Add example ACL usage of ${run in exim spec.
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.81
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7PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
8
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9PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
11
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12PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
13 by GnuTLS.
14
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15PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
17 routines.
18
13363eba 19PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 20
66645890 21PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 26
a3fb9793 27PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 32 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 33
d27f98fe 34TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
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36TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
37
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38JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
39
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40JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
41
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42PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
43
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44NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
45 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 46
585121e2 47JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 48
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49PP/09 Add gnutls_enable_pkcs11 option.
50
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51PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
52 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
53
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54JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
55 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
56 "acl = name arg..."
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58JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
59
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62
63PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
64 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
65 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
66
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67NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
68
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69NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
70 improved.
71
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72NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
73
c1e794ba 74PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 75
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76PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
77
78PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
79 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
80
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81PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
82 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
83
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84PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
85 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
86
f1e05cc7 87PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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88 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
89 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 90
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91PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
92
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93PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
94 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
95
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96PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
97
c45dd180 98PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 99
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100PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
101 non-compliant senders.
102 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
103
eae0036b 104NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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105 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
106 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
107
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108PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
109 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
110 in spool file corruption.
111
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112PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
113 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
114 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
115 "Got SSL error 2".
116
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117TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
118 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
119 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
120
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121JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
122 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
123
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124JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
125
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126PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
127 diagnostics.
128 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
129
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130PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
131 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
132 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
133
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134PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
135 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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136 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
137 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 138
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139PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
140 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
141
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142PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
143 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
144 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
145 resolver implementation change.
146
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147PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
148 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
149
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150PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
151
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152PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
153
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154PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
155 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
156
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157PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
158 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
159
9e45c72b 160JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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161 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
162
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163PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
164 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
165 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
166 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 167 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 168
53947857 169PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 170
eae0036b 171PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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172 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
173 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 174
9e45c72b 175JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 176
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177PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
178 read-only, out of scope).
179 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
180
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181PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
182 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
183 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
184 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
185
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186PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
187
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188PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
189 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
190 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
191 real issues in debug logging.
192
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193PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
194 assignment on my part. Fixed.
195
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196PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
197 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
198 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
199
200PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
201 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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202 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
203 problems.
3375e053 204
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205PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
206 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
207
57eb9e91 208PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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209 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
210 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
211 needs to override this, it can.
212
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213PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
214 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
215 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
216
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217PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
218 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
219 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
220 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
221
3ecab157 222PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
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228PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
229 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
230
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231TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
232
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233TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
234 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 235
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236TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
237 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
238
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239TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
240 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
241 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
242
243 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
244 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
245 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
246 not safe for signals.
247
248 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
249 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
250 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
251 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
252 exiwhat.
253
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254TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
255
256 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
257 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
258 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
259 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
260 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
261
262 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
263 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
264 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
265 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
266 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
267 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
268
269 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
270 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
271 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
272 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
273
274 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
275 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
276 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
277 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
278
279 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
280 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
281 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
282 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
283 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
284 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
285 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
286 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
287 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
288
289 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
290 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
291 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
292 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
293
294 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
295 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
296 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
297 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
298 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
299 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
300 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
301 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
302 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
303 details in the main documentation.
304
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305TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
306
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307TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
308
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309TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
310 repository when doing development or release builds.
311
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312PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
313 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 314
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315PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
316 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
317 Bugzilla 97.
318
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319PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
320
9e949f00 321PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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322 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
323
324PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
325 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 326
555ae6af 327PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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328 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
329
330PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
331 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 332
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333PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
334 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
335
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336PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
337 Bugzilla 1156.
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338 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
339 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 340
d6cc7c78 341PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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342 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
343 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
344
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345PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
346
3399bb60 347PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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348
349PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
350 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
351
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355
356PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
357
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358PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
359 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
360
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361PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
362
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363PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
364
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365PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
366 Bugzilla 1098.
367
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368PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
369 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 370
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371TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
372 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
373
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374PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
375 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
376
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377PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
378 Bugzilla 1104.
379
c8d52a00 380TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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381 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
382
383TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
384 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
385 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
386 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
387
388PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
389 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
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4c9ef03a 395NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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396 Bugzilla 1073
397
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398TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
399 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
400 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
401
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402TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
403 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
404
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405PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
406 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
407 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
408
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409PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
410 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
411
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412PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
413 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
414
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415NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
416 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
417
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418NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
419 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
420
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421PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
422 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 423
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424NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
425 Fixes bug 943.
426
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427PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
428 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
429
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430PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
431 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
432
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433PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
434 SQL string expansion failure details.
435 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
436
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437PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
438 Patch from Simon Arlott.
439
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440PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
441 extern declarations in function scope.
442 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
443
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444PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
445 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
446 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
447 a kernel bug).
448
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449PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
450 Patch from Mark Zealey.
451
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452PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
453 Patch from Mark Zealey.
454
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455PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
456 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
457
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458PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
459 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
460
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461NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
462 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
463 Dennis Davis.
464
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465PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
466
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467PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
468
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469NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
470 Patch by Simon Arlott
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472TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
473 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
474
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478
479TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
480 consequences so log it to the panic log.
481
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482TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
483 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
484
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485TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
486
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487DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
488 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
489 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
490
491PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
492 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
493 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
494
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495PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
496 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
497 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
498 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
499
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500PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
501 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
502 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
503 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
504
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505PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
506 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
507 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
508 arbitrary files.
509
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510PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
511 (Wolfgang Breyha)
512
b7487bce
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513PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
514 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
515 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
516 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
517 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
518
8c07b69f 519
97fd1e48 520Exim version 4.73
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522
523PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
524 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
525 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
526
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527PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
528 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
529
a8c8d6b5
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530JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
531
77bb000f
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532PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
533
a29e5231
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534PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
535
ec5a0394 536PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 537
55c75993
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538PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
539
453a6645 540PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
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541 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
542 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
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543 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
544
8544e77a
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545PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
546 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
547 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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548 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
549 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 550
83e029d5
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551PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
552
ed7f7860
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553PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
554
7d9f747b
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555PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
556
4b2241d2
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557PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
558
10385c15
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559PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
560
dbc4b90d
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561PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
562
532be449
PP
563PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
564
6a8de854 565PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
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566 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
567 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 568
5dc43717
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569JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
570
571JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
572 "exim" to be used
55c75993 573
3346ab01
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574PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
575 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
576
491fab4c
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577PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
578 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
579 Notification from John Horne.
580
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581PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
582 compatible.
583
584PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
585 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
586 it normally works.
587
7f36d675
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588DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
589 access.
590
c1d94452
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591DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
592 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
593 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
594
e2f5dc15
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595DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
596 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
597 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
598 configuration file.
599
cd25e41d
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600DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
601 option (effectively making it always true).
602
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603DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
604 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
605
fa32850b
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606DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
607 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
608
79d4bc3d
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609PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
610 run-time user, instead of root.
611
43236f35 612PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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613 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
614
fb08281f
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615DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
616 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
617 arguments.
3346ab01 618
74935b98
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619DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
620 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
621 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
622
90b6341f
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623DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
624
57730b52
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625NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
626
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628Exim version 4.72
629-----------------
630
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631JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
632 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
633 typos
465e92cf 634
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635JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
636 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
637 (Finput)
edae0343 638
9bd3e22c
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639NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
640 Patch from Alain Williams
641
bb576ff7
NM
642NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
643
5a1a5845
NM
644NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
645 Patch from Andreas Metzler
646
981a9fad
NM
647NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
648 Patch from Kirill Miazine
649
7fc497ee
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650NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
651
1a41defa
JJ
652JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
653
a466095c 654NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 655 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 656
94a6bd0b
NM
657TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
658
659TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
660
661MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
662 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
663 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
664
c1b141a8
NM
665NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
666 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 667
b26eacf1 668NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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669 Patch by Simon Arlott
670
179c5980 671PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 672 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 673
9bd3e22c 674
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675Exim version 4.71
676-----------------
677
7d9f747b 678TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 679
f013fb92
NM
680NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
681
0eb8eedd
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682NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
683
663ee6d9
NM
684NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
685
177ebd9b
NM
686NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
687
7c6d71af 688
210f147e
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689Exim version 4.70
690-----------------
691
cdd3bb85 692TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 693 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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694
695TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
696 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 697 Hirsch).
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698
699TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
700 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 701 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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702
703TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
704 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
705
210f147e
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706NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
707 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
708 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
709 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
710
deafd5b3
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711NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
712 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 713 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 714
089793a4
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715TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
716
5f16ca82
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717TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
718
dae9d94e 719NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 720 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 721
7d9f747b 722NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 723
06864c44
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724TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
725 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
726 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
727 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
728
65a7d8c3 729NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 730 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 731
23510047 732TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 733
7d9f747b 734NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 735
7d8eec3a 736NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 737 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 738
89dec7b6
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739TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
740 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 741
a99de90c
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742TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
743 that they are available at delivery time.
744
e2803e40
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745TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
746
7199e1ee
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747TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
748 incoming_port log selectors.
749
e276e04b
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750TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
751 setting expands to an empty string.
