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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Since Exim version 4.90
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11JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
12 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
13 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
14 extant use locations.
15
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16JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
17 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
18
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19JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
20 Previously only the last row was returned.
21
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22JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
23 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
24 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
25 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
26 input.
27
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28JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
29 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
30 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
31 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
32 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
33 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
34 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
35 Main pool for expansions.
36 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
37 active in the testsuite.
38 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
39
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40JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
41 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
42 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
43 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
44 round-robin DNS.
45
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46JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
47 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
48 failure response.
49
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50JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
51 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
52 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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54JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
55 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
56 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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58JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
59 rows affected is given instead).
60
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61JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
62 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
63
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64JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
65 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
66 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
67 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
68 for all multi-message initiating connections.
69
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70JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
71 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
72 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
73
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74JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
75 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
76 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
77 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
78 separate.
79
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80JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
81 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
82 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
83 fake-reject.
84
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85HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
86
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87JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
88 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
89
aab9a843 90PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 91 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 92 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 93
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94JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
95 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
96 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
97 and send a quit.
98
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99JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
100 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
101
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102JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
103 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
104 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
105
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109
110JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
111 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
112 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
113 pairs of long lines into single ones.
114
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115PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
116 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
117
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118JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
119 This permits better logging.
120
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121JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
122 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
123 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
124 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
125 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 126 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 127
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128JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
129 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
130 "exiwhat" output.
131
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132PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
133 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
134 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
135
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136JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
137 than 255 are no longer allowed.
138
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139JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
140 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
141 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
142 client, there is no benefit for these.
143 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
144 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
145 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
146 is used (3.2.4 +).
147
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148PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
149 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
150
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151JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
152 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
153 erroneously found still-pending ones.
154
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155JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
156 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
157
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158JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
159 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
160 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
161 signature and again for transmission.
162
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163JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
164 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 165 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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167JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
168 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
169 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
170 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
171 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
172 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
173 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
174
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175JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
176 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
177 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 178 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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180PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
181 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
182 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
183 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
184 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
185 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
186 processing options.
187
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188JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
189 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
190 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
191 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
192 connections.
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194PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
195 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
196 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
197 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
198 versions.
199
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200JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
201 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
202 inaccessible.
203
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204JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
205 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
206 banner-time rejection.
207
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208JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
209 callout/hold.
210
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211PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
212 is the name of a transport.
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213 Fixes bug 2140.
214
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215HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
216
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217JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
218 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
219
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220JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
221 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
222 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
223 during compilation.
224
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225JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
226 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
227 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 228 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 229
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230JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
231 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
232 initial verify call returned a defer.
233
ad1a76fe 234JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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235 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
236
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237JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
238 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
239
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240JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
241 if present. Previously it was ignored.
242
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243JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
244 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
245
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246JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
247 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
248 extensible.
249
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250PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
251 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
252
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253PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
254 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
255 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
256
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257JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
258 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
259 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
260 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
261
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262HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
263 and confused the parent.
264
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265JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
266 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
267
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268JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
269 for log purposes.
270
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271JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
272 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
273 out-of-order delivery.
274
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275JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
276 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
277 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
278 error for the HELO.
279
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280JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
281 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
282 desynchronisation.
283
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284JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
285 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
286 one run was done. Bug 2189.
287
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288JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
289 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
290 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
291 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
292 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
293 message is still "Temporary local problem".
294
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295JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
296 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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297 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
298
299HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
300 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
301 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
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303JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
304 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
305 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
306 though a different problem.
307
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9427e879 312JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 313 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 314
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315JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
316
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317PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
318 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
319
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320JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
321 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
322
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323JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
324 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
325 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
326 before acknowledging the chunk.
327
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328PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
329 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
330 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
331
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332JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
333 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
334 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
335 should.
336
337JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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338 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
339 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 341JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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342 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
343
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344JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
345 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
346 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
347 body hash calculated value.
