
1531JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1532 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1533
4c04137d 1534TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1535
8c020188
PP
1536PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1537 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1538 other false fix of the same issue.
1539 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1540 Bugzilla 1363.
1541
d13cdd30
PP
1542PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1543 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1544
e2fbf4a2
PP
1545PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1546 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1547 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1548
f4c1088b
PP
1549PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1550 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1551 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1552
c5c2182f
PP
1553TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1554
73431ca9
JH
1555JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1556
2d07a215
TL
1557TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1558 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1559
a30a8861
TL
1560TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1561 Alexander Miroch.
1562
33382dd9
TL
1563TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1564 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1565 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1566 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1567 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1568
046172e6
TL
1569TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1570 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1571
581d7bee 1572TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1573 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1574 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1575
1576TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1577 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1578 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1579 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1580
237b2cf2
TL
1581TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1582
9fc5a352
TL
1583TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1584 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1585 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1586
b10e4ec2
TL
1587TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1588
e2cebd74
TL
1589TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1590 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1591 interaction.
1592
1593TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1594 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1595
2519e60d
TL
1596TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1597 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1598
e78e6ecf 1599
4263f395
PP
1600Exim version 4.80.1
1601-------------------
1602
1603PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1604 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1605 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1606
ea722490 1607
b1770b6e 1608Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1609-----------------
1610
1611PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1612 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1613 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1614
23c7e742
NM
1615NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1616
b322aac8
NM
1617NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1618 improved.
1619
4a891427
NM
1620NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1621
c1e794ba 1622PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1623
97753960
PP
1624PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1625
1626PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1627 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1628
df6303fa
PP
1629PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1630 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1631
7e6a8985
PP
1632PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1633 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1634
f1e05cc7 1635PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1636 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1637 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1638
4c287009
PP
1639PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1640
b98bb9ac
PP
1641PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1642 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1643
4a6a987a
PP
1644PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1645
c45dd180 1646PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1647
7db8d074
PP
1648PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1649 non-compliant senders.
1650 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1651
eae0036b 1652NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1653 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1654 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1655
dec5017e
PP
1656PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1657 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1658 in spool file corruption.
1659
c80c5570
PP
1660PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1661 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1662 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1663 "Got SSL error 2".
1664
076b11e2
PP
1665TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1666 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1667 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1668
5407bfff
JH
1669JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1670 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1671
9e45c72b
PP
1672JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1673
e74376d8
PP
1674PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1675 diagnostics.
1676 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1677
4c04137d 1678PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1679 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1680 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1681
7be682ca
PP
1682PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1683 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1684 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1685 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1686
ef840681
PP
1687PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1688 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1689
5bfb4cdf
PP
1690PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1691 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1692 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1693 resolver implementation change.
1694
c6e95d22
PP
1695PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1696 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1697
9cbad13b
PP
1698PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1699
9ee44efb
PP
1700PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1701
6a6084f8
PP
1702PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1703 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1704
12dd53c7
PP
1705PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1706 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1707
9e45c72b 1708JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1709 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1710
17c76198
PP
1711PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1712 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1713 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1714 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1715 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1716
53947857 1717PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1718
eae0036b 1719PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1720 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1721 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1722
9e45c72b 1723JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1724
7390e768
PP
1725PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1726 read-only, out of scope).
1727 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1728
08488c86
PP
1729PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1730 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1731 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1732 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1733
6475bd82
PP
1734PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1735
81f91683
PP
1736PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1737 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1738 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1739 real issues in debug logging.
1740
5779e6aa
PP
1741PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1742 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1743
3375e053
PP
1744PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1745 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1746 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1747
1748PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1749 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1750 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1751 problems.
3375e053 1752
9d26b8c0
PP
1753PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1754 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1755
57eb9e91 1756PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1757 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1758 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1759 needs to override this, it can.
1760
16880d1a
PP
1761PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1762 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1763 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1764
a799883d
PP
1765PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1766 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1767 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1768 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1769
3ecab157 1770PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1771
0599f9cf 1772
867fcbf5
PP
1773Exim version 4.77
1774-----------------
1775
1776PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1777 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1778
f1a29782
TF
1779TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1780
ab42bd23
TK
1781TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1782 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1783
0ca0cf52
TF
1784TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1785 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1786
921b12ca
TF
1787TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1788 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1789 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1790
1791 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1792 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1793 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1794 not safe for signals.
1795
1796 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1797 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1798 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1799 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1800 exiwhat.
1801
c99ce5c9
TF
1802TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1803
1804 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1805 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1806 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1807 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1808 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1809
1810 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1811 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1812 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1813 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1814 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1815 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1816
1817 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1818 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1819 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1820 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1821
1822 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1823 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1824 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1825 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1826
1827 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1828 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1829 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1830 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1831 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1832 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1833 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1834 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1835 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1836
1837 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1838 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1839 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1840 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1841
1842 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1843 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1844 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1845 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1846 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1847 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1848 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1849 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1850 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1851 details in the main documentation.
1852
3634fc25
TF
1853TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1854
792e8a19
TF
1855TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1856
5901f0ab
TF
1857TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1858 repository when doing development or release builds.
1859
7f2a2a43
PP
1860PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1861 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1862
061b7ebd
PP
1863PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1864 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1865 Bugzilla 97.
1866
e12f8c32
PP
1867PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1868
9e949f00 1869PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1870 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1871
1872PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1873 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1874
555ae6af 1875PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1876 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1877
1878PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1879 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1880
6f7fe114
PP
1881PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1882 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1883
c566dd90
PP
1884PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1885 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1886 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1887 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1888
d6cc7c78 1889PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1890 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1891 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1892
0d0e4455
PP
1893PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1894
3399bb60 1895PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1896
1897PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1898 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1899
0ca0cf52 1900
10906672
PP
1901Exim version 4.76
1902-----------------
1903
1904PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1905
754a0503
PP
1906PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1907 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1908
c0c7b2da
PP
1909PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1910
e97d1f08
PP
1911PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1912
084c1d8c
PP
1913PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1914 Bugzilla 1098.
1915
4e7ee012
PP
1916PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1917 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1918
c8d52a00
PP
1919TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1920 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1921
54e7ce4a
PP
1922PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1923 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1924
5ee6f336
PP
1925PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1926 Bugzilla 1104.
1927
c8d52a00 1928TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1929 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1930
1931TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1932 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1933 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1934 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1935
1936PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1937 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1938
10906672 1939
aa097c4c
NM
1940Exim version 4.75
1941-----------------
1942
4c04137d 1943NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1944 Bugzilla 1073
1945
7f3d9eff
TF
1946TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1947 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1948 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1949
159f52d2
TF
1950TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1951 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1952
0cc9542a
PP
1953PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1954 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1955 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1956
f7274286
PP
1957PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1958 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1959
7b797365
PP
1960PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1961 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1962
caacae52
NM
1963NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1964 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1965
09dcaba9
NM
1966NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1967 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1968
bc19a55b
PP
1969PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1970 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1971
bd4c9759
NM
1972NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1973 Fixes bug 943.
1974
b72aab72
PP
1975PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1976 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1977
2fe76745
PP
1978PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1979 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1980
76aa570c
PP
1981PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1982 SQL string expansion failure details.
1983 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1984
f1e5fef5
PP
1985PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1986 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1987
4d805ee9
PP
1988PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1989 extern declarations in function scope.
1990 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1991
cd59ab18
PP
1992PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1993 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1994 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1995 a kernel bug).
1996
332f5cf3
PP
1997PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1998 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1999
29cfeb94
PP
2000PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2001 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2002
660242ad
PP
2003PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2004 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2005
bc4bc4c5
PP
2006PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2007 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2008
2e64baa9
NM
2009NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2010 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2011 Dennis Davis.
2012
4c04137d 2013PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2014
6bac1a9a
PP
2015PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2016
552193f0
NM
2017NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2018 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2019
1b587e48
TF
2020TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2021 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2022
aa097c4c 2023
8c07b69f
TF
2024Exim version 4.74
2025-----------------
2026
2027TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2028 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2029
c0ea85ab
TF
2030TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2031 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2032
0761d44e
TF
2033TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2034
0a349494
PP
2035DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2036 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2037 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2038
2039PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2040 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2041 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2042
fea24b2e
PP
2043PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2044 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2045 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2046 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2047
6545de78
PP
2048PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2049 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2050 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2051 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2052
1670ef10
PP
2053PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2054 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2055 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2056 arbitrary files.
2057
c0886197
PP
2058PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2059 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2060
b7487bce
PP
2061PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2062 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2063 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2064 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2065 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2066
8c07b69f 2067
97fd1e48 2068Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2069-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2070
2071PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2072 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2073 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2074
6901c596
PP
2075PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2076 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2077
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2078JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2079
77bb000f
PP
2080PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2081
a29e5231
PP
2082PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2083
ec5a0394 2084PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2085
55c75993
PP
2086PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2087
453a6645 2088PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2089 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2090 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2091 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2092
8544e77a
PP
2093PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2094 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2095 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2096 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2097 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2098
83e029d5
PP
2099PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2100
ed7f7860
PP
2101PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2102
7d9f747b
PP
2103PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2104
4b2241d2
PP
2105PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2106
10385c15
PP
2107PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2108
dbc4b90d
PP
2109PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2110
532be449
PP
2111PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2112
6a8de854 2113PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2114 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2115 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2116
5dc43717
JJ
2117JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2118
2119JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2120 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2121
3346ab01
PP
2122PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2123 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2124
491fab4c
PP
2125PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2126 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2127 Notification from John Horne.
2128
13eb9497
PP
2129PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2130 compatible.
2131
2132PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2133 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2134 it normally works.
2135
7f36d675
DW
2136DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2137 access.
2138
c1d94452
DW
2139DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2140 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2141 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2142
e2f5dc15
DW
2143DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2144 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2145 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2146 configuration file.