752
ce552449 753NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 754 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 755
e765a0f1 756NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 757 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 758
4f054c63 759NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 760 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 761
7d9f747b
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762NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
763 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 764
7d9f747b
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765NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
766 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 767
b52bc06e 768NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 769 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 770
447de4b0
NM
771NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
772
4c69d561 773NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 774 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 775
d5c39246 776NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 777 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 778
0b23848a
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779TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
780
8f3414a1 781NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 782 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 783
fb6f955d
NM
784NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
785
786NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 787
7d9f747b
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788NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
789 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 790
7d9f747b
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791NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
792 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 793
7d9f747b
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794NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
795 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 796
7d9f747b
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797NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
798 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 799
7d9f747b
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800NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
801 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 802
7d9f747b
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803NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
804 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 805
7d9f747b
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806NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
807 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 808
7d9f747b 809NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 810 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 811
7d9f747b 812NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 813
7d9f747b
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814NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
815 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 816
7d9f747b 817NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 818
7d9f747b 819NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 820
7d9f747b 821NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 822
7d9f747b 823NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 824
17792b53 825NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 826 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 827
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828NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
829 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 830
91576cec 831NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 832 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 833
7d9f747b
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834NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
835 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 836
7d9f747b 837NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 838
7d9f747b 839NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 840
7d9f747b 841NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 842
7d9f747b 843NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 844
deafd5b3 845
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846Exim version 4.69
847-----------------
848
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849TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
850 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
851 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
852
853 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
854 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
855 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
856 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
857 build errors in sieve.c.
858
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859NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
860 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
861 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
862
f13cddcb
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863SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
864
7d9f747b 865NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 866
7d9f747b 867NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 868
7d9f747b 869NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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870
871
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872Exim version 4.68
873-----------------
874
875PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
876
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877PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
878 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
879 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
880 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
881 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
882 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
883 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
884 for iplsearch lookups.
885
886 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
887 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
888 previously such lookups could never work.
889
890 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
891 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
892 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
893
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894TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
895 version.
896
0806a9c5
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897MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
898 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
899 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
900 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
901 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
902 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
903
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904TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
905 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
906
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907MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
908 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
909 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
910 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
911 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
912 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
913
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914PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
915 local_scan API.
916
93655c46
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917PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
918
6c512171
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919PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
920 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
921 encrypted.
922
923PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
924 by clients under certain conditions.
925
aa6dc513
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926PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
927 "_responses" off the end of the name.
928
a96603a0
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929PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
930
8f240103
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931PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
932 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
933
934PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
935
d677b2f2
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936PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
937
d52120f2
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938PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
939
64f2600a
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940PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
941 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
942
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943PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
944
a4dc33a8
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945PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
946 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
947
d6a60c0f
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948PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
949
8f128379
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950PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
951
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952PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
953 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
954 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
955 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 956
ddea74fa 957PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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958 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
959 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
960
ddea74fa 961PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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962 and InterBase are left for another time.)
963
ddea74fa
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964PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
965
ce9f225c
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966PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
967
19897d52
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968PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
969
bc64a74d
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970PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
971 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
972 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
973
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975Exim version 4.67
976-----------------
977
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978MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
979 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
980 Jan Srzednicki.
981
b4ed4da0
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982PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
983 issue a MAIL command.
984
431b7361
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985PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
986
987 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
988
989 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
990 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
991 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
992 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
993 item. This has been fixed.
994
995PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
996 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
997
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PH
998PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
999 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1000
54fc8428
PH
1001PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1002 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1003 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1004
34c5e8dd
SC
1005SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1006
bbe15da8
PH
1007PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1008 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1009 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1010 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1011 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1012
0e8a9471
MH
1013MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1014 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1015 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1016
f0872424
PH
1017PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1018 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1019 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1020 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1021
b01dd148
PH
1022PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1023
6bf342e1
PH
1024PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1025
273f34d0
PH
1026PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1027 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1028 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1029 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1030 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1031
cf8b11a5
PH
1032PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1033
41c7c167
PH
1034PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1035 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1036 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1037 values).
1038
9c57cbc0
PH
1039PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1040
f3f065bb
PH
1041PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1042
047bdd8c
PH
1043PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1044
0ce9abe6
PH
1045PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1046
0e22dfd1
PH
1047PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1048
4c590bd1
PH
1049PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1050 no_callout_flush is set.
1051
09945f1e
PH
1052PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1053 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1054 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1055 fixed.
1056
c51b8e75
PH
1057PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1058
e28326d8
PH
1059PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1060 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1061 other ACL rejections are.
1062
75b1493f
PH
1063PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1064 with slight modification.
1065
7c5214ec
PH
1066PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1067 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1068
4311097e
PH
1069PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1070 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1071 connection.
1072
29f89cad
PH
1073PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1074 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1075
5e687460
SC
1076SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1077
c3611384
PH
1078PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1079 expansion side effects.
1080
5a11a7b4
PH
1081PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1082 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1083 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1084 be the same.
1085
0e20aff9
MH
1086MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1087 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1088 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1089
ca86f471
PH
1090PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1091 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1092 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1093 were accidentally chopped off.
1094
a14e5636
PH
1095PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1096 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1097 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1098 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1099 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1100 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1101 pipelining has not been advertised.
1102
ec95d1a6
PH
1103PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1104
42855d71
PH
1105PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1106 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1107 This has been fixed.
1108
57c2c631
PH
1109PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1110 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1111 reported on Solaris.
1112
58c01c94
PH
1113PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1114 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1115 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1116 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1117 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1118 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1119 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1120
dee5a20a
PH
1121PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1122 cpus.
1123
d2ee6114
PH
1124PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1125
b2d5182b
PH
1126PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1127
79749a79
PH
1128PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1129 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1130 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1131 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1132 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1133 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1134
c456d9bb
PH
1135PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1136 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1137 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1138 host_all_ignored option.
1139
cd9868ec
PH
1140PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1141 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1142 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1143 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1144 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1145 is what is supposed to happen).
1146
ebeaf996
PH
1147PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1148 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1149 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1150 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1151 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1152 uses the Exim user.
1153
2679d413
PH
1154PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1155 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1156 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1157 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1158 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1159 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1160 users.
1161
84024b72
PH
1162PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1163
8005d38e
SC
1164SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1165 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1166 (Jez Hancock).
1167 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1168 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1169
3298c6c6
SC
1170SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1171
a43a27c5
PH
1172PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1173
58eb016e 1174PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1175 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1176 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1177 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1178 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1179 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1180 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1181 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1182 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1183 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1184 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1185
b43a74ea
PH
1186PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1187 advertised in response to EHLO.
1188
b4ed4da0 1189
5dd1517f
PH
1190Exim version 4.66
1191-----------------
1192
1193PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1194 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1195
1196 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1197 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1198
1199 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1200 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1201 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1202
1203 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1204 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1205 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1206 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1207 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1208
1209
93cfa765
TK
1210Exim version 4.65
1211-----------------
1212
1213TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1214 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1215 versions. (#438)
1216
d6066548
MH
1217MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1218 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1219 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1220
4362ff0d
PH
1221PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1222 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1223 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1224 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1225 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1226 rather than extend the field.
1227
93cfa765 1228
944e9e9c
TF
1229Exim version 4.64
1230-----------------
aa41d2de 1231
21d74bd9
TK
1232TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1233 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1234 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1235 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1236 these files.
1237
1238TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1239 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1240 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1241
1242TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1243 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1244 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1245
1246TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1247 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1248 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1249 in the field name.
1250
2b1c6e3a
PH
1251PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1252 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1253 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1254 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1255 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1256 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1257 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1258 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1259 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1260 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1261 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1262
1f872c80
PH
1263PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1264 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1265
1266PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1267 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1268 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1269 ignores EPIPE as well.
1270
d203e649
PH
1271PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1272 (quoted-printable decoding).
1273
cc2ed8f7 1274PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1275 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1276
ddfcd446
PH
1277PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1278
d45b1de8
PH
1279PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1280
1281PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1282
38a0a95f 1283PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1284 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1285
a2405d83
JJ
1286JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1287 in 4.64-PH/09.
1288
1289JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1290 miscellaneous code fixes
1291
6ea85e9a
PH
1292PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1293 rejections.
1294
26da7e20
PH
1295PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1296 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1297 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1298 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1299 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1300 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1301 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1302 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1303
14aa5a05 1304PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1305 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1306 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1307 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1308 function.
1309 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1310 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1311 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1312 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1313 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1314 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1315 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1316 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1317 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1318
ff75a1f7
PH
1319PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1320 decoding.
1321
e6f6568e
PH
1322PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1323 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1324 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1325 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1326 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1327 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1328 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1329 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1330
d6f6e0dc
PH
1331PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1332 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1333 list.
1334
322050c2
PH
1335PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1336 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1337 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1338 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1339 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1340 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1341 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1342 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1343 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1344 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1345 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1346 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1347 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1348
08955dd3
PH
1349PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1350 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1351 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1352 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1353 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1354 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1355 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1356
1eccaa59
PH
1357PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1358 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1359 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1360 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1361 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1362 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1363 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1364 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1365 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1366 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1367
602e59e5
PH
1368PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1369 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1370 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1371 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1372 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1373
411ef850
PH
1374PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1375 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1376 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1377 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1378 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1379 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1380 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1381
7befa435
PH
1382PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1383 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1384 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1385 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1386 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1387 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1388 been verified.
1389
48da4259 1390PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1391 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1392 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1393 and authorization.)
1394
48da4259
PH
1395PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1396 if any retry times were supplied.
1397
d1d5595c
PH
1398PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1399 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1400 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1401
0ef732d9
PH
1402PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1403
328895cc
PH
1404PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1405
fd700877
PH
1406PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1407 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1408 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1409 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1410 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1411 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1412
8dce1a6f
PH
1413PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1414 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1415
17af4a17
PH
1416PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1417 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1418 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1419
1420PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1421 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1422 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1423 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1424 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1425 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1426 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1427 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1428 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1429
1430 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1431 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1432 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1433 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1434 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1435 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1436 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1437 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1438 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1439
1440 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1441 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1442 hammering the server.