348
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349JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
350 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
351 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
352
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353JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
354
355JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
356 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
357
358JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
359 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
360 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
361
362JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
363 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
364 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
365 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
366 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
367 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
368
369JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
370 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
371 past that check, despite the cost.
372
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373JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
374 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
375 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
376
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377PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
378 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
379 TLS library to consume.
380
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381PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
382
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383PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
384
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385JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
386 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
387 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
388 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
389 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
390 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
391 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
392
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393PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
394
395PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
396
397PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
398 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
399 should be warning-free.
400
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401JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
402
403HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
404 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
405
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406HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
407 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
408 general solution here.
409
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410PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
411 already-broken messages in the queue.
412
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413JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
414
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415JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
416
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421JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
422 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 423
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424JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
425 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
426 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
427
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428JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
429 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
430 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
431 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
432 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
433 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
434 if one fails this test.
435 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
436 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
437
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438JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
439 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
440
23bb6982 441JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 442 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 443
0bd1b1ed 444JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 445 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 446
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447JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
448 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
449
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450JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
451 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
452
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453JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
454
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455JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
456 certificate).
457
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458JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
459 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
460 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
461 connection after a verify cache hit.
462 Do not update it with the verify result either.
463
464JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
465 when routing results in more than one destination address.
466
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467JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
468 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
469 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
470 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
471 when the cutthrough connection is made).
472
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473JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
474 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
475
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476JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
477 Previously they were not counted.
478
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479JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
480 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
481 that needed the lookup.
482
4c04137d 483JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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484 distinguished as "(=".
485
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486JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
487 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
488
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489JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
490
491JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
492 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 493
4c04137d 494JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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495 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
496
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497JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
498 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
499 compatible.
500
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501JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
502 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
503 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
504 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
505
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506JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
507
f59aaaaa 508JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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509 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
510 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 511
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512JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
513 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
514 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
515 be lost.
516
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517JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
518 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
519 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
520 itself :(
521
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522JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
523 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
524 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
525
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526JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
527 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
528 options.
529
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530JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
531
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532PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
533 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
534
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535PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
536 are not in the system include path.
537
ad7fc6eb 538JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 539 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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540 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
541 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 542
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543JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
544 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
545 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
546
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547JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
548
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549HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
550 an incoming connection.
551
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552HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
553 to rspamd.
554
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555HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
556 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 557
87cb4a16 558JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 559 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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560
561
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565JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
566 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
567 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
568 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 569
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570TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
571 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
572
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573TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
574 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
575 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
576 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
577 outgoing I= field.
578
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579JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
580 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
581 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
582 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
583 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
584 check on the next write.
585
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586HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
587 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
588 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
589 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
590 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
591
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592JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
593 mime_regex ACL conditions.
594
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595JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
596 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
597 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
598
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599JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
600 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
601 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
602 an authenticate fail is not an error.
603
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604HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
605 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
606
4c04137d 607JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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608 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
609
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610JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
611 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
612 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
613 distinct.
614
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615JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
616
617JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
618
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619JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
620
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621JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
622 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
623
98b98887 624JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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625 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
626
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627JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
628
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629JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
630 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
631
632JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
633
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634JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
635 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
636
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637JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
638
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639JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
640 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 641 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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642 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
643 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
644 they will retry in-clear.
645 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
646 at installation time.
647
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648HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
649 with the $config_file variable.
650
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651JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
652 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
653 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
654 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 655 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
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657GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
658 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
659 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
660 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
661 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
662
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663JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
664
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665JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
666 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
667 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
668 list order is no longer honoured.
669
4c04137d 670JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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671 for DKIM processing.
672
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673JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
674 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 675
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676JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
677 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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678 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
679 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 680
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681JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
682 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
683
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684JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
685 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
686
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687JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
688 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
689
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690JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
691
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692JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
693 cached by the daemon.
694
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695JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
696 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
697
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698JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
699 keys are given for lookup.
700
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701JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
702 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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703 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
704 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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706JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
707 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
708 server-side so match that on older versions.