2147
cd25e41d
DW
2148DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2149 option (effectively making it always true).
2150
261dc43e
DW
2151DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2152 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2153
fa32850b
DW
2154DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2155 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2156
79d4bc3d
PP
2157PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2158 run-time user, instead of root.
2159
43236f35 2160PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2161 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2162
fb08281f
DW
2163DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2164 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2165 arguments.
3346ab01 2166
74935b98
DW
2167DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2168 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2169 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2170
90b6341f
DW
2171DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2172
57730b52
ML
2173NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2174
66581d1e 2175
465e92cf
JJ
2176Exim version 4.72
2177-----------------
2178
453a6645
PP
2179JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2180 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2181 typos
465e92cf 2182
453a6645
PP
2183JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2184 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2185 (Finput)
edae0343 2186
9bd3e22c
NM
2187NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2188 Patch from Alain Williams
2189
bb576ff7
NM
2190NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2191
5a1a5845
NM
2192NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2193 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2194
981a9fad
NM
2195NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2196 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2197
7fc497ee
NM
2198NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2199
1a41defa
JJ
2200JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2201
a466095c 2202NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2203 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2204
94a6bd0b
NM
2205TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2206
2207TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2208
2209MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2210 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2211 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2212
c1b141a8
NM
2213NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2214 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2215
b26eacf1 2216NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2217 Patch by Simon Arlott
2218
179c5980 2219PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2220 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2221
9bd3e22c 2222
7c6d71af
NM
2223Exim version 4.71
2224-----------------
2225
7d9f747b 2226TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2227
f013fb92
NM
2228NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2229
0eb8eedd
NM
2230NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2231
663ee6d9
NM
2232NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2233
177ebd9b
NM
2234NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2235
7c6d71af 2236
210f147e
NM
2237Exim version 4.70
2238-----------------
2239
cdd3bb85 2240TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2241 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2242
2243TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2244 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2245 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2246
2247TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2248 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2249 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2250
2251TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2252 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2253
210f147e
NM
2254NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2255 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2256 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2257 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2258
deafd5b3
NM
2259NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2260 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2261 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2262
089793a4
TF
2263TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2264
5f16ca82
TF
2265TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2266
dae9d94e 2267NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2268 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2269
7d9f747b 2270NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2271
06864c44
TF
2272TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2273 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2274 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2275 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2276
65a7d8c3 2277NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2278 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2279
23510047 2280TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2281
7d9f747b 2282NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2283
7d8eec3a 2284NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2285 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2286
89dec7b6
TF
2287TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2288 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2289
a99de90c
TF
2290TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2291 that they are available at delivery time.
2292
e2803e40
TF
2293TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2294
7199e1ee
TF
2295TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2296 incoming_port log selectors.
2297
e276e04b
TF
2298TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2299 setting expands to an empty string.
2300
ce552449 2301NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2302 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2303
e765a0f1 2304NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2305 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2306
4f054c63 2307NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2308 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2309
7d9f747b
PP
2310NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2311 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2312
7d9f747b
PP
2313NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2314 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2315
b52bc06e 2316NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2317 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2318
447de4b0
NM
2319NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2320
4c69d561 2321NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2322 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2323
d5c39246 2324NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2325 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2326
0b23848a
TK
2327TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2328
8f3414a1 2329NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2330 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2331
fb6f955d
NM
2332NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2333
2334NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2335
7d9f747b
PP
2336NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2337 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2338
7d9f747b
PP
2339NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2340 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2341
7d9f747b
PP
2342NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2343 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2344
7d9f747b
PP
2345NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2346 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2347
7d9f747b
PP
2348NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2349 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2350
7d9f747b
PP
2351NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2352 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2353
7d9f747b
PP
2354NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2355 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2356
7d9f747b 2357NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2358 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2359
7d9f747b 2360NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2361
7d9f747b
PP
2362NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2363 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2364
7d9f747b 2365NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2366
7d9f747b 2367NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2368
7d9f747b 2369NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2370
7d9f747b 2371NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2372
17792b53 2373NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2374 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2375
7d9f747b
PP
2376NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2377 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2378
91576cec 2379NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2380 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2381
7d9f747b
PP
2382NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2383 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2384
7d9f747b 2385NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2386
7d9f747b 2387NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2388
7d9f747b 2389NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2390
7d9f747b 2391NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2392
deafd5b3 2393
47db1125
NM
2394Exim version 4.69
2395-----------------
2396
4b3504d0
TK
2397TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2398 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2399 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2400
2401 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2402 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2403 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2404 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2405 build errors in sieve.c.
2406
81ea09ca
NM
2407NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2408 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2409 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2410
f13cddcb
SC
2411SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2412
7d9f747b 2413NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2414
7d9f747b 2415NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2416
7d9f747b 2417NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2418
2419
eb4c0de6
PH
2420Exim version 4.68
2421-----------------
2422
2423PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2424
6a3bceb1
PH
2425PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2426 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2427 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2428 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2429 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2430 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2431 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2432 for iplsearch lookups.
2433
2434 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2435 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2436 previously such lookups could never work.
2437
4c04137d 2438 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2439 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2440 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2441
2e30fa9d
TK
2442TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2443 version.
2444
0806a9c5
MH
2445MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2446 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2447 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2448 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2449 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2450 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2451
ae276964
TK
2452TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2453 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2454
0f2cbd1b
MH
2455MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2456 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2457 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2458 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2459 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2460 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2461
2b85bce7
PH
2462PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2463 local_scan API.
2464
93655c46
PH
2465PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2466
6c512171
PH
2467PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2468 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2469 encrypted.
2470
2471PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2472 by clients under certain conditions.
2473
aa6dc513
PH
2474PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2475 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2476
a96603a0
PH
2477PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2478
8f240103
PH
2479PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2480 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2481
2482PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2483
d677b2f2
PH
2484PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2485
d52120f2
PH
2486PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2487
64f2600a
PH
2488PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2489 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2490
8669f003
PH
2491PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2492
a4dc33a8
PH
2493PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2494 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2495
d6a60c0f
PH
2496PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2497
8f128379
PH
2498PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2499
8932dffe
PH
2500PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2501 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2502 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2503 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2504
ddea74fa 2505PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2506 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2507 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2508
ddea74fa 2509PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2510 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2511
ddea74fa
PH
2512PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2513
ce9f225c
PH
2514PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2515
19897d52
PH
2516PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2517
bc64a74d
PH
2518PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2519 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2520 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2521
eb4c0de6 2522
b4ed4da0
PH
2523Exim version 4.67
2524-----------------
2525
22ad45c9
MH
2526MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2527 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2528 Jan Srzednicki.
2529
b4ed4da0
PH
2530PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2531 issue a MAIL command.
2532
431b7361
PH
2533PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2534
2535 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2536
2537 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2538 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2539 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2540 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2541 item. This has been fixed.
2542
2543PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2544 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2545
83da1223
PH
2546PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2547 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2548
54fc8428
PH
2549PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2550 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2551 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2552
34c5e8dd
SC
2553SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2554
bbe15da8
PH
2555PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2556 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2557 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2558 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2559 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2560
0e8a9471
MH
2561MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2562 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2563 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2564
f0872424
PH
2565PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2566 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2567 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2568 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2569
b01dd148
PH
2570PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2571
6bf342e1
PH
2572PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2573
273f34d0
PH
2574PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2575 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2576 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2577 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2578 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2579
cf8b11a5
PH
2580PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2581
41c7c167
PH
2582PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2583 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2584 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2585 values).
2586
9c57cbc0
PH
2587PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2588
f3f065bb
PH
2589PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2590
047bdd8c
PH
2591PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2592
0ce9abe6
PH
2593PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2594
0e22dfd1
PH
2595PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2596
4c590bd1
PH
2597PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2598 no_callout_flush is set.
2599
09945f1e
PH
2600PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2601 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2602 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2603 fixed.
2604
c51b8e75
PH
2605PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2606
e28326d8 2607PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2608 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2609 other ACL rejections are.
2610
75b1493f
PH
2611PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2612 with slight modification.
2613
7c5214ec
PH
2614PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2615 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2616
4311097e
PH
2617PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2618 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2619 connection.
2620
29f89cad
PH
2621PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2622 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2623
5e687460
SC
2624SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2625
c3611384
PH
2626PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2627 expansion side effects.
2628
5a11a7b4
PH
2629PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2630 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2631 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2632 be the same.
2633
0e20aff9
MH
2634MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2635 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2636 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2637
ca86f471
PH
2638PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2639 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2640 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2641 were accidentally chopped off.
2642
a14e5636
PH
2643PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2644 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2645 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2646 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2647 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2648 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2649 pipelining has not been advertised.
2650
ec95d1a6
PH
2651PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2652
42855d71
PH
2653PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2654 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2655 This has been fixed.
2656
57c2c631
PH
2657PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2658 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2659 reported on Solaris.
2660
58c01c94
PH
2661PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2662 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2663 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2664 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2665 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2666 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2667 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2668
dee5a20a
PH
2669PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2670 cpus.
2671
d2ee6114
PH
2672PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2673
b2d5182b
PH
2674PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2675
79749a79
PH
2676PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2677 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2678 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2679 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2680 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2681 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2682
c456d9bb
PH
2683PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2684 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2685 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2686 host_all_ignored option.
2687
cd9868ec
PH
2688PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2689 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2690 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2691 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2692 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2693 is what is supposed to happen).
2694
ebeaf996
PH
2695PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2696 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2697 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2698 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2699 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2700 uses the Exim user.
2701
2679d413
PH
2702PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2703 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2704 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2705 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2706 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2707 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2708 users.
2709
84024b72
PH
2710PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2711
8005d38e
SC
2712SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2713 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2714 (Jez Hancock).
2715 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2716 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2717
3298c6c6
SC
2718SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2719
a43a27c5
PH
2720PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2721
58eb016e 2722PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2723 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2724 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2725 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2726 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2727 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2728 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2729 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2730 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2731 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2732 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2733
b43a74ea
PH
2734PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2735 advertised in response to EHLO.