1443
c1114884
PH
1444PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1445 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1446
7a0743eb
PH
1447PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1448
0d85fa3f
PH
1449PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1450 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1451 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1452
1bf43b78
PH
1453PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1454 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1455 one case where this was not true.
1456
520de300
PH
1457PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1458 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1459 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1460 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1461 fails.
1462
48c7f9e2
PH
1463PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1464 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1465 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1466 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1467 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1468 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1469 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1470 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1471 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1472 smtp transport.
1473
99ea1c86
PH
1474PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1475 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1476 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1477 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1478
a2042e78
PH
1479PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1480 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1481
4fbcfc2e
PH
1482PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1483 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1484 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1485
aa41d2de
PH
1486PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1487
af561417
PH
1488PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1489
3cc66b45
PH
1490PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1491
194cc0e4
PH
1492PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1493 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1494 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1495 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1496
a401ddaa
PH
1497PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1498 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1499
4e88a19f
PH
1500PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1501 be meaningful with "accept".
1502
d7d7b289
SC
1503SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1504 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1505
1506SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1507 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1508 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1509
1510SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1511 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1512 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1513 there is data to show.
1514 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1515
1516SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1517 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1518 as well as the number of messages.
1519
1520SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1521 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1522 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1523
1524SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1525 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1526 have a flag are now skipped.
1527
1528SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1529 Added the -emptyok flag.
1530
1531SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1532 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1533
0ea2a468
JJ
1534JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1535 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1536 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1537
1538JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1539 match 4.64-PH/13
1540
1541JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1542 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1543
1544JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1545
1546JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1547 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1548
8a10f5a4
PH
1549PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1550
30e18802
PH
1551PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1552 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1553 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1554 contravention of the specifications.
1555
55728a4f
PH
1556PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1557 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1558 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1559
d7837193
PH
1560PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1561 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1562 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1563
87054a31
PH
1564PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1565
ea2c01d2
MH
1566MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1567 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1568 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1569 some point in the past.
1570
e4fa6968
PH
1571PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1572 transport during callout processing was broken.
1573
56f5d9bd
PH
1574PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1575 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1576
922e1c28
PH
1577PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1578 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1579
21eb6e72
PH
1580PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1581 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1582
a0540757
PH
1583PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1584
944e9e9c 1585
478be7b0
SC
1586Exim version 4.63
1587-----------------
1588
1589SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1590 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1591
1592SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1593 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1594 there is data to show.
1595 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1596
1597SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1598 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1599
2b965a65
TF
1600TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1601 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1602
45b91596
PH
1603TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1604 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1605
c59f5781
TF
1606TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1607 submissions from trusted users.
1608
90fc3069
TF
1609TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1610 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1611
6083aca0
TF
1612TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1613 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1614 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1615 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1616 there is now a framework to start from.
1617
765b530f
PH
1618PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1619 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1620 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1621
4e167a8c
PH
1622PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1623
4608d683
PH
1624PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1625
b8dc3e4a
PH
1626PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1627
5418e93b
PH
1628PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1629 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1630 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1631
b4a9bda2
PH
1632PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1633 libradius.
1634
45b91596
PH
1635PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1636 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1637 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1638
5547e2c5
PH
1639PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1640 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1641 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1642 its arguments.
1643
dbcef0ea
PH
1644PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1645 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1646 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1647 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1648 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1649
25257489
PH
1650PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1651 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1652
c816d124
PH
1653PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1654
a9ccd69a
PH
1655PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1656 operations in malware.c.
1657
75fa1910
PH
1658PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1659 signatures.
1660
a7d7aa58
PH
1661PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1662 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1663 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1664 all.
1665
42119b09
PH
1666PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1667 statements to "add_header".
1668
41609df5
PH
1669PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1670 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1671
a5bd321b
PH
1672PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1673 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1674 latter.
1675
e85a7ad5 1676PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1677 so that it is now:
1678
e85a7ad5
PH
1679 ${if or { \
1680 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1681 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1682 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1683 }{no}{yes}}
1684
e85a7ad5
PH
1685 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1686 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1687
d8fe1c03
PH
1688PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1689 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1690
16282d2b
PH
1691PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1692 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1693 any possible encoding problems.
1694
35d40a98
PH
1695PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1696 but not after initializing Perl.
1697
034d99ab
PH
1698PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1699 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1700 apparently, which is not desirable.
1701
6ec97b1b
PH
1702PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1703 queries.
1704
e22ca4ac
JJ
1705JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1706 --not options
1707
1708JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1709
33d73e3b
PH
1710PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1711 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1712 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1713 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1714
9ecb03f3
PH
1715PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1716 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1717 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1718
084efe8d
PH
1719PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1720 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1721 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1722 0.12.
1723
366fc9f0
PH
1724PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1725 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1726 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1727 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1728 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1729
c59f5781 1730
c887c79e
TF
1731Exim version 4.62
1732-----------------
1733
1734TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1735 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1736
1cce3af8
PH
1737PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1738 patch).
1739
afb3eaaf
PH
1740PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1741 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1742 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1743 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1744 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1745 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1746 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1747 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1748 451 error is used.
1749
e173618b
PH
1750PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1751
dd16e114
PH
1752PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1753 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1754 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1755
f7fd3850
PH
1756PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1757 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1758 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1759 odd errors.
1760
d87df92c
PH
1761PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1762 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1763
7e9f683d
PH
1764PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1765 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1766 option (which defaults to 0600).
1767
bfad5236
PH
1768PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1769
01c490df
PH
1770PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1771 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1772 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1773 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1774 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1775 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1776 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1777
d6629cdc
PH
1778PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1779
1cce3af8 1780
214e2000
PH
1781Exim version 4.61
1782-----------------
1783
1784PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1785 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1786 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1787 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1788 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1789 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1790 addresses as local.
1791
f9daeae0
PH
1792PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1793 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1794
7e66e54d
PH
1795PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1796
c8ea1597
PH
1797PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1798 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1799 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1800 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1801 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1802 grumble.
1803
911f6fde
PH
1804PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1805 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1806
47ca6d6c
PH
1807PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1808 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1809 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1810 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1811 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1812
ed0e9820
PH
1813PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1814 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1815 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1816 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1817
eff37e47
PH
1818PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1819 be the same on different OS.
1820
1921d2ea
PH
1821PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1822 testing.
1823
b3f69ca8
JJ
1824JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1825 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1826
1827JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1828 in 4.61-PH/06
1829
424a1c63
PH
1830PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1831 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1832 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1833 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1834 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1835 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1836 bounce message.
1837
7a100415
PH
1838PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1839 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1840 when Exim was called.
1841
19b9dc85
PH
1842PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1843 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1844
309bd837
PH
1845PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1846 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1847 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1848 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1849
59e82a2a
PH
1850PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1851 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1852 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1853 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1854 changes:
1855
1856 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1857 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1858 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1859
1860 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1861 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1862 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1863
9edc04ce
PH
1864PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1865 feature).
1866
1349e1e5
PH
1867PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1868 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1869 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1870 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1871 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1872 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1873 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1874 values from the SRV records were lost.
1875
ea49d0e1
PH
1876PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1877 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1878 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1879
064a94c9
PH
1880PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1881 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1882 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1883
727071f8
PH
1884PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1885 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1886 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1887 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1888 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1889 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1890 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1891 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1892 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1893 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1894
f78eb7c6
PH
1895PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1896 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1897 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1898
21c28500
PH
1899PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1900 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1901
1902PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1903 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1904 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1905 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1906 is given.
1907
1688f43b
PH
1908PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1909 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1910 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1911
1912PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1913 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1914 PH/23 above applies.
1915
9675b384
PH
1916PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1917 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1918 (for which there is an explicit test).
1919
6a3f1455
PH
1920PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1921
dac79d3e
PH
1922PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1923 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1924 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1925 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1926 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1927
5977a0b3
PH
1928PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1929 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1930 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1931 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1932
c91535f3
PH
1933PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1934 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1935 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1936
0d46a8c8
PH
1937PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1938
278c6e6c
PH
1939PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1940
2cbb4081
PH
1941PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1942 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1943 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1944
3eef829e
PH
1945PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1946 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1947 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1948 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1949 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1950
1ab95fa6
PH
1951PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1952 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1953 the message gets confusing).
1954
230205fc
PH
1955PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1956 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1957 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1958 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1959
75e0e026
PH
1960PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1961 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1962 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1963 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1964 same order.
1965
1966PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1967 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1968 the different processes.
1969
145396a6
PH
1970PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1971
3cd34f13
PH
1972PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1973
11121d3d
JJ
1974JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1975 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1976
1977JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1978 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1979
1980JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1981 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1982 messages matching specified criteria.
1983
8def5aaf
PH
1984PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1985
929ba01c
PH
1986PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1987 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1988
2632889e
PH
1989PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1990 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1991 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1992 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1993 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1994 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1995 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1996 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1997 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1998 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1999
944a9c55
PH
2000PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2001 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2002 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2003
4a23603b
PH
2004PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2005
4730f942
PH
2006PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2007 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2008 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2009 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2010 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2011 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2012 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2013 the variable.
2014
30dba1e6
PH
2015PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2016 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2017
382afc6b
PH
2018PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2019
a86229cf
PH
2020PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2021
50c99ba6
PH
2022PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2023
d35e429d
PH
2024PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2025 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2026 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2027 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2028 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2029 size of the count of files.