709
07c73177 710JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 711 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 712 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 713
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714JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
715 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
716
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717JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
718 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
719 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 720 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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721 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
722 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
723 initial truncated version.
724
ab9152ff 725JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 726
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727JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
728
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729JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
730 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
731
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732JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
733
bc3c7bb7 734HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 735
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736JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
737 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
738 induced overflows.
739
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740JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
741 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
742 stage.
743
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744JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
745 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
746
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747JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
748 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
749 former class.
750
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751JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
752 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
753 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
754
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755JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
756 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
757 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
758 extraction. Accept either.
759
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764JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
765 expanded.
766
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767JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
768
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769JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
770 it.
771
01a4a5c5 772JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 773 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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774 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
775 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
776
cb1d7830 777JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 778 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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779 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
780
610ff438 781JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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782 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
783 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
784 TLS connections
610ff438 785
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786JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
787 sites use this now.
788
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789JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
790 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
791 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
792 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
793 have a dsn_lasthop option.
794
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795JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
796 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 797 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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799JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
800
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801JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
802 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
803
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804JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
805 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
806
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807JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
808 /defer_ok option.
809
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810JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
811 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
812
fd4d8871 813JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 814 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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815 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
816
817JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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818 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
819 specify a port-range.
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821JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
822 timeout value per server.
823
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824JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
825 now have the list separator specified.
826
8a512ed5 827JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 828 option values.
8a512ed5 829
82c0c8ea 830JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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831 under OpenSSL.
832
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833JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
834
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835JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
836 rather than the verbs used.
837
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838JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
839 from 255 to 1024 chars.
840
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841JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
842
cfab9d68 843HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 844 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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846JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
847 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
848
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849HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
850 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
851
4c04137d 852JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
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854JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
855
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856JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
857 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 858 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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859 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
860
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861JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
862
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863JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
864 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
865
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866JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
867 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
868
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869JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
870
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871JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
872
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873JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
874
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875JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
876 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
877
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878JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
879 added for tls authenticator.
880
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881HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
882
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887TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
888 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
889 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
890 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
891 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
892 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
893 the script parsing/test process like normal.
894
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895TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
896 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
897 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
898 function when detected.
899
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900JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
901 cause callback expansion.
902
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903TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
904 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
905 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
906 instead of bool when processing it.
907
0f06b4f2 908JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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909 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
910
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911JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
912
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913JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
914
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915TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
916
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917TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
918 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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920JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
921 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
922 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
923 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 924 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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925 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
926
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927JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
928 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
929 exceeded it.
930
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931JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
932 version 3.3.6 or later.
933
4c04137d 934JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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935 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
936 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 937 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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939 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
940 option is defined.
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942TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
943 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
944
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945JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
946 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
947 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
948 matches.
949
e9477a08
JH
950JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
951 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
952 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
953
ad4c5ff9
JH
954JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
955 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
JH
956
957JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
958 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
959 syntax errors.
960
3394b36a 961JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
962
963JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
964 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
965
3394b36a
TL
966TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
967 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
968 tarball.
969
ad4c5ff9
JH
970JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
971
4c04137d 972JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
973 Bug 1561.
974
975JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
976 output list separator was used.
977
8bc732e8 978
1f0ebb98
TL
979Exim version 4.84
980-----------------
09728d20
TL
981TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
982 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
983 return.
1f0ebb98 984
a612424f 985JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 986 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
JH
987
988JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
989
990TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 991 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 992
1f0ebb98 993
c0e56233
TF
994Exim version 4.83
995-----------------
996
997TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
998
999 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1000 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1001 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1002 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1003 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1004 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1005
7245734e
TF
1006TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1007 utilities have not been installed.
1008
fd5dad68
JH
1009JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1010 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1011
5428a946
TL
1012TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1013 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1014
a3c86431
TL
1015TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1016 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
TL
1017 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1018 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1019
aa26e137
JH
1020JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1021
5a1b8443
WB
1022TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1023 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1024
72c9e342
PP
1025PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1026 not dns_use_dnssec.