2736
b4ed4da0 2737
5dd1517f
PH
2738Exim version 4.66
2739-----------------
2740
2741PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2742 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2743
2744 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2745 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2746
2747 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2748 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2749 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2750
2751 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2752 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2753 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2754 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2755 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2756
2757
93cfa765
TK
2758Exim version 4.65
2759-----------------
2760
2761TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2762 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2763 versions. (#438)
2764
d6066548
MH
2765MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2766 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2767 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2768
4362ff0d
PH
2769PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2770 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2771 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2772 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2773 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2774 rather than extend the field.
2775
93cfa765 2776
944e9e9c
TF
2777Exim version 4.64
2778-----------------
aa41d2de 2779
21d74bd9
TK
2780TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2781 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2782 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2783 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2784 these files.
2785
2786TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2787 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2788 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2789
2790TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2791 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2792 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2793
2794TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2795 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2796 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2797 in the field name.
2798
2b1c6e3a
PH
2799PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2800 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2801 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2802 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2803 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2804 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2805 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2806 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2807 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2808 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2809 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2810
1f872c80
PH
2811PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2812 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2813
2814PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2815 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2816 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2817 ignores EPIPE as well.
2818
d203e649
PH
2819PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2820 (quoted-printable decoding).
2821
cc2ed8f7 2822PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2823 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2824
ddfcd446
PH
2825PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2826
d45b1de8
PH
2827PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2828
2829PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2830
38a0a95f 2831PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2832 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2833
a2405d83
JJ
2834JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2835 in 4.64-PH/09.
2836
2837JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2838 miscellaneous code fixes
2839
6ea85e9a
PH
2840PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2841 rejections.
2842
26da7e20
PH
2843PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2844 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2845 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2846 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2847 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2848 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2849 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2850 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2851
14aa5a05 2852PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2853 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2854 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2855 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2856 function.
2857 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2858 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2859 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2860 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2861 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2862 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2863 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2864 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2865 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2866
ff75a1f7
PH
2867PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2868 decoding.
2869
e6f6568e
PH
2870PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2871 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2872 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2873 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2874 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2875 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2876 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2877 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2878
d6f6e0dc
PH
2879PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2880 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2881 list.
2882
322050c2
PH
2883PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2884 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2885 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2886 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2887 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2888 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2889 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2890 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2891 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2892 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2893 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2894 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2895 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2896
08955dd3
PH
2897PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2898 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2899 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2900 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2901 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2902 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2903 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2904
1eccaa59
PH
2905PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2906 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2907 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2908 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2909 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2910 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2911 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2912 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2913 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2914 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2915
602e59e5
PH
2916PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2917 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2918 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2919 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2920 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2921
411ef850
PH
2922PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2923 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2924 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2925 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2926 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2927 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2928 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2929
7befa435
PH
2930PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2931 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2932 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2933 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2934 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2935 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2936 been verified.
2937
48da4259 2938PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2939 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2940 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2941 and authorization.)
2942
48da4259
PH
2943PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2944 if any retry times were supplied.
2945
d1d5595c
PH
2946PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2947 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2948 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2949
0ef732d9
PH
2950PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2951
328895cc
PH
2952PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2953
fd700877
PH
2954PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2955 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2956 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2957 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2958 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2959 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2960
8dce1a6f
PH
2961PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2962 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2963
17af4a17
PH
2964PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2965 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2966 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2967
2968PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2969 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2970 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2971 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2972 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2973 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2974 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2975 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2976 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2977
2978 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2979 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2980 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2981 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2982 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2983 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2984 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2985 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2986 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2987
2988 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2989 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2990 hammering the server.
2991
c1114884
PH
2992PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2993 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2994
7a0743eb
PH
2995PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2996
0d85fa3f
PH
2997PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2998 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2999 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3000
1bf43b78
PH
3001PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3002 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3003 one case where this was not true.
3004
520de300
PH
3005PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3006 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3007 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3008 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3009 fails.
3010
48c7f9e2
PH
3011PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3012 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3013 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3014 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3015 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3016 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3017 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3018 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3019 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3020 smtp transport.
3021
99ea1c86
PH
3022PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3023 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3024 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3025 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3026
a2042e78
PH
3027PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3028 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3029
4fbcfc2e
PH
3030PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3031 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3032 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3033
aa41d2de
PH
3034PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3035
af561417
PH
3036PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3037
3cc66b45
PH
3038PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3039
194cc0e4
PH
3040PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3041 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3042 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3043 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3044
a401ddaa
PH
3045PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3046 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3047
4e88a19f
PH
3048PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3049 be meaningful with "accept".
3050
d7d7b289
SC
3051SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3052 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3053
3054SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3055 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3056 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3057
3058SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3059 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3060 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3061 there is data to show.
3062 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3063
3064SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3065 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3066 as well as the number of messages.
3067
3068SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3069 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3070 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3071
3072SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3073 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3074 have a flag are now skipped.
3075
3076SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3077 Added the -emptyok flag.
3078
3079SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3080 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3081
0ea2a468
JJ
3082JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3083 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3084 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3085
3086JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3087 match 4.64-PH/13
3088
3089JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3090 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3091
3092JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3093
3094JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3095 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3096
8a10f5a4
PH
3097PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3098
30e18802
PH
3099PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3100 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3101 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3102 contravention of the specifications.
3103
55728a4f
PH
3104PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3105 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3106 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3107
d7837193
PH
3108PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3109 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3110 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3111
87054a31
PH
3112PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3113
ea2c01d2
MH
3114MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3115 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3116 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3117 some point in the past.
3118
e4fa6968
PH
3119PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3120 transport during callout processing was broken.
3121
56f5d9bd
PH
3122PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3123 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3124
922e1c28
PH
3125PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3126 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3127
21eb6e72
PH
3128PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3129 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3130
a0540757
PH
3131PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3132
944e9e9c 3133
478be7b0
SC
3134Exim version 4.63
3135-----------------
3136
3137SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3138 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3139
3140SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3141 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3142 there is data to show.
3143 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3144
3145SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3146 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3147
2b965a65
TF
3148TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3149 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3150
45b91596
PH
3151TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3152 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3153
c59f5781
TF
3154TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3155 submissions from trusted users.
3156
90fc3069
TF
3157TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3158 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3159
6083aca0
TF
3160TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3161 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3162 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3163 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3164 there is now a framework to start from.
3165
765b530f
PH
3166PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3167 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3168 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3169
4e167a8c
PH
3170PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3171
4608d683
PH
3172PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3173
b8dc3e4a
PH
3174PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3175
5418e93b
PH
3176PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3177 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3178 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3179
b4a9bda2
PH
3180PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3181 libradius.
3182
45b91596
PH
3183PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3184 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3185 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3186
5547e2c5
PH
3187PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3188 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3189 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3190 its arguments.
3191
dbcef0ea
PH
3192PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3193 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3194 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3195 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3196 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3197
25257489
PH
3198PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3199 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3200
c816d124
PH
3201PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3202
a9ccd69a
PH
3203PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3204 operations in malware.c.
3205
75fa1910
PH
3206PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3207 signatures.
3208
a7d7aa58
PH
3209PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3210 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3211 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3212 all.
3213
42119b09
PH
3214PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3215 statements to "add_header".
3216
41609df5
PH
3217PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3218 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3219
a5bd321b
PH
3220PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3221 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3222 latter.
3223
e85a7ad5 3224PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3225 so that it is now:
3226
e85a7ad5
PH
3227 ${if or { \
3228 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3229 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3230 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3231 }{no}{yes}}
3232
e85a7ad5
PH
3233 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3234 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3235
d8fe1c03
PH
3236PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3237 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3238
16282d2b
PH
3239PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3240 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3241 any possible encoding problems.
3242
35d40a98
PH
3243PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3244 but not after initializing Perl.
3245
034d99ab
PH
3246PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3247 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3248 apparently, which is not desirable.
3249
6ec97b1b
PH
3250PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3251 queries.
3252
e22ca4ac
JJ
3253JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3254 --not options
3255
3256JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3257
33d73e3b
PH
3258PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3259 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3260 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3261 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3262
9ecb03f3
PH
3263PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3264 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3265 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3266
084efe8d
PH
3267PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3268 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3269 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3270 0.12.
3271
366fc9f0
PH
3272PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3273 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3274 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3275 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3276 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3277
c59f5781 3278
c887c79e
TF
3279Exim version 4.62
3280-----------------
3281
3282TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3283 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3284
1cce3af8
PH
3285PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3286 patch).
3287
afb3eaaf
PH
3288PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3289 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3290 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3291 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3292 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3293 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3294 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3295 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3296 451 error is used.
3297
e173618b
PH
3298PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3299
dd16e114
PH
3300PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3301 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3302 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3303
f7fd3850
PH
3304PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3305 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3306 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3307 odd errors.
3308
d87df92c
PH
3309PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3310 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3311
7e9f683d
PH
3312PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3313 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3314 option (which defaults to 0600).
3315
bfad5236
PH
3316PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3317
01c490df
PH
3318PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3319 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3320 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3321 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3322 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3323 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3324 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3325
d6629cdc
PH
3326PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3327
1cce3af8 3328
214e2000
PH
3329Exim version 4.61
3330-----------------
3331
3332PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3333 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3334 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3335 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3336 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3337 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3338 addresses as local.
3339
f9daeae0
PH
3340PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3341 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3342
7e66e54d
PH
3343PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3344
c8ea1597
PH
3345PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3346 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3347 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3348 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3349 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3350 grumble.
3351
911f6fde
PH
3352PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3353 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3354
47ca6d6c
PH
3355PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3356 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3357 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3358 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3359 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3360
ed0e9820
PH
3361PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3362 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3363 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3364 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3365
eff37e47
PH
3366PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3367 be the same on different OS.