2030
f90d018c
PH
2031PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2032
75def545
PH
2033PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2034 used in LMTP mode:
2035
2036 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2037 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2038 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2039 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2040
2041 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2042 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2043 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2044
2045PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2046 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2047 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2048 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2049 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2050
c46782ef
PH
2051PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2052 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2053
71fafd95
PH
2054PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2055 will now be deprecated.
2056
2c5db4fd
PH
2057PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2058
9cf6b11a
JJ
2059JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2060 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2061 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2062
2063JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2064 with very large, slow to parse queues
2065
2066JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2067
2068JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2069
898d150f
PH
2070PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2071 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2072 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2073 SMTP output lines.
2074
46218253
PH
2075PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2076 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2077 Sieve code now uses this.
2078
e97957bc
PH
2079PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2080 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2081
81e509d7
PH
2082PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2083 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2084
3d240ff7
PH
2085PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2086
b37c4101
PH
2087PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2088 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2089 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2090 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2091 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2092
79378e0f
PH
2093PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2094 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2095 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2096 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2097
e49c7bb4
PH
2098PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2099
d114ec46
PH
2100PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2101
f3d7df6c
PH
2102PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2103 is preferred over IPv4.
2104
715ab376
PH
2105PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2106 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2107 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2108 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2109 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2110 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2111 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2112
6b31b150
PH
2113PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2114 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2115 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2116
2117PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2118
d515a917
PH
2119PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2120 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2121 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2122 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2123 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2124 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2125 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2126 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2127 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2128 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2129 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2130
9b8fadde
PH
2131PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2132 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2133 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2134
214e2000 2135
5de37277
PH
2136Exim version 4.60
2137-----------------
2138
cc38ddbf
PH
2139PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2140
2141 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2142 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2143
2144 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2145 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2146 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2147
72fdd6ae
PH
2148PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2149
2150 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2151 not a single digit.
2152
2153 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2154 string.
2155
2156 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2157 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2158 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2159 silly things.
2160
2161 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2162 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2163
2164 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2165 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2166
cb741023
PH
2167PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2168 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2169 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2170
f174f16e
PH
2171PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2172 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2173
c25242d7
PH
2174PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2175 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2176
2177 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2178
2179 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2180 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2181 this:
2182
2183 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2184
82c19f95
PH
2185PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2186 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2187 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2188 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2189 identical. For example:
2190
2191 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2192
2193 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2194 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2195 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2196
d7ffbc12
PH
2197PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2198 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2199 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2200 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2201
9f526266
PH
2202PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2203 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2204 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2205 message.
2206
87fcc8b9
PH
2207PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2208
2209 o fixes some comments
2210 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2211 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2212 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2213 and documents the missing references header update
2214
2215 and most important:
2216
2217 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2218 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2219 result)
2220
456682f5
PH
2221PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2222 Electronic Mail") by including:
2223
2224 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2225
2226 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2227 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2228 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2229 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2230 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2231
2232 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2233
2234 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2235
2236 The auto-replied keyword:
2237
2238 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2239 message by an automatic process,
2240
2241 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2242
2243 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2244 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2245
2246 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2247 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2248 other messages.
2249
3e46c1aa
PH
2250PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2251 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2252
49826d12
PH
2253PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2254
eba0c039
PH
2255PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2256 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2257 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2258
a0d6ba8a
PH
2259PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2260 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2261 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2262
f0917727
PH
2263PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2264 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2265 and treats the condition as false.
2266
096fee00
PH
2267PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2268
024bd3c2
PH
2269PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2270 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2271 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2272 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2273 not changing the active code.
2274
2275 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2276 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2277
2278 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2279 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2280
df199fec
PH
2281PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2282 (Bugzilla #53).
2283
d27f1df3
PH
2284PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2285 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2286 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2287 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2288 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2289 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2290 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2291 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2292 the text comparison.
2293
96776534
PH
2294PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2295 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2296 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2297 The same fix has been applied.
2298
5de37277 2299
9a799bc0
PH
2300Exim version 4.54
2301-----------------
2302
2303PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2304 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2305 It now does.
2306
99a4b039
PH
2307PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2308 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2309
2310PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2311
4b233853
PH
2312PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2313 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2314 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2315 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2316 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2317
8857ccfd
PH
2318TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2319 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2320 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2321 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2322 or /domain=).
2323
433a2980
PH
2324PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2325 testing suite.
2326
3e46c1aa 2327
9a799bc0 2328
e3a311ba
TK
2329Exim version 4.53
2330-----------------
2331
2332TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2333 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2334
13b685f9
PH
2335PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2336
395ff96d
PH
2337PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2338
5b68f6e4
PH
2339PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2340 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2341 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2342
1ab52c69
PH
2343PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2344 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2345 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2346
b07e6aa3
PH
2347PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2348 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2349 operating systems.
2350
254e032f
PH
2351PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2352 ${stat: expansion item.
2353
3af76a81
PH
2354PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2355 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2356
2548ba04
PH
2357PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2358 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2359 file for comments.
2360
b6c6011d
PH
2361PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2362
cf39cf57
PH
2363PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2364 setting.
2365
f1513293
PH
2366PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2367 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2368
727549a4
PH
2369TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2370
af46795e
PH
2371PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2372 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2373 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2374 the end of the subprocess.
2375
d7b47fd0
PH
2376PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2377 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2378 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2379 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2380 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2381
ee744174
JJ
2382JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2383
b582ab87
PH
2384TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2385
41a13e0a
PH
2386PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2387 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2388
f625cc5a
PH
2389PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2390
2391PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2392
21f7af35
PH
2393PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2394 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2395 HP-UX compiler.
2396
31480e42
PH
2397PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2398
2d280592
PH
2399PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2400 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2401 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2402
7cd1141b
PH
2403PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2404 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2405
2406PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2407 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2408
750af86e
PH
2409PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2410 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2411
2412 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2413 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2414
2415 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2416 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2417 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2418 contributed by a Radius user.
2419
2420PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2421 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2422
4304270b
TK
2423TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2424 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2425
750af86e
PH
2426PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2427 available.
2428
64ffc24f
PH
2429PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2430 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2431 received.
2432
5dd9625b
PH
2433PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2434 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2435 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2436 header lines when this was not necessary.
2437
5591031b
PH
2438PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2439
ba18e66a
PH
2440PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2441 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2442 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2443 exists".
2444
9cec981f
PH
2445PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2446 -bV or -d is used.
2447
aa2b5c79
PH
2448PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2449 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2450 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2451 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2452
48a53b7f
PH
2453PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2454
1c59d63b
PH
2455PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2456
671012da
TK
2457TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2458
1509d3a8
PH
2459PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2460
2461PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2462 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2463 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2464 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2465 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2466 settings.
2467
2468PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2469
2fe1a124
PH
2470PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2471 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2472 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2473 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2474 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2475 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2476 which is clearly wrong.
2477
8800895a
PH
2478PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2479
ccfdb010
PH
2480PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2481 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2482 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2483 subsequently added.
2484
1130bfb0
PH
2485PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2486 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2487
ebcb507f
PH
2488PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2489
c35e155c
PH
2490PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2491 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2492
95d1f782
PH
2493PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2494 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2495
fd6de02e
PH
2496PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2497 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2498
58de37c5
PH
2499PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2500 recipients, not senders.
2501
261cf466
TF
2502TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2503 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2504
3ee512ff
PH
2505PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2506
e08c430f
PH
2507PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2508
bef5a11f
PH
2509PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2510 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2511 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2512 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2513
7546de58
TF
2514TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2515
e5d5a95f
TF
2516TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2517 clock is set back in time.
2518
2e88a017
TF
2519TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2520 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2521
a5f65aa4
TF
2522TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2523 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2524
e7726cbf
PH
2525PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2526 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2527 (see PH/47 above).
2528
a7fdad5b
TF
2529TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2530 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2531 header rewrites.
2532
6af56900
PH
2533PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2534 type ("H").
2535
0925ede6
PH
2536PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2537
66afa403
TF
2538TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2539 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2540 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2541
0154e85a
TF
2542TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2543 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2544 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2545 helo verification defer as a failure.
2546
16f12c76
PH
2547PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2548 actual error message.
2549
bbe902f0 2550
e5a9dba6
PH
2551Exim version 4.52
2552-----------------
2553
2554TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2555
22c3b60b
PH
2556PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2557 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2558 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2559 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2560
06a9b4b5
PH
2561TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2562
c1ac6996
PH
2563PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2564 can still be requested.
2565
9c7a242c
PH
2566PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2567 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2568 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2569 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2570
87ba3f5f
PH
2571TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2572 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2573 circumstances, but probably never did.
2574
2575PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2576 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2577 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2578 in the header line.
2579
29aba418
TF
2580TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2581
fe0dab11
TF
2582TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2583 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2584
11d337a4
TK
2585TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2586
2587TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2588
415c8f3b
PH
2589PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2590 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2591 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2592 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2593 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2594 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2595
958541e9
PH
2596PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2597 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2598 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2599 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2600 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2601 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2602
c206415f
TK
2603TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2604 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2605
2a4be8f9
PH
2606PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2607 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2608
1cba11c5
SC
2609SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2610 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2611
2612SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2613
2614SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2615
2616SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2617
2618SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2619
2620SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2621
2622SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2623
1005d00e
TK
2624TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2625
2626TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2627 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2628 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2629
2630TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2631 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2632 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2633 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2634
9b4768fa
PH
2635PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2636 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2637 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2638
2639PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2640 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2641 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2642 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2643
0d7eb84a
PH
2644PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2645 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2646 to be made).