1027
76f44207
WB
1028JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1029
770747fd
MFM
1030TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1031 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1032 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1033
8ddef691 1034TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
1035 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1036 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1037 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1038 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1039 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1040
b9c2e32f
AR
1041JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1042
e45a1c37
JH
1043JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1044 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1045
67d81c10
JH
1046JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1047 failed delivery.
1048
b1f8e4f8
JH
1049JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1050
511a6c14 1051JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1052
1053JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1054 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1055
51c7471d
JH
1056JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1057 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1058
3695be34
TL
1059TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1060
1e06383a
TL
1061JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1062
76146973
JH
1063JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1064 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1065
1066 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1067 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1068 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1069
8c8b8274
TL
1070TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1071 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1072 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1073 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1074
35aba663
JH
1075JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1076
8c51eead 1077JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1078 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1079 lookup).
8c51eead 1080
deae092e
HS
1081TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1082 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1083 Schlichting.
35aba663 1084
fd3b6a4a 1085JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1086 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1087
8d91c6dc
LT
1088TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1089 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1090
2b4a568d
JH
1091JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1092
d2af03f4
HS
1093TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1094 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1095 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1096
9d1c15ef
JH
1097JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1098 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1099
44662487
JH
1100JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1101 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1102 hosts_request_ocsp.
1103
ed3bba5f 1104JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1105 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1106 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1107
8ccd00b1
JH
1108JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1109
8ded8589
TL
1110TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1111 Christian Aistleitner.
1112
f2de3a33
JH
1113JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1114
6eb02f88
TL
1115TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1116 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1117
00bff6f6
JH
1118JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1119 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1120
071c51f7
JH
1121JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1122 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1123
a6d4c44e
TF
1124TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1125 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1126
3ae173e7
ACK
1127TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1128 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1129
c13d09b8
TL
1130TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1131 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1132 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1133
0df4ab80
JH
1134JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1135
66be95e0
PP
1136PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1137 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1138 Jasper Wallace.
1139
1bd0d12b
JH
1140JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1141
0de7239e
TL
1142TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1143 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1144 CVE-2014-2972
1145
fd3b6a4a 1146
2c422e6f 1147Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1148-----------------
1149
1150PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1151
12f69989
PP
1152PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1153 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1154
54c90be1
PP
1155PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1156 by GnuTLS.
1157
1f4a55da
PP
1158PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1159 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1160 routines.
1161
13363eba 1162PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1163
66645890 1164PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1165 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1166 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1167 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1168 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1169
a3fb9793 1170PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1171 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1172 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1173 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1174 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1175 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1176
d27f98fe 1177TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1178
6822b909
TL
1179TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1180
e7568d51
TL
1181TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1182 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1183
ae0e32ee 1184TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1185 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1186 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1187
1188TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1189
e2658fff
TL
1190TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1191
83712b39
TL
1192TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1193 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1194
976b7e9f
JH
1195JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1196
be4a1376
JH
1197JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1198
ec4b68e5
PP
1199PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1200
d7148a07
NM
1201NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1202 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1203
585121e2 1204JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1205
2519e60d
TL
1206PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1207 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1208 function.
a5f239e4 1209
13d08c90
PP
1210PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1211 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1212
bef3ea7f
JH
1213JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1214 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1215 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1216
846726c5
JH
1217JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1218
3a796370
JH
1219JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1220
ea722490 1221JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1222 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1223
b1b05573
JH
1224JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1225 Bugzilla 884.
1226
362145b5
JH
1227JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1228 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1229
3c0a92dc
JH
1230JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1231 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1232
6d7c6175
PP
1233PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1234 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1235 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1236
6f123593
JH
1237JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1238 authenticators.
1239
c8e2fc1e
JH
1240JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1241 for control.
1242
005ac57f
PP
1243PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1244
3f1df0e3
PP
1245PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1246 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1247 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1248 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1249
67bd1ab3
TF
1250TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1251
1252 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1253 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1254 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1255 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1256 the retry rules.