3368
1921d2ea
PH
3369PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3370 testing.
3371
b3f69ca8
JJ
3372JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3373 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3374
3375JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3376 in 4.61-PH/06
3377
424a1c63
PH
3378PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3379 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3380 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3381 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3382 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3383 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3384 bounce message.
3385
7a100415
PH
3386PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3387 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3388 when Exim was called.
3389
19b9dc85
PH
3390PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3391 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3392
309bd837
PH
3393PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3394 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3395 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3396 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3397
59e82a2a
PH
3398PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3399 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3400 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3401 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3402 changes:
3403
3404 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3405 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3406 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3407
3408 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3409 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3410 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3411
9edc04ce
PH
3412PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3413 feature).
3414
1349e1e5
PH
3415PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3416 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3417 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3418 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3419 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3420 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3421 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3422 values from the SRV records were lost.
3423
ea49d0e1
PH
3424PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3425 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3426 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3427
064a94c9
PH
3428PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3429 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3430 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3431
727071f8
PH
3432PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3433 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3434 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3435 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3436 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3437 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3438 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3439 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3440 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3441 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3442
f78eb7c6
PH
3443PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3444 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3445 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3446
21c28500
PH
3447PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3448 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3449
3450PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3451 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3452 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3453 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3454 is given.
3455
1688f43b
PH
3456PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3457 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3458 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3459
3460PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3461 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3462 PH/23 above applies.
3463
9675b384
PH
3464PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3465 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3466 (for which there is an explicit test).
3467
6a3f1455
PH
3468PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3469
dac79d3e
PH
3470PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3471 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3472 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3473 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3474 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3475
5977a0b3
PH
3476PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3477 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3478 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3479 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3480
c91535f3
PH
3481PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3482 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3483 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3484
0d46a8c8
PH
3485PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3486
278c6e6c
PH
3487PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3488
2cbb4081
PH
3489PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3490 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3491 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3492
3eef829e
PH
3493PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3494 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3495 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3496 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3497 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3498
1ab95fa6
PH
3499PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3500 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3501 the message gets confusing).
3502
230205fc
PH
3503PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3504 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3505 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3506 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3507
75e0e026
PH
3508PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3509 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3510 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3511 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3512 same order.
3513
3514PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3515 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3516 the different processes.
3517
145396a6
PH
3518PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3519
3cd34f13
PH
3520PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3521
11121d3d
JJ
3522JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3523 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3524
3525JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3526 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3527
3528JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3529 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3530 messages matching specified criteria.
3531
8def5aaf
PH
3532PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3533
929ba01c
PH
3534PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3535 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3536
2632889e
PH
3537PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3538 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3539 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3540 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3541 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3542 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3543 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3544 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3545 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3546 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3547
944a9c55
PH
3548PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3549 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3550 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3551
4a23603b
PH
3552PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3553
4730f942
PH
3554PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3555 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3556 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3557 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3558 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3559 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3560 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3561 the variable.
3562
30dba1e6
PH
3563PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3564 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3565
382afc6b
PH
3566PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3567
a86229cf
PH
3568PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3569
50c99ba6
PH
3570PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3571
d35e429d
PH
3572PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3573 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3574 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3575 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3576 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3577 size of the count of files.
3578
f90d018c
PH
3579PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3580
75def545
PH
3581PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3582 used in LMTP mode:
3583
3584 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3585 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3586 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3587 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3588
3589 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3590 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3591 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3592
3593PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3594 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3595 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3596 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3597 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3598
c46782ef
PH
3599PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3600 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3601
71fafd95
PH
3602PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3603 will now be deprecated.
3604
2c5db4fd
PH
3605PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3606
9cf6b11a
JJ
3607JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3608 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3609 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3610
3611JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3612 with very large, slow to parse queues
3613
3614JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3615
3616JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3617
898d150f
PH
3618PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3619 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3620 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3621 SMTP output lines.
3622
46218253
PH
3623PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3624 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3625 Sieve code now uses this.
3626
e97957bc
PH
3627PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3628 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3629
81e509d7
PH
3630PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3631 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3632
3d240ff7
PH
3633PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3634
b37c4101
PH
3635PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3636 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3637 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3638 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3639 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3640
79378e0f
PH
3641PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3642 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3643 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3644 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3645
e49c7bb4
PH
3646PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3647
d114ec46
PH
3648PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3649
f3d7df6c
PH
3650PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3651 is preferred over IPv4.
3652
715ab376
PH
3653PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3654 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3655 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3656 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3657 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3658 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3659 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3660
6b31b150
PH
3661PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3662 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3663 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3664
3665PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3666
d515a917
PH
3667PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3668 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3669 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3670 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3671 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3672 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3673 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3674 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3675 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3676 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3677 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3678
9b8fadde
PH
3679PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3680 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3681 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3682
214e2000 3683
5de37277
PH
3684Exim version 4.60
3685-----------------
3686
cc38ddbf
PH
3687PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3688
3689 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3690 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3691
3692 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3693 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3694 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3695
72fdd6ae
PH
3696PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3697
3698 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3699 not a single digit.
3700
3701 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3702 string.
3703
3704 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3705 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3706 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3707 silly things.
3708
3709 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3710 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3711
3712 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3713 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3714
cb741023
PH
3715PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3716 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3717 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3718
f174f16e
PH
3719PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3720 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3721
c25242d7
PH
3722PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3723 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3724
3725 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3726
3727 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3728 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3729 this:
3730
3731 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3732
82c19f95
PH
3733PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3734 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3735 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3736 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3737 identical. For example:
3738
3739 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3740
3741 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3742 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3743 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3744
d7ffbc12
PH
3745PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3746 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3747 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3748 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3749
9f526266
PH
3750PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3751 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3752 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3753 message.
3754
87fcc8b9
PH
3755PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3756
3757 o fixes some comments
3758 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3759 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3760 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3761 and documents the missing references header update
3762
3763 and most important:
3764
3765 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3766 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3767 result)
3768
456682f5
PH
3769PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3770 Electronic Mail") by including:
3771
3772 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3773
3774 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3775 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3776 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3777 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3778 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3779
3780 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3781
3782 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3783
3784 The auto-replied keyword:
3785
3786 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3787 message by an automatic process,
3788
3789 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3790
3791 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3792 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3793
3794 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3795 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3796 other messages.
3797
3e46c1aa
PH
3798PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3799 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3800
49826d12
PH
3801PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3802
eba0c039
PH
3803PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3804 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3805 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3806
a0d6ba8a
PH
3807PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3808 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3809 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3810
f0917727
PH
3811PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3812 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3813 and treats the condition as false.
3814
096fee00
PH
3815PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3816
024bd3c2
PH
3817PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3818 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3819 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3820 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3821 not changing the active code.
3822
3823 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3824 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3825
3826 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3827 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3828
df199fec
PH
3829PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3830 (Bugzilla #53).
3831
d27f1df3
PH
3832PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3833 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3834 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3835 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3836 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3837 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3838 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3839 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3840 the text comparison.
3841
96776534
PH
3842PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3843 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3844 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3845 The same fix has been applied.
3846
5de37277 3847
9a799bc0
PH
3848Exim version 4.54
3849-----------------
3850
3851PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3852 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3853 It now does.
3854
99a4b039
PH
3855PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3856 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3857
3858PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3859
4b233853
PH
3860PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3861 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3862 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3863 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3864 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3865
8857ccfd
PH
3866TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3867 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3868 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3869 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3870 or /domain=).
3871
433a2980
PH
3872PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3873 testing suite.
3874
3e46c1aa 3875
9a799bc0 3876
e3a311ba
TK
3877Exim version 4.53
3878-----------------
3879
3880TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3881 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3882
13b685f9
PH
3883PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3884
395ff96d
PH
3885PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3886
5b68f6e4
PH
3887PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3888 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3889 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3890
1ab52c69
PH
3891PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3892 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3893 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3894
b07e6aa3
PH
3895PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3896 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3897 operating systems.
3898
254e032f
PH
3899PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3900 ${stat: expansion item.
3901
3af76a81
PH
3902PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3903 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3904
2548ba04
PH
3905PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3906 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3907 file for comments.
3908
b6c6011d
PH
3909PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3910
cf39cf57
PH
3911PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3912 setting.
3913
f1513293
PH
3914PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3915 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3916
727549a4
PH
3917TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3918
af46795e
PH
3919PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3920 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3921 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3922 the end of the subprocess.
3923
d7b47fd0
PH
3924PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3925 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3926 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3927 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3928 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3929
ee744174
JJ
3930JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3931
b582ab87
PH
3932TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3933
41a13e0a
PH
3934PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3935 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3936
f625cc5a
PH
3937PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3938
3939PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3940
21f7af35
PH
3941PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3942 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3943 HP-UX compiler.
3944
31480e42
PH
3945PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3946
2d280592
PH
3947PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3948 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3949 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3950
7cd1141b
PH
3951PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3952 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3953
3954PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3955 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3956
750af86e
PH
3957PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3958 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3959
3960 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3961 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3962
3963 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3964 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3965 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3966 contributed by a Radius user.
3967
3968PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3969 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3970
4304270b
TK
3971TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3972 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3973
750af86e
PH
3974PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3975 available.
3976
64ffc24f
PH
3977PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3978 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3979 received.
3980
5dd9625b
PH
3981PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3982 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3983 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3984 header lines when this was not necessary.
3985
5591031b
PH
3986PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3987
ba18e66a
PH
3988PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3989 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3990 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3991 exists".
3992
9cec981f
PH
3993PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3994 -bV or -d is used.
3995
aa2b5c79
PH
3996PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3997 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3998 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3999 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4000
48a53b7f
PH
4001PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4002
1c59d63b
PH
4003PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4004
671012da
TK
4005TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4006
1509d3a8
PH
4007PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4008
4009PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4010 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4011 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4012 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4013 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4014 settings.