2647
2648PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2649 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2650 should work with maildirs and everything.
2651
40727bee
TK
2652TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2653 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2654
554d2369
TF
2655TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2656 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2657
1f922db1
PH
2658PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2659 function for BDB 4.3.
2660
ef213c3b
PH
2661PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2662
8ac170f3
PH
2663PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2664 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2665 involved.
2666
b1c749bb
PH
2667PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2668 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2669 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2670 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2671 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2672 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2673
4aac9b49
PH
2674PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2675 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2676 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2677 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2678 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2679 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2680 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2681 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2682
294520c8
TK
2683TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2684 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2685 details.
2686
5bd022fe
PH
2687PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2688 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2689
90e9ce59
PH
2690PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2691 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2692 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2693 test. It is now used for both.
2694
5ea81592
PH
2695PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2696 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2697 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2698 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2699 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2700 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2701
c6c2dc1d
PH
2702PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2703 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2704 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2705 string_vformat().
2706
fffffe4c
PH
2707PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2708 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2709 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2710
9a26b6b2
PH
2711PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2712 experimental DomainKeys support:
2713
2714 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2715 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2716 the control was given.
2717
2718 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2719
4aee0225
PH
2720PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2721
32d668a5
PH
2722PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2723
8187c3f3
PH
2724PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2725 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2726 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2727 db.h files).
2728
ff790e47 2729PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2730 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2731 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2732 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2733 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2734 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2735 course.
ff790e47 2736
5417f6d1
PH
2737PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2738 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2739 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2740 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2741 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2742 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2743
59cf8544
PH
2744PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2745 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2746 do -d+all out of habit.
2747
e7ad8a65
PH
2748PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2749 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2750 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2751
ade42478
PH
2752PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2753 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2754 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2755 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2756 record types that Exim uses.
2757
182ad5cf
PH
2758PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2759 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2760 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2761 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2762 non-existent file that was broken.
2763
b0d9fc80
TK
2764TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2765 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2766
2767TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2768 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2769 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2770
2771TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2772
47c7a64a
PH
2773PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2774 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2775 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2776 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2777 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2778 same time.
2779
a388bce4
SC
2780SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2781 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2782 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2783 at a slight CPU cost.
2784
2785SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2786 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2787
2788SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2789 by Marc Sherman.
2790
0793e4ed
SC
2791SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2792
c58b88df
PH
2793PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2794 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2795
e7ad8a65 2796
7982096b
PH
2797Exim version 4.51
2798-----------------
2799
1a46a8c5
PH
2800TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2801 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2802
2f079f46 2803TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2804
2805TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2806
2807PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2808 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2809
2810PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2811 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2812 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2813 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2814 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2815 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2816 file.
2817
2818PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2819 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2820 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2821 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2822 these two options.
2823
2824PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2825 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2826 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2827 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2828 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2829 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2830 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2831 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2832
2833PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2834 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2835
2836PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2837 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2838 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2839 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2840 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2841 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2842
2843PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2844 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2845 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2846 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2847
2848PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2849 Finch).
2850
2851PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2852 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2853
49c2d5ea
PH
2854PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2855 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2856 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2857 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2858 message.
49c2d5ea 2859
bf759a8b
PH
2860PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2861
83364d30
PH
2862PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2863 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2864
7999bbd7
PH
2865PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2866 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2867 to what was transported.)
2868
7dbf77c9
PH
2869TF/01 Added $received_time.
2870
74e0617f
PH
2871PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2872 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2873 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2874 spamd_address settings.
2875
2f079f46
PH
2876PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2877 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2878 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2879 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2880 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2881
8c841523
PH
2882PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2883
7766a4f0
PH
2884PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2885 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2886 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2887 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2888 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2889
8b417f2c
PH
2890PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2891 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2892
901f42cb
PH
2893PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2894 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2895 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2896 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2897 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2898 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2899 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2900 for failure.
2901
f9b9210e
PH
2902PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2903 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2904 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2905 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2906 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2907 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2908 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2909 "input=".
2910
54cdb463
PH
2911PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2912
cf00dad6
PH
2913PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2914 driver and ACL definitions.
2915
acb1b346
PH
2916PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2917 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2918
c5ddb310
PH
2919PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2920 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2921 understands it better than I do:
2922
2923 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2924 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2925
2926 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2927 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2928 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2929 => three warnings about OTP not working
2930 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2931
2932 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2933 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2934 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2935 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2936 for each call.)
2937 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2938 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2939
2940 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2941 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2942 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2943
31619da6
PH
2944PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2945 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2946 specified.
2947
bebaf0fc
PH
2948PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2949 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2950 "Linux".
2951
475fe28a
PH
2952PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2953 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2954 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2955
2956 warn !verify = sender
2957 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2958
2959 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2960 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2961
7e8bec7a
PH
2962PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2963
2964 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2965 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2966
2967 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2968 nomenclature these days.)
2969
e4a89c47
PH
2970PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2971 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2972
5ca2a9a1
PH
2973PH/30 In these circumstances:
2974 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2975 . First host does not offer TLS;
2976 . First host accepts first address;
2977 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2978 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2979 . Second host accepts second address.
2980 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2981 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2982 address.
7e8bec7a 2983
c688b954
PH
2984PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2985 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2986 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2987 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2988 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2989
fed77020
PH
2990PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2991 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2992
7fe1560f
PH
2993PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2994 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2995
ebb6e6d5
PH
2996PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2997 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2998 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2999
9c4e8f60
PH
3000PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3001 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3002 overlooked.
3003
3004PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3005
d7174846
PH
3006PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3007 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3008 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3009 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3010 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3011 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3012 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3013
3014 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3015 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3016 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3017 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3018 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3019
3020 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3021 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3022 routed further.
3023
cfe75fc3
PH
3024PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3025 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3026 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3027 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3028 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3029 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3030
be22d70e
PH
3031PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3032
0612b098
PH
3033PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3034 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3035 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3036 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3037 printable escape sequences.
3038
2e0c1448
PH
3039PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3040 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3041 body only.
3042
447d236c
PH
3043PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3044 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3045 are as follows:
3046
3047 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3048 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3049 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3050 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3051 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3052
3053 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3054 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3055 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3056
d20976dc
PH
3057PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3058
f656d135
PH
3059PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3060 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3061 play with."
3062
2e2a30b4
PH
3063PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3064 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3065 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3066 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3067 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3068 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3069 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3070 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3071 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3072 the log output.
3073
9176e9f0
PH
3074PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3075 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3076 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3077 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3078 "make".
3079
7982096b 3080
bbe902f0
PH
3081A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3082----------------------------------------
3083
3084Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3085changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3086needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3087in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3088that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3089release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3090from 4.43.
3091
3092I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
30934.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3094those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3095historical information.
3096
3097
f7b63901 3098Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3099-----------------
3100
5fe762f6
PH
3101 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3102
139059f6 3103 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3104 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3105
7086e875
PH
3106 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3107 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3108 place.
3109
35af9f61
PH
3110 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3111 filter fails to execute.
3112
b668c215
PH
3113 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3114 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3115 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3116 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3117 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3118
a494b1e1
PH
3119 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3120
3121 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3122 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3123 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3124 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3125
c5fcb476
PH
3126 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3127 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3128 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3129 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3130 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3131
69358f02
PH
3132 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3133
5be20824
PH
313410. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3135
eb2c0248
PH
313611. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3137 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3138 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3139 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3140
2a3eea10
PH
314112. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3142 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3143 sender verification.
3144
314513. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3146 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3147
23c7ff99
PH
314814. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3149
4deaf07d
PH
315015. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3151 connection timeout.
3152
926e1192
PH
315316. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3154 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3155
650edc6f
PH
315617. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3157 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3158
2c7db3f5
PH
315918. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3160 information about exactly what failed.
3161
3d235903
PH
316219. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3163
7c7ad977
PH
316420. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3165 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3166 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3167
981756db
PH
316821. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3169 It is now set to "smtps".
3170
d4eb88df
PH
317122. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3172 ignore_target_hosts.
3173
317423. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3175 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3176 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3177 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3178 "[x.x.x.x]".
3179
7d468ab8
PH
318024. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3181 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3182 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3183
318425. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3185 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3186 wake it up if nothing else does.
3187
62c0818f
PH
318826. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3189 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3190 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3191 end up negative.
3192
26034054
PH
319327. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3194 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3195
af66f652
PH
319628. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3197
90af77f4
PH
319829. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3199 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3200 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3201 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3202 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3203 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3204 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3205 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3206
d8ef3577
PH
320730. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3208 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3209 than one IP address.
3210
5cb8cbc6
PH
321131. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3212 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3213 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3214 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3215
14702f5b
PH
321632. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3217 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3218 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3219 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3220 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3221 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3222
063b1e99
PH
322333. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3224 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3225 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3226 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3227
652e1b65
PH
322834. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3229 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3230 respected.
3231
6f0c9a4f
PH
323235. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3233 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3234 $sender_host_address.
3235
33397d19
PH
323636. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3237 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3238 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3239 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3240 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3241 very small.
3242
7bb56e1f
PH
324337. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3244
3245 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3246 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3247
ea3bc19b
PH
3248 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3249 just the host names, not the priorities.
3250
3251 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3252 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3253 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3254
ea3bc19b 3255 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3256 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3257
0bcb2a0e
PH
325838. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3259 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3260 domain.