1257
1258 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1259 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1260 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1261
1262 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1263 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1264 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1265 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1266
1ddeb334
TF
1267 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1268 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1269 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1270 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1271 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1272 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1273 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1274
1275 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1276 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1277
326cdc37
TF
1278TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1279
1280 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1281
1282 Resent-From: f
1283
1284 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1285 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1286 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1287 username as equal to the username.
1288
1289 This change corrects that bug.
1290
f62514b3
GF
1291GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1292 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1293 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1294
eb505532
TF
1295TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1296
14c7b357
PP
1297PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1298 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1299 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1300 NULL dereference and crash.
1301
94eaf700
PP
1302JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1303
6f5a440a
PP
1304PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1305 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1306 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1307
514ee161
SC
1308SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1309
fd98a5c6
JH
1310JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1311 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1312 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1313 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1314 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1315 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1316 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1317 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1318 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1319 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1320 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1321
035c7f1e
PP
1322PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1323 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1324
ff284120
PP
1325PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1326 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1327 Bugzilla 880.
1328
26e72755
PP
1329PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1330 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1331 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1332 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1333 an empty string is now equivalent.
1334
0fbd9bff
PP
1335PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1336 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1337 not performing validation itself.
1338
700d22f3
PP
1339PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1340 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1341
fcc8e047
JH
1342JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1343 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1344
4c04137d 1345TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1346
8c020188
PP
1347PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1348 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1349 other false fix of the same issue.
1350 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1351 Bugzilla 1363.
1352
d13cdd30
PP
1353PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1354 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1355
e2fbf4a2
PP
1356PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1357 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1358 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1359
f4c1088b
PP
1360PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1361 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1362 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1363
c5c2182f
PP
1364TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1365
73431ca9
JH
1366JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1367
2d07a215
TL
1368TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1369 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1370
a30a8861
TL
1371TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1372 Alexander Miroch.
1373
33382dd9
TL
1374TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1375 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1376 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1377 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1378 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1379
046172e6
TL
1380TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1381 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1382
581d7bee 1383TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1384 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1385 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1386
1387TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1388 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1389 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1390 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1391
237b2cf2
TL
1392TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1393
9fc5a352
TL
1394TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1395 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1396 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1397
b10e4ec2
TL
1398TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1399
e2cebd74
TL
1400TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1401 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1402 interaction.
1403
1404TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1405 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1406
2519e60d
TL
1407TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1408 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1409
e78e6ecf 1410
4263f395
PP
1411Exim version 4.80.1
1412-------------------
1413
1414PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1415 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1416 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1417
ea722490 1418
b1770b6e 1419Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1420-----------------
1421
1422PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1423 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1424 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1425
23c7e742
NM
1426NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1427
b322aac8
NM
1428NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1429 improved.
1430
4a891427
NM
1431NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1432
c1e794ba 1433PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1434
97753960
PP
1435PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1436
1437PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1438 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1439
df6303fa
PP
1440PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1441 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1442
7e6a8985
PP
1443PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1444 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1445
f1e05cc7 1446PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1447 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1448 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1449
4c287009
PP
1450PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1451
b98bb9ac
PP
1452PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1453 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1454
4a6a987a
PP
1455PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1456
c45dd180 1457PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1458
7db8d074
PP
1459PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1460 non-compliant senders.
1461 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1462
eae0036b 1463NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1464 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1465 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1466
dec5017e
PP
1467PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1468 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1469 in spool file corruption.
1470
c80c5570
PP
1471PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1472 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1473 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1474 "Got SSL error 2".
1475
076b11e2
PP
1476TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1477 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1478 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1479
5407bfff
JH
1480JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1481 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1482
9e45c72b
PP
1483JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1484
e74376d8
PP
1485PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1486 diagnostics.
1487 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1488
4c04137d 1489PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1490 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1491 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1492
7be682ca
PP
1493PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1494 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1495 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1496 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1497
ef840681
PP
1498PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1499 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1500
5bfb4cdf
PP
1501PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1502 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1503 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1504 resolver implementation change.