4015
4016PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4017
2fe1a124
PH
4018PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4019 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4020 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4021 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4022 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4023 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4024 which is clearly wrong.
4025
8800895a
PH
4026PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4027
ccfdb010
PH
4028PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4029 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4030 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4031 subsequently added.
4032
1130bfb0
PH
4033PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4034 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4035
ebcb507f
PH
4036PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4037
c35e155c
PH
4038PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4039 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4040
95d1f782
PH
4041PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4042 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4043
fd6de02e
PH
4044PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4045 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4046
58de37c5
PH
4047PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4048 recipients, not senders.
4049
261cf466
TF
4050TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4051 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4052
3ee512ff
PH
4053PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4054
e08c430f
PH
4055PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4056
bef5a11f
PH
4057PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4058 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4059 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4060 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4061
7546de58
TF
4062TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4063
e5d5a95f
TF
4064TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4065 clock is set back in time.
4066
2e88a017
TF
4067TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4068 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4069
a5f65aa4
TF
4070TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4071 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4072
e7726cbf
PH
4073PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4074 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4075 (see PH/47 above).
4076
a7fdad5b
TF
4077TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4078 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4079 header rewrites.
4080
6af56900
PH
4081PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4082 type ("H").
4083
0925ede6
PH
4084PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4085
66afa403
TF
4086TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4087 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4088 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4089
0154e85a
TF
4090TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4091 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4092 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4093 helo verification defer as a failure.
4094
16f12c76
PH
4095PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4096 actual error message.
4097
bbe902f0 4098
e5a9dba6
PH
4099Exim version 4.52
4100-----------------
4101
4102TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4103
22c3b60b
PH
4104PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4105 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4106 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4107 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4108
06a9b4b5
PH
4109TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4110
c1ac6996
PH
4111PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4112 can still be requested.
4113
9c7a242c
PH
4114PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4115 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4116 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4117 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4118
87ba3f5f
PH
4119TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4120 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4121 circumstances, but probably never did.
4122
4123PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4124 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4125 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4126 in the header line.
4127
29aba418
TF
4128TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4129
fe0dab11
TF
4130TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4131 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4132
11d337a4
TK
4133TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4134
4135TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4136
415c8f3b
PH
4137PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4138 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4139 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4140 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4141 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4142 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4143
958541e9
PH
4144PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4145 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4146 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4147 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4148 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4149 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4150
c206415f
TK
4151TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4152 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4153
2a4be8f9
PH
4154PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4155 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4156
1cba11c5
SC
4157SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4158 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4159
4c04137d 4160SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4161
4162SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4163
4164SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4165
4166SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4167
4168SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4169
4170SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4171
1005d00e
TK
4172TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4173
4174TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4175 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4176 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4177
4178TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4179 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4180 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4181 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4182
9b4768fa
PH
4183PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4184 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4185 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4186
4187PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4188 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4189 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4190 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4191
0d7eb84a
PH
4192PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4193 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4194 to be made).
4195
4196PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4197 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4198 should work with maildirs and everything.
4199
40727bee
TK
4200TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4201 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4202
554d2369
TF
4203TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4204 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4205
1f922db1
PH
4206PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4207 function for BDB 4.3.
4208
ef213c3b
PH
4209PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4210
8ac170f3
PH
4211PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4212 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4213 involved.
4214
b1c749bb
PH
4215PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4216 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4217 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4218 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4219 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4220 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4221
4aac9b49
PH
4222PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4223 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4224 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4225 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4226 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4227 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4228 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4229 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4230
294520c8
TK
4231TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4232 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4233 details.
4234
5bd022fe
PH
4235PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4236 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4237
90e9ce59
PH
4238PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4239 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4240 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4241 test. It is now used for both.
4242
5ea81592
PH
4243PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4244 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4245 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4246 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4247 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4248 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4249
c6c2dc1d
PH
4250PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4251 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4252 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4253 string_vformat().
4254
fffffe4c
PH
4255PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4256 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4257 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4258
9a26b6b2
PH
4259PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4260 experimental DomainKeys support:
4261
4262 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4263 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4264 the control was given.
4265
4266 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4267
4aee0225
PH
4268PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4269
32d668a5
PH
4270PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4271
8187c3f3
PH
4272PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4273 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4274 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4275 db.h files).
4276
ff790e47 4277PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4278 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4279 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4280 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4281 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4282 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4283 course.
ff790e47 4284
5417f6d1
PH
4285PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4286 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4287 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4288 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4289 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4290 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4291
59cf8544
PH
4292PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4293 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4294 do -d+all out of habit.
4295
e7ad8a65
PH
4296PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4297 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4298 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4299
ade42478
PH
4300PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4301 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4302 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4303 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4304 record types that Exim uses.
4305
182ad5cf
PH
4306PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4307 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4308 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4309 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4310 non-existent file that was broken.
4311
b0d9fc80
TK
4312TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4313 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4314
4315TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4316 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4317 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4318
4319TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4320
47c7a64a
PH
4321PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4322 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4323 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4324 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4325 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4326 same time.
4327
a388bce4
SC
4328SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4329 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4330 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4331 at a slight CPU cost.
4332
4333SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4334 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4335
4336SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4337 by Marc Sherman.
4338
0793e4ed
SC
4339SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4340
c58b88df
PH
4341PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4342 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4343
e7ad8a65 4344
7982096b
PH
4345Exim version 4.51
4346-----------------
4347
1a46a8c5
PH
4348TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4349 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4350
2f079f46 4351TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4352
4353TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4354
4355PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4356 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4357
4358PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4359 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4360 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4361 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4362 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4363 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4364 file.
4365
4366PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4367 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4368 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4369 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4370 these two options.
4371
4372PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4373 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4374 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4375 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4376 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4377 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4378 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4379 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4380
4381PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4382 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4383
4384PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4385 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4386 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4387 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4388 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4389 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4390
4391PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4392 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4393 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4394 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4395
4396PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4397 Finch).
4398
4399PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4400 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4401
49c2d5ea
PH
4402PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4403 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4404 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4405 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4406 message.
49c2d5ea 4407
bf759a8b
PH
4408PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4409
83364d30
PH
4410PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4411 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4412
7999bbd7
PH
4413PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4414 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4415 to what was transported.)
4416
7dbf77c9
PH
4417TF/01 Added $received_time.
4418
74e0617f
PH
4419PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4420 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4421 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4422 spamd_address settings.
4423
2f079f46
PH
4424PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4425 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4426 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4427 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4428 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4429
8c841523
PH
4430PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4431
7766a4f0
PH
4432PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4433 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4434 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4435 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4436 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4437
8b417f2c
PH
4438PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4439 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4440
901f42cb
PH
4441PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4442 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4443 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4444 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4445 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4446 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4447 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4448 for failure.
4449
f9b9210e
PH
4450PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4451 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4452 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4453 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4454 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4455 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4456 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4457 "input=".
4458
54cdb463
PH
4459PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4460
cf00dad6
PH
4461PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4462 driver and ACL definitions.
4463
acb1b346
PH
4464PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4465 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4466
c5ddb310
PH
4467PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4468 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4469 understands it better than I do:
4470
4471 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4472 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4473
4474 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4475 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4476 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4477 => three warnings about OTP not working
4478 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4479
4480 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4481 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4482 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4483 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4484 for each call.)
4485 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4486 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4487
4488 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4489 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4490 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4491
31619da6
PH
4492PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4493 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4494 specified.
4495
bebaf0fc
PH
4496PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4497 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4498 "Linux".
4499
475fe28a
PH
4500PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4501 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4502 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4503
4504 warn !verify = sender
4505 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4506
4507 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4508 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4509
7e8bec7a
PH
4510PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4511
4512 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4513 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4514
4515 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4516 nomenclature these days.)
4517
e4a89c47
PH
4518PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4519 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4520
5ca2a9a1
PH
4521PH/30 In these circumstances:
4522 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4523 . First host does not offer TLS;
4524 . First host accepts first address;
4525 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4526 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4527 . Second host accepts second address.
4528 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4529 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4530 address.
7e8bec7a 4531
c688b954
PH
4532PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4533 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4534 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4535 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4536 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4537
fed77020
PH
4538PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4539 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4540
7fe1560f
PH
4541PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4542 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4543
ebb6e6d5
PH
4544PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4545 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4546 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4547
9c4e8f60
PH
4548PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4549 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4550 overlooked.
4551
4552PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4553
d7174846
PH
4554PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4555 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4556 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4557 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4558 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4559 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4560 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4561
4562 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4563 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4564 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4565 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4566 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4567
4568 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4569 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4570 routed further.
4571
cfe75fc3
PH
4572PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4573 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4574 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4575 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4576 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4577 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4578
be22d70e
PH
4579PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4580
0612b098
PH
4581PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4582 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4583 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4584 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4585 printable escape sequences.
4586
2e0c1448
PH
4587PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4588 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4589 body only.
4590
447d236c
PH
4591PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4592 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4593 are as follows:
4594
4595 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4596 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4597 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4598 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4599 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4600
4601 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4602 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4603 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4604
d20976dc
PH
4605PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4606
f656d135
PH
4607PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4608 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4609 play with."
4610
2e2a30b4
PH
4611PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4612 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4613 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4614 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4615 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4616 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4617 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4618 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4619 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4620 the log output.
4621
9176e9f0
PH
4622PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4623 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4624 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4625 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4626 "make".
4627
7982096b 4628
bbe902f0
PH
4629A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4630----------------------------------------
4631
4632Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4633changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4634needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4635in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4636that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4637release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4638from 4.43.
4639
4640I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
46414.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4642those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4643historical information.
4644
4645
f7b63901 4646Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4647-----------------
4648
5fe762f6
PH
4649 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4650
139059f6 4651 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4652 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4653
7086e875
PH
4654 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4655 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4656 place.
4657
35af9f61
PH
4658 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4659 filter fails to execute.