3261
2ac0e484
PH
326239. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3263
4e1fde53
PH
326440. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3265 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3266
de365ded
PH
326741. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3268 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3269 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3270
f05da2e8
PH
327142. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3272
d6453af2
PH
327343. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3274
f7b63901
PH
327544. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3276
327745. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3278 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3279 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3280 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3281 because the tests only now provoked it.
3282
a444213a
PH
328346. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3284 (this can affect the format of dates).
3285
0ec020ea
PH
328647. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3287 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3288 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3289 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3290
b1206957
PH
329148. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3292
329349. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3294 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3295 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3296 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3297
26dd5a95
PH
329850. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3299 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3300 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3301
343b2385
PH
330251. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3303 autoreply.
3304
1c5466b9
PH
330552. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3306 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3307 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3308 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3309 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3310 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3311 is going on).
3312
55ee9ee3
PH
331353. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3314 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3315 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3316 the line.
3317
d38f8232
PH
331854. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3319 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3320 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3321
3322 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3323 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3324 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3325 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3326 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3327 so I produce this patch..."
3328
3295e65b
PH
3329 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3330 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3331 is not defined.
3332
7102e136
PH
333355. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3334 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3335 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3336 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3337 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3338
3ca0ba97
PH
333956. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3340
c2bcbe20
PH
334157. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3342 long debug lines gets shown.
3343
18ce445d
PH
334458. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3345 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3346
1f5b4c3d
PH
334759. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3348
3349 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3350 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3351 of $primary_hostname.
3352
b975ba52
PH
335360. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3354 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3355 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3356 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3357 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3358 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3359 by change 4.50/55 above.
3360
3361 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3362 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3363 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3364 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3365 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3366 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3367 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3368
336961. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3370 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3371 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3372 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3373
17ffcae7
PH
337462. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3375 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3376
d95f9fdb
PH
337763. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3378 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3379 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3380 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3381 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3382
86b8287f
PH
338364. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3384 This has been fixed.
3385
60dc5e56
PH
338665. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3387 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3388 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3389 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3390 the caching.)
3391
533244af
PH
339266. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3393
a5a28604
PH
339467. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3395 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3396 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3397 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3398
7e634d24
PH
339968. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3400 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3401
3e11c26b
PH
340269. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3403 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3404 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3405
6729cf78
PH
340670. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3407 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3408 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3409 message there.
3410
00f00ca5
PH
341171. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3412 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3413 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3414
c9bdd01c
PH
341572. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3416 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3417 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3418 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3419
d43194df
PH
342073. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3421 during host lookups.
3422
fe5b5d0b
PH
342374. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3424 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3425
3426 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3427
76a2d7ba
PH
342875. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3429 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3430 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3431 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3432 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3433 background.
3434
343576. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3436 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3437
04f7d5b9
PH
343877. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3439 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3440 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3441
bc60667e
PH
344278. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3443
bb6e88ff
PH
344479. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3445 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3446 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3447 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3448 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3449 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3450 process earlier.
3451
1e70f85b
PH
345280. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3453 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3454 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3455 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3456 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3457
345881. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3459 tables).
3460
4e01f9d6
PH
346182. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3462
1ee1cef2
PH
346383. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3464 "vacation" handling.
3465
6e2b4ccc
PH
346684. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3467 OS variants using glibc.
3468
8e669ac1
PH
346985. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3470
495ae4b0 3471
bbe902f0
PH
3472----------------------------------------------------
3473See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3474----------------------------------------------------
3475
3476
3477Exim version 4.44
3478-----------------
3479
3480 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3481 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3482 transport
3483
3484 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3485 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3486 place.
3487
3488 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3489 filter fails to execute.
3490
3491 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3492 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3493 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3494 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3495 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3496
3497 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3498 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3499 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3500 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3501
3502 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3503 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3504 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3505 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3506 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3507
3508 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3509
3510 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3511 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3512 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3513 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3514
3515 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3516 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3517 sender verification.
3518
351910. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3520 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3521
352211. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3523 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3524
352512. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3526 ignore_target_hosts.
3527
352813. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3529 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3530 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3531 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3532 "[x.x.x.x]".
3533
353414. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3535 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3536 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3537
353815. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3539 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3540 wake it up if nothing else does.
3541
354216. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3543 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3544 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3545 end up negative.
3546
354717. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3548 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3549
ea3a6f44 355018. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3551
355219. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3553 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3554 empty pattern.
3555
355620. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3557 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3558 one IP address.
3559
ea3a6f44
NM
356021. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3561 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3562 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3563 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3564 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3565 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3566
ea3a6f44
NM
356722. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3568 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3569 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3570
357123. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3572 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3573 $sender_host_address.
3574
357524. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3576
ea3a6f44
NM
357725. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3578 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3579 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3580
358126. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3582 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3583
ea3a6f44
NM
358427. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3585 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3586
ea3a6f44
NM
358728. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3588 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3589 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3590 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3591
359229. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3593 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3594 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3595
ea3a6f44
NM
359630. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3597 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3598 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3599 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3600
ea3a6f44
NM
360131. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3602 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3603 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3604
ea3a6f44
NM
360531. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3606 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3607
ea3a6f44
NM
360832. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3609 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3610 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3611 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3612 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3613 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3614 is going on).
bbe902f0 3615
ea3a6f44
NM
361633. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3617 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3618 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3619 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3620 CAN-2005-0021
3621
ea3a6f44
NM
362234. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3623 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3624 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3625 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3626 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3627 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3628 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3629
3630 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3631 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3632 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3633 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3634 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3635 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3636 CAN-2005-0021
3637
ea3a6f44
NM
363835. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3639 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3640 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3641 CAN-2005-0022
3642
ea3a6f44
NM
364336. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3644 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3645 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3646 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3647 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3648
ea3a6f44
NM
364937. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3650 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3651 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3652 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3653 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3654
ea3a6f44
NM
365538. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3656 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3657 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3658 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3659 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3660
3661
495ae4b0
PH
3662Exim version 4.43
3663-----------------
3664
3665 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3666 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3667 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3668 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3669 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3670 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3671 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3672
3673 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3674 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3675 the delivery.
3676
3677 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3678
3679 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3680
3681 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3682 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3683 to local_scan().
3684
3685 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3686 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3687 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3688 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3689 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3690
3691 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3692 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3693
3694 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3695
3696 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3697
369810. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3699 header_sender only.
3700
370111. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3702 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3703
370412. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3705 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3706 affecting debugging statements).
3707
370813. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3709
371014. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3711 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3712 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3713 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3714 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3715 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3716 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3717 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3718 after the received time, and all would be well.
3719
372015. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3721 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3722 condition in an expansion string.
3723
372416. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3725
372617. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3727 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3728 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3729 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3730 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3731 job under whatever limits there are.
3732
373318. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3734
373519. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3736 space).
3737
373820. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3739 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3740 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3741 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3742 return path is set.
3743
374421. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3745 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3746 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3747 binary data in such strings.
3748
374922. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3750
375123. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3752 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3753 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3754 failure, which is pointless.
3755
375624. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3757
375825. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3759
376026. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3761 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3762 Sender: header lines.
3763
376427. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3765 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3766 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3767
376828. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3769 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3770 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3771 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3772 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3773 happens.
3774
377529. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3776 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3777 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3778 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3779 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3780
378130. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3782 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3783 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3784 1024.
3785
378631. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3787 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3788
378932. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3790 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3791
379233. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3793
379432. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3795
379633. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3797
379834. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3799 syntax error.
3800
380135. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3802
380336. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3804
380537. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3806 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3807 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3808 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3809
381038. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3811 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3812
3813
3814Exim version 4.42
3815-----------------
3816
3817 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3818 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3819 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3820 it was not quoted.
3821 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3822 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3823 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3824 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3825 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3826 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3827
3828 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3829 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3830 verification failure".
3831
3832 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3833 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3834 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3835 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3836
3837 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3838 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3839 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3840 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3841 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3842 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3843 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3844 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3845 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3846 treated as a timeout.
3847
3848 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3849 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3850 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3851 not set for Exim filters).
3852
3853 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3854 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3855 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3856
3857 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3858
3859 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3860 try to make them clearer.
3861
3862 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3863 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3864
3865 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3866
3867 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3868
386910. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3870 only the Cygwin environment.
3871
387211. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3873 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3874 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3875 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3876 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3877
387812. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3879 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3880 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3881 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3882 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3883 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3884 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3885
388613. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3887 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3888
388914. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3890
3891 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3892 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3893 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3894
3895 To: susanne@some.where
3896
3897 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3898 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3899 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3900 of addresses in From: header lines).
3901
3902 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3903 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3904 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3905
3906 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3907 treated as non-personal.
3908
3909 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3910 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3911
391215. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3913
391416. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3915
391617. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3917 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3918 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3919
392018. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3921 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3922
392319. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3924 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3925 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3926 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3927 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3928 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3929
393020. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3931 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3932 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3933 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3934 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3935 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3936 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3937 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3938
3939 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3940
394121. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3942 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3943
394422. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3945 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3946 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3947
394823. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3949 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3950
395124. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3952 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3953 rather than long int.
3954
395525. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3956
395726. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3958
3959
3960Exim version 4.41
3961-----------------
3962
3963 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3964 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3965 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3966 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3967 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3968 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3969
3970
3971Exim version 4.40
3972-----------------
3973
3974 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3975 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3976
3977 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3978 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3979 socklen_t is defined.