1505
c6e95d22
PP
1506PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1507 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1508
9cbad13b
PP
1509PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1510
9ee44efb
PP
1511PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1512
6a6084f8
PP
1513PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1514 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1515
12dd53c7
PP
1516PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1517 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1518
9e45c72b 1519JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1520 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1521
17c76198
PP
1522PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1523 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1524 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1525 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1526 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1527
53947857 1528PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1529
eae0036b 1530PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1531 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1532 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1533
9e45c72b 1534JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1535
7390e768
PP
1536PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1537 read-only, out of scope).
1538 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1539
08488c86
PP
1540PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1541 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1542 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1543 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1544
6475bd82
PP
1545PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1546
81f91683
PP
1547PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1548 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1549 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1550 real issues in debug logging.
1551
5779e6aa
PP
1552PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1553 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1554
3375e053
PP
1555PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1556 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1557 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1558
1559PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1560 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1561 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1562 problems.
3375e053 1563
9d26b8c0
PP
1564PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1565 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1566
57eb9e91 1567PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1568 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1569 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1570 needs to override this, it can.
1571
16880d1a
PP
1572PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1573 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1574 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1575
a799883d
PP
1576PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1577 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1578 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1579 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1580
3ecab157 1581PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1582
0599f9cf 1583
867fcbf5
PP
1584Exim version 4.77
1585-----------------
1586
1587PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1588 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1589
f1a29782
TF
1590TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1591
ab42bd23
TK
1592TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1593 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1594
0ca0cf52
TF
1595TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1596 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1597
921b12ca
TF
1598TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1599 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1600 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1601
1602 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1603 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1604 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1605 not safe for signals.
1606
1607 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1608 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1609 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1610 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1611 exiwhat.
1612
c99ce5c9
TF
1613TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1614
1615 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1616 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1617 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1618 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1619 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1620
1621 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1622 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1623 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1624 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1625 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1626 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1627
1628 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1629 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1630 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1631 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1632
1633 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1634 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1635 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1636 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1637
1638 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1639 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1640 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1641 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1642 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1643 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1644 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1645 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1646 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1647
1648 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1649 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1650 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1651 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1652
1653 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1654 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1655 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1656 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1657 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1658 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1659 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1660 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1661 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1662 details in the main documentation.
1663
3634fc25
TF
1664TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1665
792e8a19
TF
1666TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1667
5901f0ab
TF
1668TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1669 repository when doing development or release builds.
1670
7f2a2a43
PP
1671PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1672 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1673
061b7ebd
PP
1674PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1675 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1676 Bugzilla 97.
1677
e12f8c32
PP
1678PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1679
9e949f00 1680PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1681 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1682
1683PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1684 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1685
555ae6af 1686PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1687 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1688
1689PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1690 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1691
6f7fe114
PP
1692PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1693 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1694
c566dd90
PP
1695PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1696 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1697 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1698 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1699
d6cc7c78 1700PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1701 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1702 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1703
0d0e4455
PP
1704PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1705
3399bb60 1706PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1707
1708PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1709 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1710
0ca0cf52 1711
10906672
PP
1712Exim version 4.76
1713-----------------
1714
1715PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1716
754a0503
PP
1717PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1718 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1719
c0c7b2da
PP
1720PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1721
e97d1f08
PP
1722PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1723
084c1d8c
PP
1724PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1725 Bugzilla 1098.
1726
4e7ee012
PP
1727PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1728 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1729
c8d52a00
PP
1730TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1731 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1732
54e7ce4a
PP
1733PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1734 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1735
5ee6f336
PP
1736PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1737 Bugzilla 1104.