4660
b668c215
PH
4661 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4662 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4663 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4664 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4665 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4666
a494b1e1
PH
4667 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4668
4669 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4670 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4671 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4672 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4673
c5fcb476
PH
4674 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4675 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4676 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4677 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4678 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4679
69358f02
PH
4680 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4681
5be20824
PH
468210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4683
eb2c0248
PH
468411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4685 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4686 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4687 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4688
2a3eea10
PH
468912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4690 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4691 sender verification.
4692
469313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4694 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4695
23c7ff99
PH
469614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4697
4deaf07d
PH
469815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4699 connection timeout.
4700
926e1192
PH
470116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4702 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4703
650edc6f
PH
470417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4705 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4706
2c7db3f5
PH
470718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4708 information about exactly what failed.
4709
3d235903
PH
471019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4711
7c7ad977
PH
471220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4713 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4714 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4715
981756db
PH
471621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4717 It is now set to "smtps".
4718
d4eb88df
PH
471922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4720 ignore_target_hosts.
4721
472223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4723 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4724 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4725 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4726 "[x.x.x.x]".
4727
7d468ab8
PH
472824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4729 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4730 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4731
473225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4733 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4734 wake it up if nothing else does.
4735
62c0818f
PH
473626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4737 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4738 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4739 end up negative.
4740
26034054
PH
474127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4742 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4743
af66f652
PH
474428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4745
90af77f4
PH
474629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4747 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4748 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4749 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4750 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4751 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4752 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4753 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4754
d8ef3577
PH
475530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4756 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4757 than one IP address.
4758
5cb8cbc6
PH
475931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4760 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4761 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4762 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4763
14702f5b
PH
476432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4765 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4766 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4767 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4768 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4769 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4770
063b1e99
PH
477133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4772 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4773 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4774 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4775
652e1b65
PH
477634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4777 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4778 respected.
4779
6f0c9a4f
PH
478035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4781 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4782 $sender_host_address.
4783
33397d19
PH
478436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4785 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4786 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4787 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4788 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4789 very small.
4790
7bb56e1f
PH
479137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4792
4793 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4794 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4795
ea3bc19b
PH
4796 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4797 just the host names, not the priorities.
4798
4799 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4800 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4801 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4802
ea3bc19b 4803 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4804 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4805
0bcb2a0e
PH
480638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4807 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4808 domain.
4809
2ac0e484
PH
481039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4811
4e1fde53
PH
481240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4813 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4814
de365ded
PH
481541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4816 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4817 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4818
f05da2e8
PH
481942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4820
d6453af2
PH
482143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4822
f7b63901
PH
482344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4824
482545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4826 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4827 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4828 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4829 because the tests only now provoked it.
4830
a444213a
PH
483146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4832 (this can affect the format of dates).
4833
0ec020ea
PH
483447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4835 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4836 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4837 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4838
b1206957
PH
483948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4840
484149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4842 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4843 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4844 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4845
26dd5a95
PH
484650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4847 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4848 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4849
343b2385
PH
485051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4851 autoreply.
4852
1c5466b9
PH
485352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4854 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4855 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4856 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4857 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4858 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4859 is going on).
4860
55ee9ee3
PH
486153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4862 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4863 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4864 the line.
4865
d38f8232
PH
486654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4867 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4868 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4869
4870 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4871 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4872 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4873 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4874 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4875 so I produce this patch..."
4876
3295e65b
PH
4877 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4878 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4879 is not defined.
4880
7102e136
PH
488155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4882 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4883 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4884 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4885 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4886
3ca0ba97
PH
488756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4888
c2bcbe20
PH
488957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4890 long debug lines gets shown.
4891
18ce445d
PH
489258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4893 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4894
1f5b4c3d
PH
489559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4896
4897 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4898 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4899 of $primary_hostname.
4900
b975ba52
PH
490160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4902 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4903 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4904 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4905 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4906 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4907 by change 4.50/55 above.
4908
4909 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4910 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4911 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4912 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4913 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4914 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4915 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4916
491761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4918 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4919 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4920 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4921
17ffcae7
PH
492262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4923 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4924
d95f9fdb
PH
492563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4926 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4927 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4928 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4929 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4930
86b8287f
PH
493164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4932 This has been fixed.
4933
60dc5e56
PH
493465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4935 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4936 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4937 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4938 the caching.)
4939
533244af
PH
494066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4941
a5a28604
PH
494267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4943 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4944 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4945 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4946
7e634d24
PH
494768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4948 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4949
3e11c26b
PH
495069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4951 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4952 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4953
6729cf78
PH
495470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4955 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4956 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4957 message there.
4958
00f00ca5
PH
495971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4960 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4961 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4962
c9bdd01c
PH
496372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4964 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4965 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4966 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4967
d43194df
PH
496873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4969 during host lookups.
4970
fe5b5d0b
PH
497174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4972 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4973
4974 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4975
76a2d7ba
PH
497675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4977 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4978 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4979 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4980 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4981 background.
4982
498376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4984 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4985
04f7d5b9
PH
498677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4987 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4988 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4989
bc60667e
PH
499078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4991
bb6e88ff
PH
499279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4993 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4994 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4995 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4996 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4997 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4998 process earlier.
4999
1e70f85b
PH
500080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5001 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5002 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5003 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5004 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5005
500681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5007 tables).
5008
4e01f9d6
PH
500982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5010
1ee1cef2
PH
501183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5012 "vacation" handling.
5013
6e2b4ccc
PH
501484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5015 OS variants using glibc.
5016
8e669ac1
PH
501785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5018
495ae4b0 5019
bbe902f0
PH
5020----------------------------------------------------
5021See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5022----------------------------------------------------
5023
5024
5025Exim version 4.44
5026-----------------
5027
5028 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5029 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5030 transport
5031
5032 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5033 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5034 place.
5035
5036 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5037 filter fails to execute.
5038
5039 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5040 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5041 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5042 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5043 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5044
5045 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5046 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5047 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5048 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5049
5050 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5051 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5052 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5053 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5054 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5055
5056 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5057
5058 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5059 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5060 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5061 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5062
5063 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5064 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5065 sender verification.
5066
506710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5068 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5069
507011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5071 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5072
507312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5074 ignore_target_hosts.
5075
507613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5077 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5078 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5079 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5080 "[x.x.x.x]".
5081
508214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5083 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5084 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5085
508615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5087 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5088 wake it up if nothing else does.
5089
509016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5091 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5092 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5093 end up negative.
5094
509517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5096 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5097
ea3a6f44 509818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5099
510019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5101 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5102 empty pattern.
5103
510420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5105 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5106 one IP address.
5107
ea3a6f44
NM
510821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5109 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5110 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5111 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5112 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5113 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5114
ea3a6f44
NM
511522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5116 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5117 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5118
511923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5120 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5121 $sender_host_address.
5122
512324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5124
ea3a6f44
NM
512525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5126 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5127 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5128
512926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5130 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5131
ea3a6f44
NM
513227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5133 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5134
ea3a6f44
NM
513528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5136 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5137 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5138 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5139
514029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5141 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5142 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5143
ea3a6f44
NM
514430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5145 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5146 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5147 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5148
ea3a6f44
NM
514931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5150 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5151 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5152
ea3a6f44
NM
515331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5154 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5155
ea3a6f44
NM
515632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5157 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5158 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5159 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5160 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5161 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5162 is going on).
bbe902f0 5163
ea3a6f44
NM
516433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5165 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5166 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5167 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5168 CAN-2005-0021
5169
ea3a6f44
NM
517034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5171 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5172 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5173 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5174 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5175 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5176 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5177
5178 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5179 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5180 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5181 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5182 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5183 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5184 CAN-2005-0021
5185
ea3a6f44
NM
518635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5187 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5188 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5189 CAN-2005-0022
5190
ea3a6f44
NM
519136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5192 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5193 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5194 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5195 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5196
ea3a6f44
NM
519737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5198 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5199 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5200 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5201 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5202
ea3a6f44
NM
520338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5204 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5205 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5206 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5207 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5208
5209
495ae4b0
PH
5210Exim version 4.43
5211-----------------
5212
5213 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5214 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5215 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5216 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5217 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5218 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5219 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5220
5221 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5222 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5223 the delivery.
5224
5225 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5226
5227 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5228
5229 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5230 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5231 to local_scan().
5232
5233 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5234 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5235 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5236 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5237 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5238
5239 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5240 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5241
5242 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5243
5244 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5245
524610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5247 header_sender only.
5248
524911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5250 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5251
525212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5253 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5254 affecting debugging statements).
5255
525613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5257
525814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5259 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5260 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5261 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5262 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5263 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5264 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5265 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5266 after the received time, and all would be well.
5267
526815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5269 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5270 condition in an expansion string.
5271
527216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5273
527417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5275 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5276 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5277 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5278 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5279 job under whatever limits there are.
5280
528118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5282
528319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5284 space).
5285
528620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5287 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5288 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5289 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5290 return path is set.
5291
529221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5293 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5294 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5295 binary data in such strings.
5296
529722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5298
529923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5300 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5301 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5302 failure, which is pointless.
5303
530424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5305
530625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5307
530826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5309 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5310 Sender: header lines.
5311
531227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5313 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5314 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5315
531628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5317 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5318 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5319 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5320 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5321 happens.
5322
532329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5324 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5325 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5326 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5327 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5328
532930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5330 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5331 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5332 1024.
5333
533431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5335 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5336
533732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5338 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5339
534033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5341
534232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5343
534433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5345
534634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5347 syntax error.
5348
534935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5350
535136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5352
535337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5354 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5355 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5356 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5357
535838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5359 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5360
5361
5362Exim version 4.42
5363-----------------
5364
5365 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5366 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5367 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5368 it was not quoted.
5369 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5370 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5371 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5372 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5373 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5374 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5375
5376 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5377 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5378 verification failure".
5379
5380 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5381 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5382 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5383 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5384
5385 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5386 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5387 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5388 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5389 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5390 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5391 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5392 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5393 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5394 treated as a timeout.