3980
3981 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3982 always exist.
3983
3984 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3985 configured.
3986
3987 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3988 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3989 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3990 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3991 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3992
3993 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3994 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3995 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3996 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3997
3998 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3999 of flapping under certain conditions.
4000
4001 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4002 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4003 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4004
4005 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4006
400710. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4008
400911. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4010 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4011 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4012 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4013
401412. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4015 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4016 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4017 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4018 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4019 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4020 preserved with the message after it was received.
4021
402213. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4023 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4024 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4025 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4026 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4027 test suite worked just fine.
4028
402914. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4030 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4031 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4032
403315. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4034 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4035 string.
4036
403716. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4038 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4039 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4040 does not fully solve it.
4041
404217. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4043 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4044 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4045 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4046 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4047
404818. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4049 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4050 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4051
405219. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4053 string, for example:
4054
4055 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4056
4057 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4058 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4059 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4060 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4061 the routers could not see them.
4062
406320. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4064 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4065
406621. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4067 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4068 output).
4069
407022. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4071 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4072 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4073 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4074 that needed quoting.
4075
407623. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4077 was not being matched caselessly.
4078
407924. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4080 backslashes.
4081
408225. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4083 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4084 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4085 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4086 when use_sender is false.
4087
408826. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4089
409027. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4091
409228. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4093
409429. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4095 the configuration file.
4096
409730. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4098 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4099
410031. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4101
410232. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4103 bytes in the message body.
4104
410533. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4106 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4107 delivery.
4108
410934. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4110
411135. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4112
411336. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4114 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4115 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4116 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4117 another IP address.
4118
4119
4120Exim version 4.34
4121-----------------
4122
4123 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4124 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4125
4126 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4127 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4128 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4129 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4130 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4131
4132 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4133 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4134
4135 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4136 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4137 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4138
4139 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4140 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4141 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4142
4143 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4144 for routers.
4145
4146 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4147 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4148 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4149 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4150 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4151 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4152 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4153
4154
4155Exim version 4.33
4156-----------------
4157
4158 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4159 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4160 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4161 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4162 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4163 default (and expected) setting.
4164
4165 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4166 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4167 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4168 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4169
4170 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4171 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4172
4173 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4174 in domain lists.
4175
4176 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4177 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4178 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4179 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4180 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4181 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4182
4183 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4184 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4185 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4186
4187 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4188 part (NOT match_host).
4189
4190 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4191
4192 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4193 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4194 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4195 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4196 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4197 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4198 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4199 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4200 the same named file.
4201
420210. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4203 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4204 when Exim is built.
4205
420611. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4207 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4208 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4209 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4210 a host name.
4211
421212. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4213 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4214 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4215
421613. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4217
421814. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4219
422015. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4221
422216. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4223 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4224
422517. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4226 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4227 before starting the TLS session.
4228
422918. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4230
423119. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4232 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4233
423420. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4235 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4236 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4237 colon in the middle).
4238
4239
4240Exim version 4.32
4241-----------------
4242
4243 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4244 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4245 multiple configurations are in use.
4246
4247 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4248 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4249 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4250 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4251 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4252 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4253
4254 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4255 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4256
4257 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4258 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4259 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4260
4261 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4262 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4263 occurs.
4264
4265 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4266 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4267
4268 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4269
4270 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4271 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4272
4273 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4274
4275 -prval:sval
4276
4277 is equivalent to
4278
4279 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4280
4281 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4282 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4283 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4284 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4285 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4286
428710. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4288 Exim's behaviour:
4289
4290 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4291 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4292 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4293 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4294 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4295 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4296
4297 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4298 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4299 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4300 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4301 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4302 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4303 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4304 string.
4305
4306 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4307 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4308 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4309 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4310 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4311
431211. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4313
431412. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4315 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4316 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4317
431813. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4319
432014. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4321 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4322 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4323 information.
4324
432515. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4326 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4327
432816. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4329 Three changes have been made:
4330
4331 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4332 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4333 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4334 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4335 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4336
4337 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4338 been restored.
4339
4340 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4341 the modified behaviour.
4342
4343
4344Exim version 4.31
4345-----------------
4346
4347 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4348 Larry Rosenman.
4349
4350 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4351 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4352
4353 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4354 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4355 try to track down a specific problem.
4356
4357 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4358 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4359 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4360
4361 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4362 warning.
4363
4364 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4365 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4366 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4367 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4368 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4369 some earlier ones do not.
4370
4371 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4372
4373 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4374 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4375 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4376 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4377 address literals are enabled, of course).
4378
4379 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4380
438110. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4382 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4383 by a command such as
4384
4385 exim -f "" ...
4386
4387 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4388
438911. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4390
439112. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4392 remained set. It is now erased.
4393
439413. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4395 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4396
439714. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4398 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4399 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4400 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4401 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4402 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4403 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4404 appropriate error code.
4405
440615. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4407 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4408 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4409 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4410 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4411 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4412
441316. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4414 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4415 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4416
441717. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4418 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4419 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4420 terminate the header.
4421
442218. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4423 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4424 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4425
442619. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4427 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4428 (4.30/29). In particular:
4429
4430 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4431 imposed.
4432
4433 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4434 to write a maildirsize file.
4435
4436 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4437 the transport, the new value overrides.
4438
4439 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4440 count.
4441
444220. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4443 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4444 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4445 space or a tab.
4446
444721. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4448 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4449 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4450 the fallback hosts.
4451
445222. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4453 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4454 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4455
445623. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4457 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4458 using a union.
4459
446024. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4461 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4462 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4463
446425. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4465
446626. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4467
446827. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4469
447028. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4471 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4472 become corrupted.
4473
447429. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4475 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4476 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4477 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4478 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4479 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4480 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4481 too great.
4482
448330. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4484 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4485 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4486 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4487 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4488 incorrectly.
4489
449031. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4491 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4492 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4493 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4494 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4495 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4496 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4497 cached value only when the same options are set.
4498
449932. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4500
450133. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4502 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4503 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4504 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4505 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4506
450734: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4508 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4509 it is clearly obsolete.
4510
451135. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4512 transport.
4513
451436. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4515 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4516 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4517 times.
4518
451937. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4520 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4521 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4522 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4523 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4524
452538. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4526 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4527 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4528 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4529
453039. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4531
4532 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4533
4534 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4535 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4536 2^31.
4537
453840. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4539 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4540 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4541 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4542 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4543 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4544 $localpart_data.
4545
454641. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4547 with the -f command-line option.
4548
454942. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4550 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4551 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4552 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4553 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4554 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4555
455643. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4557 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4558 line.
4559
456044. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4561 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4562 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4563 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4564 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4565 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4566 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4567 buffer is too small.
4568
456945. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4570 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4571
457246. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4573 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4574 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4575 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4576 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4577 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4578 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4579 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4580 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4581
458247. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4583 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4584 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4585
458648. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4587 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4588 ACL").
4589
459049. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4591 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4592 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4593 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4594 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4595
459650. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4597 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4598 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4599 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4600 is set.
4601
460251. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4603
460452. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4605
460653. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4607 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4608
460954. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4610 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4611 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4612
461355. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4614 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4615 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4616 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4617 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4618
461956. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4620 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4621 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4622 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4623 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4624 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4625 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4626
462757. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4628 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4629 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4630 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4631 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4632 the test of how many are available.
4633
463458. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4635 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4636 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4637 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4638 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4639 new message is started.
4640
464159. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4642 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4643
464460. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4645 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4646
464761. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4648 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4649 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4650 is no long logged.
4651
465262. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4653 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4654 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4655 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4656 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4657 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4658 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4659
466063. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4661 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4662 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4663 interpreted as octal.
4664
466564. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4666 setting.
4667
466865. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4669 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4670 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4671 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4672 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4673 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4674
467566. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4676 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4677 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4678 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4679
4680 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4681 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4682 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4683 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4684
4685 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4686 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4687 is a bug fix.
4688
4689 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4690 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4691
469267. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4693
469468. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4695 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4696 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4697 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4698
469969. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4700 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4701 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4702 supplied", which is not helpful.
4703
470470. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4705 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4706 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4707
470871. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4709 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4710 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4711 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4712 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4713 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4714 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4715 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4716
471772. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4718 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4719 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4720 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4721 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4722
472373. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4724 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4725 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4726 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4727 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4728 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4729
473074. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4731 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4732 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4733
473475. Added write_rejectlog option.
4735
473676. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4737 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4738 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4739 variables.
4740
474177. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4742
474378. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4744 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4745 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4746 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4747 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4748 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4749 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4750 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4751
475279. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4753 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4754 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4755 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4756 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4757
475880. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4759 Haardt.
4760
476181. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4762 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4763 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4764 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4765 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4766 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4767 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4768 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4769 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4770
4771
4772Exim version 4.30
4773-----------------
4774
4775 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4776 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4777 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4778
4779 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4780 fixed.
4781
4782 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4783 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4784 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4785
4786 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4787 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4788 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4789 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4790 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4791 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4792
4793 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4794 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4795 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4796 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4797 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4798 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4799 the Exim test suite.
4800
4801 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4802 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4803 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4804 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4805
4806 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4807 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4808 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4809 specify it in this variable.
4810
4811 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4812 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4813 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4814 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4815
4816 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4817 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4818 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4819 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4820
4821 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4822 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4823 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4824 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4825 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4826
4827 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4828
482910. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4830 they are logged.
4831
483211. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4833 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4834 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4835 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4836 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4837
483812. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4839 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4840
484113. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4842 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4843 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4844 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4845 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4846
484714. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4848 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4849
485015. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4851 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4852 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4853
485416. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4855 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4856
485717. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4858 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4859
486018. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4861 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4862 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4863
486419. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4865 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4866
486720. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4868 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4869 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4870 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4871
487221. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4873
487422. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4875 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4876 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4877 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4878
487923. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4880
488124. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4882 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4883
488425. Added .include_if_exists.
4885
488626. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4887 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4888 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4889 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4890 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4891 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4892
489327. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4894
489528. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4896 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4897 this.
4898
489929. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4900
490130. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4902 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4903
4904 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4905 550 Sender verify failed
4906
4907 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4908 the final line of the response.
4909
491031. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4911 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4912 all other user lookups.
4913
491432. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4915 delivery time.
4916
491733. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4918 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4919 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4920 result into an int without checking.
4921
492234. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4923 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4924 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4925
492635. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4927 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4928 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4929 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4930
493136. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4932 correctly.
4933
493437. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4935 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4936
493738. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4938 to the empty sender.
4939
494039. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4941 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4942 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4943 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4944 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4945 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4946 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4947 panic log.
4948
494940. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4950 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4951 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4952 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4953 used.
4954
495541. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4956 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4957
495842. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4959 timestamps.
4960
496143. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4962 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4963
496444. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4965
496645. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4967 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4968 logs.
4969
497046. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4971 as soon as it is encountered.
4972
497347. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4974
497548. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4976 rewritten to "<>".
4977
497849. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4979 recognizes a tab character.
4980
498150. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4982 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4983 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4984 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4985
498651. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4987
498852. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4989 crash.
4990
499153. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4992
499354. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4994
499555. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4996 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4997 2822.
4998
499956. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5000 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5001 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5002 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5003 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5004
500557. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5006 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5007
500858. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5009 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5010 list (.included file names were always shown).
5011
501259. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5013 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5014 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5015 root at that time.
5016
501760. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5018 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5019
502061. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5021
502262. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5023
502463. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5025
502664. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5027 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5028 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5029 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5030 failures to open the logs.
5031
503265. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5033 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5034 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5035 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5036 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5037 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5038 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5039
5040
5041Exim version 4.24
5042-----------------
5043
5044 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5045 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5046 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5047 change 4.23/1.
5048
5049 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5050 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5051 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5052
5053 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5054 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5055 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5056
5057 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5058 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5059 causing some misleading effects.
5060
5061 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5062 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5063 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5064
5065 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5066 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5067 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5068 queue-runner function directly.
5069
5070
5071Exim version 4.23
5072-----------------
5073
5074 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5075 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5076
5077 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5078 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5079 was always written to the default place.
5080
5081 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5082 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5083 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5084
5085 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5086
5087 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5088
5089 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5090 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5091 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5092
5093 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5094 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5095 must start.
5096
5097 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5098 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5099 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5100
5101 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5102 command line option is disabled.
5103
5104 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5105 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5106
5107 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5108
5109 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5110
5111 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5112 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5113
511410. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5115
511611. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5117 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5118 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5119 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5120 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5121 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5122
512312. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5124 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5125 timeout.
5126
512713. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5128 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5129
513014. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5131 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5132
513315. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5134 received was valid base64.
5135
513616. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5137 name of the variable that was being set.
5138
513917. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5140
514118. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5142 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5143 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5144 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5145 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5146 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5147
514819. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5149
515020. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5151 nor realm was specified.
5152
515321. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5154 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5155 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5156 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5157
515822. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5159 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5160 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5161
516223. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5163 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5164 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5165
516624. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5167 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5168 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5169 some systems use these upper case variants.
5170
517125. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5172 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5173 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5174 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5175
517626. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5177
517827. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5179 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5180
518128. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5182 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5183 expansion variable.
5184
518529. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5186
518730. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5188 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5189 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5190 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5191
519231. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5193 using it.
5194
519532. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5196 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5197 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5198
519933. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5200 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5201
520234. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5203 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5204 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5205 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5206
520735. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5208 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5209 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5210
521136. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5212
521337. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5214 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5215 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5216 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5217 aborted.
5218
521938. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5220 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5221 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5222
522339. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5224
522540. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5226 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5227
522841. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5229 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5230
523142. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5232 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5233 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5234 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5235 when emails are that large.
5236
5237
5238
5239Exim version 4.22
5240-----------------
5241
5242 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5243 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5244
5245 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5246 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5247 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5248
5249 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5250 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5251 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5252
5253 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5254 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5255 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5256 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5257 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5258
5259 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5260 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5261 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5262 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5263 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5264 ever.
5265
5266 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5267 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5268 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5269 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5270 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5271 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5272 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5273 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5274 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5275 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5276 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5277 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5278 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5279 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5280
5281 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5282 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5283 parameterised it.
5284
5285 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5286 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5287 error should be diagnosed.
5288
5289 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5290 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5291 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5292 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5293 appeared instead of "NULL".
5294
529510. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5296 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5297 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5298 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5299 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5300 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5301 proceeds).
5302
5303 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5304 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5305 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5306
5307
5308Exim version 4.21
5309-----------------
5310
5311 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5312 or receiver verification errors.
5313
5314 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5315 name.
5316
5317 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5318 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5319 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5320 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5321
5322 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5323 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5324 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5325 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5326 shouldn't happen again.
5327
5328 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5329 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5330 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5331
5332 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5333 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5334
5335 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5336
5337 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5338 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5339
5340 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5341 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5342 RFC.
5343
534410. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5345 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5346 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5347
534811. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5349 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5350 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5351 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5352
535312. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5354 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5355 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5356 to define what should happen).
5357
535813. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5359 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5360 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5361
536214. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5363
536415. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5365
536616. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5367 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5368
536917. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5370 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5371 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5372 structure in all cases.
5373
5374 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5375 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5376 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5377 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5378
537918. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5380 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5381 domain name.
5382
538319. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5384 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5385
538620. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5387 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5388
538921. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5390 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5391 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5392
539322. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5394 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5395 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5396
539723. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5398 the book and for uniformity.
5399
540024. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5401
540225. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5403 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5404 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5405 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5406 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5407 non-existent command as the problem.
5408
540926. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5410 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5411 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5412
541327. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5414
541528. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5416 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5417 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5418
541929. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5420 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5421 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5422 timestamps using strftime().
5423
542430. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5425 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5426
542732. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5428 transport-time rewrites.
5429
543033. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5431 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5432 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5433 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5434
543534. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5436 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5437
543835. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5439 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5440 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5441 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5442 comma and a space.
5443
544436. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5445 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5446 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5447 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5448 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5449 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5450 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5451
545237. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5453 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5454 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5455 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5456 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5457
545838. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5459 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5460 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5461 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5462 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5463 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5464 remaining text gets split now.
5465
546639. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5467 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5468 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5469 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5470
547140. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5472 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5473 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5474 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5475 $return_path.
5476
547741. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5478 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5479 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5480 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5481 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5482 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5483 passed through if needed.
5484
548542. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5486 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5487 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5488 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5489 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5490 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5491
549243. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5493 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5494 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5495 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5496 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5497
549844. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5499 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5500 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5501 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5502 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5503
550445. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5505 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5506 noticed.
5507
550846. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5509 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5510 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5511 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5512 mayhem of various kinds.
5513
551447. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5515 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5516 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5517 the right test for positive values.
5518
551948. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5520 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5521 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5522 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5523 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5524 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5525 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5526 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5527 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5528 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5529 envelope.
5530
553149. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5532 module.
5533
553450. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5535 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5536 forbidding it.
5537
553851. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5539 the existing equality matching.
5540
554152. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5542 dealing with inode numbers.
5543
554453. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5545 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5546 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5547
554854. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5549 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5550 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5551 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5552 local_scan().
5553
555455. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5555 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5556 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5557 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5558 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5559 relay addresses has also been removed.
5560
556156. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5562
556357. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5564 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5565 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5566
556758. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5568 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5569 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5570 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5571 processing applies to CR:
5572
5573 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5574 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5575
5576 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5577 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5578 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5579 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5580
558159. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5582 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5583 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5584
558560. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5586 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5587 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5588 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5589 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5590 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5591 arisen.
5592
559361. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5594 program routers.
5595
559662. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5597 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5598 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5599 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5600 adds:
5601
5602 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5603
5604 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5605
5606 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5607
560863. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5609 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5610 not considered personal.
5611
561264. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5613
561465. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5615
561666. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5617
561867. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5619 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5620 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5621 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5622 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5623 header lines, and spool format errors.
5624
562568. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5626 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5627 for more flexibility.
5628
562969. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5630 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5631 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5632
563370. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5634 Sabourenkov.
5635
563671. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5637 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5638 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5639 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5640 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5641 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5642 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5643 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5644 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5645
564672. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5647 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5648 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5649 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5650 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5651 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5652 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5653
565473. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5655 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5656 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5657
565874. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5659 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5660 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5661 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5662 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5663 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5664 instead of killing the process with assert().
5665
566675. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5667 than Unicode encoding.
5668
566976. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5670 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5671 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5672 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5673
567477. Added process_log_path.
5675
567678. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5677 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5678
567979. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5680 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5681
568280. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5683 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5684 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5685
568681. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5687 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5688 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5689 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5690 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5691 were applied:
5692
5693 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5694 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5695 as invalid.
5696
569782. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5698 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5699 they will be used during message reception.
5700
5701
5702Exim version 4.20
5703-----------------
5704
5705The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5706
5707****