5395
5396 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5397 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5398 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5399 not set for Exim filters).
5400
5401 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5402 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5403 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5404
5405 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5406
5407 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5408 try to make them clearer.
5409
5410 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5411 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5412
5413 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5414
5415 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5416
541710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5418 only the Cygwin environment.
5419
542011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5421 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5422 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5423 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5424 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5425
542612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5427 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5428 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5429 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5430 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5431 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5432 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5433
543413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5435 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5436
543714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5438
5439 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5440 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5441 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5442
5443 To: susanne@some.where
5444
5445 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5446 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5447 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5448 of addresses in From: header lines).
5449
5450 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5451 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5452 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5453
5454 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5455 treated as non-personal.
5456
5457 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5458 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5459
546015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5461
546216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5463
546417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5465 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5466 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5467
546818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5469 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5470
547119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5472 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5473 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5474 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5475 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5476 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5477
547820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5479 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5480 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5481 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5482 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5483 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5484 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5485 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5486
5487 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5488
548921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5490 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5491
549222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5493 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5494 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5495
549623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5497 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5498
549924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5500 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5501 rather than long int.
5502
550325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5504
550526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5506
5507
5508Exim version 4.41
5509-----------------
5510
5511 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5512 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5513 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5514 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5515 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5516 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5517
5518
5519Exim version 4.40
5520-----------------
5521
5522 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5523 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5524
5525 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5526 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5527 socklen_t is defined.
5528
5529 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5530 always exist.
5531
5532 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5533 configured.
5534
5535 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5536 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5537 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5538 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5539 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5540
5541 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5542 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5543 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5544 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5545
5546 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5547 of flapping under certain conditions.
5548
5549 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5550 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5551 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5552
5553 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5554
555510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5556
555711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5558 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5559 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5560 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5561
556212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5563 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5564 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5565 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5566 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5567 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5568 preserved with the message after it was received.
5569
557013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5571 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5572 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5573 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5574 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5575 test suite worked just fine.
5576
557714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5578 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5579 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5580
558115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5582 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5583 string.
5584
558516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5586 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5587 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5588 does not fully solve it.
5589
559017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5591 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5592 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5593 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5594 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5595
559618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5597 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5598 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5599
560019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5601 string, for example:
5602
5603 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5604
5605 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5606 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5607 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5608 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5609 the routers could not see them.
5610
561120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5612 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5613
561421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5615 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5616 output).
5617
561822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5619 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5620 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5621 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5622 that needed quoting.
5623
562423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5625 was not being matched caselessly.
5626
562724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5628 backslashes.
5629
563025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5631 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5632 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5633 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5634 when use_sender is false.
5635
563626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5637
563827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5639
564028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5641
564229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5643 the configuration file.
5644
564530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5646 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5647
564831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5649
565032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5651 bytes in the message body.
5652
565333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5654 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5655 delivery.
5656
565734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5658
565935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5660
566136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5662 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5663 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5664 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5665 another IP address.
5666
5667
5668Exim version 4.34
5669-----------------
5670
5671 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5672 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5673
5674 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5675 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5676 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5677 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5678 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5679
5680 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5681 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5682
5683 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5684 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5685 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5686
5687 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5688 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5689 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5690
5691 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5692 for routers.
5693
5694 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5695 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5696 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5697 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5698 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5699 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5700 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5701
5702
5703Exim version 4.33
5704-----------------
5705
5706 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5707 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5708 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5709 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5710 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5711 default (and expected) setting.
5712
5713 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5714 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5715 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5716 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5717
5718 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5719 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5720
5721 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5722 in domain lists.
5723
5724 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5725 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5726 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5727 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5728 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5729 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5730
5731 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5732 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5733 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5734
5735 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5736 part (NOT match_host).
5737
5738 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5739
5740 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5741 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5742 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5743 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5744 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5745 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5746 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5747 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5748 the same named file.
5749
575010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5751 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5752 when Exim is built.
5753
575411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5755 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5756 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5757 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5758 a host name.
5759
576012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5761 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5762 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5763
576413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5765
576614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5767
576815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5769
577016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5771 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5772
577317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5774 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5775 before starting the TLS session.
5776
577718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5778
577919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5780 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5781
578220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5783 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5784 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5785 colon in the middle).
5786
5787
5788Exim version 4.32
5789-----------------
5790
5791 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5792 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5793 multiple configurations are in use.
5794
5795 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5796 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5797 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5798 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5799 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5800 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5801
5802 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5803 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5804
5805 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5806 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5807 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5808
5809 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5810 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5811 occurs.
5812
5813 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5814 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5815
5816 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5817
5818 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5819 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5820
5821 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5822
5823 -prval:sval
5824
5825 is equivalent to
5826
5827 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5828
5829 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5830 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5831 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5832 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5833 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5834
583510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5836 Exim's behaviour:
5837
5838 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5839 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5840 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5841 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5842 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5843 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5844
5845 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5846 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5847 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5848 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5849 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5850 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5851 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5852 string.
5853
5854 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5855 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5856 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5857 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5858 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5859
586011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5861
586212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5863 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5864 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5865
586613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5867
586814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5869 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5870 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5871 information.
5872
587315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5874 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5875
587616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5877 Three changes have been made:
5878
5879 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5880 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5881 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5882 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5883 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5884
5885 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5886 been restored.
5887
5888 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5889 the modified behaviour.
5890
5891
5892Exim version 4.31
5893-----------------
5894
5895 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5896 Larry Rosenman.
5897
5898 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5899 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5900
5901 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5902 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5903 try to track down a specific problem.
5904
5905 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5906 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5907 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5908
5909 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5910 warning.
5911
5912 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5913 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5914 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5915 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5916 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5917 some earlier ones do not.
5918
5919 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5920
5921 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5922 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5923 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5924 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5925 address literals are enabled, of course).
5926
5927 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5928
592910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5930 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5931 by a command such as
5932
5933 exim -f "" ...
5934
5935 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5936
593711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5938
593912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5940 remained set. It is now erased.
5941
594213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5943 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5944
594514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5946 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5947 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5948 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5949 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5950 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5951 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5952 appropriate error code.
5953
595415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5955 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5956 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5957 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5958 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5959 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5960
596116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5962 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5963 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5964
596517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5966 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5967 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5968 terminate the header.
5969
597018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5971 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5972 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5973
597419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5975 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5976 (4.30/29). In particular:
5977
5978 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5979 imposed.
5980
5981 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5982 to write a maildirsize file.
5983
5984 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5985 the transport, the new value overrides.
5986
5987 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5988 count.
5989
599020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5991 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5992 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5993 space or a tab.
5994
599521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5996 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5997 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5998 the fallback hosts.
5999
600022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6001 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6002 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6003
600423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6005 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6006 using a union.
6007
600824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6009 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6010 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6011
601225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6013
601426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6015
601627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6017
601828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6019 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6020 become corrupted.
6021
602229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6023 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6024 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6025 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6026 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6027 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6028 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6029 too great.
6030
603130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6032 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6033 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6034 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6035 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6036 incorrectly.
6037
603831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6039 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6040 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6041 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6042 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6043 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6044 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6045 cached value only when the same options are set.
6046
604732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6048
604933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6050 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6051 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6052 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6053 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6054
605534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6056 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6057 it is clearly obsolete.
6058
605935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6060 transport.
6061
606236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6063 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6064 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6065 times.
6066
606737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6068 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6069 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6070 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6071 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6072
607338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6074 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6075 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6076 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6077
607839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6079
6080 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6081
6082 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6083 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6084 2^31.
6085
608640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6087 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6088 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6089 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6090 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6091 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6092 $localpart_data.
6093
609441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6095 with the -f command-line option.
6096
609742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6098 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6099 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6100 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6101 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6102 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6103
610443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6105 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6106 line.
6107
610844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6109 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6110 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6111 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6112 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6113 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6114 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6115 buffer is too small.
6116
611745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6118 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6119
612046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6121 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6122 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6123 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6124 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6125 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6126 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6127 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6128 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6129
613047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6131 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6132 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6133
613448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6135 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6136 ACL").
6137
613849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6139 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6140 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6141 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6142 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6143
614450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6145 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6146 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6147 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6148 is set.
6149
615051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6151
615252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6153
615453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6155 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6156
615754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6158 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6159 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6160
616155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6162 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6163 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6164 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6165 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6166
616756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6168 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6169 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6170 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6171 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6172 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6173 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6174
617557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6176 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6177 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6178 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6179 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6180 the test of how many are available.
6181
618258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6183 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6184 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6185 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6186 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6187 new message is started.
6188
618959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6190 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6191
619260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6193 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6194
619561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6196 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6197 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6198 is no long logged.
6199
620062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6201 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6202 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6203 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6204 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6205 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6206 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6207
620863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6209 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6210 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6211 interpreted as octal.
6212
621364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6214 setting.
6215
621665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6217 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6218 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6219 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6220 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6221 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6222
622366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6224 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6225 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6226 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6227
6228 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6229 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6230 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6231 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6232
6233 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6234 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6235 is a bug fix.
6236
6237 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6238 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6239
624067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6241
624268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6243 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6244 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6245 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6246
624769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6248 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6249 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6250 supplied", which is not helpful.
6251
625270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6253 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6254 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6255
625671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6257 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6258 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6259 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6260 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6261 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6262 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6263 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6264
626572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6266 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6267 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6268 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6269 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6270
627173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6272 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6273 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6274 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6275 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6276 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6277
627874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6279 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6280 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6281
628275. Added write_rejectlog option.
6283
628476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6285 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6286 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6287 variables.
6288
628977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6290
629178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6292 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6293 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6294 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6295 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6296 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6297 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6298 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6299
630079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6301 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6302 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6303 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6304 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6305
630680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6307 Haardt.
6308
630981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6310 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6311 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6312 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6313 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6314 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6315 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6316 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6317 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6318
6319
6320Exim version 4.30
6321-----------------
6322
6323 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6324 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6325 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6326
6327 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6328 fixed.
6329
6330 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6331 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6332 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6333
6334 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6335 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6336 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6337 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6338 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6339 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6341 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6342 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6343 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6344 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6345 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6346 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6347 the Exim test suite.
6348
6349 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6350 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6351 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6352 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6353
6354 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6355 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6356 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6357 specify it in this variable.
6358
6359 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6360 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6361 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6362 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6363
6364 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6365 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6366 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6367 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6368
6369 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6370 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6371 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6372 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6373 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6374
6375 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6376
637710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6378 they are logged.
6379
638011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6381 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6382 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6383 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6384 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6385
638612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6387 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6388
638913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6390 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6391 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6392 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6393 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6394
639514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6396 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6397
639815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6399 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6400 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6401
640216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6403 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6404
640517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6406 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6407
640818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6409 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6410 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6411
641219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6413 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6414
641520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6416 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6417 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6418 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6419
642021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6421
642222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6423 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6424 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6425 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6426
642723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6428
642924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6430 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6431
643225. Added .include_if_exists.
6433
643426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6435 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6436 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6437 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6438 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6439 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6440
644127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6442
644328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6444 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6445 this.
6446
644729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6448
644930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6450 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6451
6452 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6453 550 Sender verify failed
6454
6455 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6456 the final line of the response.
6457
645831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6459 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6460 all other user lookups.
6461
646232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6463 delivery time.
6464
646533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6466 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6467 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6468 result into an int without checking.
6469
647034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6471 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6472 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6473
647435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6475 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6476 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6477 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6478
647936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6480 correctly.
6481
648237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6483 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6484
648538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6486 to the empty sender.
6487
648839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6489 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6490 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6491 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6492 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6493 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6494 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6495 panic log.
6496
649740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6498 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6499 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6500 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6501 used.
6502
650341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6504 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6505
650642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6507 timestamps.
6508
650943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6510 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6511
651244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6513
651445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6515 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6516 logs.
6517
651846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6519 as soon as it is encountered.
6520
652147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6522
652348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6524 rewritten to "<>".
6525
652649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6527 recognizes a tab character.
6528
652950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6530 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6531 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6532 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6533
653451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6535
653652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6537 crash.
6538
653953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6540
654154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6542
654355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6544 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6545 2822.
6546
654756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6548 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6549 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6550 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6551 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6552
655357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6554 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6555
655658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6557 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6558 list (.included file names were always shown).
6559
656059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6561 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6562 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6563 root at that time.
6564
656560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6566 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6567
656861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6569
657062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6571
657263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6573
657464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6575 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6576 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6577 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6578 failures to open the logs.
6579
658065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6581 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6582 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6583 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6584 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6585 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6586 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6587
6588
6589Exim version 4.24
6590-----------------
6591
6592 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6593 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6594 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6595 change 4.23/1.
6596
6597 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6598 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6599 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6600
6601 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6602 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6603 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6604
6605 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6606 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6607 causing some misleading effects.
6608
6609 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6610 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6611 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6612
6613 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6614 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6615 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6616 queue-runner function directly.
6617
6618
6619Exim version 4.23
6620-----------------
6621
6622 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6623 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6624
6625 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6626 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6627 was always written to the default place.
6628
6629 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6630 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6631 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6632
6633 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6634
6635 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6636
6637 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6638 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6639 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6640
6641 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6642 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6643 must start.
6644
6645 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6646 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6647 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6648
6649 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6650 command line option is disabled.
6651
6652 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6653 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6654
6655 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6656
6657 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6658
6659 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6660 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6661
666210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6663
666411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6665 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6666 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6667 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6668 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6669 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6670
667112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6672 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6673 timeout.
6674
667513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6676 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6677
667814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6679 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6680
668115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6682 received was valid base64.
6683
668416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6685 name of the variable that was being set.
6686
668717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6688
668918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6690 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6691 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6692 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6693 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6694 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6695
669619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6697
669820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6699 nor realm was specified.
6700
670121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6702 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6703 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6704 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6705
670622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6707 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6708 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6709
671023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6711 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6712 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6713
671424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6715 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6716 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6717 some systems use these upper case variants.
6718
671925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6720 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6721 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6722 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6723
672426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6725
672627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6727 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6728
672928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6730 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6731 expansion variable.
6732
673329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6734
673530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6736 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6737 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6738 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6739
674031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6741 using it.
6742
674332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6744 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6745 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6746
674733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6748 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6749
675034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6751 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6752 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6753 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6754
675535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6756 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6757 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6758
675936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6760
676137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6762 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6763 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6764 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6765 aborted.
6766
676738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6768 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6769 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6770
677139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6772
677340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6774 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6775
677641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6777 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6778
677942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6780 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6781 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6782 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6783 when emails are that large.
6784
6785
6786
6787Exim version 4.22
6788-----------------
6789
6790 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6791 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6792
6793 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6794 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6795 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6796
6797 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6798 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6799 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6800
6801 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6802 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6803 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6804 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6805 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6806
6807 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6808 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6809 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6810 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6811 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6812 ever.
6813
6814 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6815 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6816 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6817 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6818 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6819 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6820 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6821 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6822 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6823 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6824 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6825 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6826 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6827 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6828
6829 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6830 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6831 parameterised it.
6832
6833 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6834 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6835 error should be diagnosed.
6836
6837 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6838 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6839 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6840 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6841 appeared instead of "NULL".
6842
684310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6844 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6845 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6846 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6847 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6848 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6849 proceeds).
6850
6851 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6852 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6853 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6854
6855
6856Exim version 4.21
6857-----------------
6858
6859 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6860 or receiver verification errors.
6861
6862 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6863 name.
6864
6865 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6866 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6867 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6868 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6869
6870 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6871 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6872 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6873 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6874 shouldn't happen again.
6875
6876 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6877 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6878 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6879
6880 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6881 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6882
6883 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6884
6885 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6886 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6887
6888 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6889 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6890 RFC.
6891
689210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6893 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6894 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6895
689611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6897 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6898 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6899 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6900
690112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6902 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6903 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6904 to define what should happen).
6905
690613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6907 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6908 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6909
691014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6911
691215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6913
691416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6915 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6916
4c04137d 691717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6918 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6919 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6920 structure in all cases.
6921
6922 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6923 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6924 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6925 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6926
692718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6928 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6929 domain name.
6930
693119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6932 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6933
693420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6935 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6936
693721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6938 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6939 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6940
694122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6942 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6943 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6944
694523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6946 the book and for uniformity.
6947
694824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6949
695025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6951 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6952 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6953 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6954 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6955 non-existent command as the problem.
6956
695726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6958 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6959 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6960
696127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6962
696328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6964 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6965 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6966
696729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6968 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6969 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6970 timestamps using strftime().
6971
697230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6973 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6974
697532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6976 transport-time rewrites.
6977
697833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6979 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6980 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6981 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6982
698334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6984 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6985
698635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6987 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6988 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6989 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6990 comma and a space.
6991
699236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6993 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6994 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6995 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6996 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6997 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6998 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6999
700037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7001 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7002 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7003 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7004 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7005
700638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7007 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7008 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7009 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7010 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7011 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7012 remaining text gets split now.
7013
701439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7015 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7016 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7017 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7018
701940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7020 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7021 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7022 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7023 $return_path.
7024
702541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7026 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7027 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7028 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7029 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7030 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7031 passed through if needed.
7032
703342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7034 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7035 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7036 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7037 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7038 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7039
704043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7041 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7042 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7043 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7044 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7045
704644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7047 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7048 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7049 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7050 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7051
705245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7053 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7054 noticed.
7055
705646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7057 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7058 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7059 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7060 mayhem of various kinds.
7061
706247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7063 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7064 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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7065 the right test for positive values.
7066
706748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7068 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7069 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7070 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7071 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7072 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7073 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7074 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7075 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7076 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7077 envelope.
7078
707949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7080 module.
7081
708250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7083 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7084 forbidding it.
7085
708651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7087 the existing equality matching.
7088
708952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7090 dealing with inode numbers.
7091
709253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7093 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7094 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7095
709654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7097 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7098 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7099 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7100 local_scan().
7101
710255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7103 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7104 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7105 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7106 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7107 relay addresses has also been removed.
7108
710956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7110
711157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7112 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7113 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7114
711558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7116 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7117 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7118 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7119 processing applies to CR:
7120
7121 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7122 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7123
7124 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7125 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7126 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7127 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7128
712959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7130 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7131 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7132
713360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7134 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7135 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7136 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7137 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7138 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7139 arisen.
7140
714161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7142 program routers.
7143
714462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7145 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7146 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7147 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7148 adds:
7149
7150 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7151
7152 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7153
7154 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7155
715663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7157 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7158 not considered personal.
7159
716064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7161
716265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7163
716466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7165
716667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7167 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7168 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7169 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7170 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7171 header lines, and spool format errors.
7172
717368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7174 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7175 for more flexibility.
7176
717769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7178 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7179 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7180
718170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7182 Sabourenkov.
7183
718471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7185 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7186 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7187 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7188 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7189 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7190 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7191 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7192 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7193
719472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7195 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7196 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7197 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7198 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7199 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7200 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7201
720273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7203 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7204 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7205
720674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7207 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7208 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7209 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7210 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7211 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7212 instead of killing the process with assert().
7213
721475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7215 than Unicode encoding.
7216
721776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7218 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7219 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7220 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7221
722277. Added process_log_path.
7223
722478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7225 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7226
722779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7228 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7229
723080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7231 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7232 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7233
723481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7235 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7236 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7237 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7238 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7239 were applied:
7240
7241 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7242 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7243 as invalid.
7244
724582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7246 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7247 they will be used during message reception.
7248
7249
7250Exim version 4.20
7251-----------------
7252
7253The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7254
7255****