1738
c8d52a00 1739TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1740 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1741
1742TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1743 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1744 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1745 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1746
1747PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1748 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1749
10906672 1750
aa097c4c
NM
1751Exim version 4.75
1752-----------------
1753
4c04137d 1754NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1755 Bugzilla 1073
1756
7f3d9eff
TF
1757TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1758 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1759 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1760
159f52d2
TF
1761TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1762 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1763
0cc9542a
PP
1764PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1765 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1766 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1767
f7274286
PP
1768PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1769 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1770
7b797365
PP
1771PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1772 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1773
caacae52
NM
1774NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1775 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1776
09dcaba9
NM
1777NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1778 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1779
bc19a55b
PP
1780PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1781 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1782
bd4c9759
NM
1783NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1784 Fixes bug 943.
1785
b72aab72
PP
1786PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1787 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1788
2fe76745
PP
1789PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1790 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1791
76aa570c
PP
1792PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1793 SQL string expansion failure details.
1794 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1795
f1e5fef5
PP
1796PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1797 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1798
4d805ee9
PP
1799PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1800 extern declarations in function scope.
1801 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1802
cd59ab18
PP
1803PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1804 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1805 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1806 a kernel bug).
1807
332f5cf3
PP
1808PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1809 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1810
29cfeb94
PP
1811PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1812 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1813
660242ad
PP
1814PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1815 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1816
bc4bc4c5
PP
1817PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1818 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1819
2e64baa9
NM
1820NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1821 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1822 Dennis Davis.
1823
4c04137d 1824PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1825
6bac1a9a
PP
1826PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1827
552193f0
NM
1828NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1829 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1830
1b587e48
TF
1831TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1832 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1833
aa097c4c 1834
8c07b69f
TF
1835Exim version 4.74
1836-----------------
1837
1838TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1839 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1840
c0ea85ab
TF
1841TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1842 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1843
0761d44e
TF
1844TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1845
0a349494
PP
1846DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1847 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1848 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1849
1850PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1851 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1852 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1853
fea24b2e
PP
1854PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1855 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1856 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1857 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1858
6545de78
PP
1859PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1860 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1861 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1862 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1863
1670ef10
PP
1864PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1865 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1866 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1867 arbitrary files.
1868
c0886197
PP
1869PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1870 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1871
b7487bce
PP
1872PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1873 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1874 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1875 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1876 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1877
8c07b69f 1878
97fd1e48 1879Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1880-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1881
1882PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1883 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1884 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1885
6901c596
PP
1886PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1887 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1888
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1889JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1890
77bb000f
PP
1891PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1892
a29e5231
PP
1893PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1894
ec5a0394 1895PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1896
55c75993
PP
1897PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1898
453a6645 1899PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1900 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1901 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1902 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1903
8544e77a
PP
1904PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1905 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1906 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1907 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1908 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1909
83e029d5
PP
1910PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1911
ed7f7860
PP
1912PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1913
7d9f747b
PP
1914PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1915
4b2241d2
PP
1916PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1917
10385c15
PP
1918PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1919
dbc4b90d
PP
1920PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1921
532be449
PP
1922PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1923
6a8de854 1924PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1925 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1926 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1927
5dc43717
JJ
1928JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1929
1930JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1931 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1932
3346ab01
PP
1933PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1934 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1935
491fab4c
PP
1936PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1937 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1938 Notification from John Horne.
1939
13eb9497
PP
1940PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1941 compatible.
1942
1943PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1944 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1945 it normally works.
1946
7f36d675
DW
1947DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1948 access.
1949
c1d94452
DW
1950DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1951 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1952 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1953
e2f5dc15
DW
1954DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1955 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1956 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1957 configuration file.
1958
cd25e41d
DW
1959DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1960 option (effectively making it always true).
1961
261dc43e
DW
1962DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1963 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1964
fa32850b
DW
1965DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1966 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1967
79d4bc3d
PP
1968PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1969 run-time user, instead of root.
1970
43236f35 1971PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1972 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1973
fb08281f
DW
1974DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1975 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1976 arguments.
3346ab01 1977
74935b98
DW
1978DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1979 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1980 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1981
90b6341f
DW
1982DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1983
57730b52
ML
1984NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1985
66581d1e 1986
465e92cf
JJ
1987Exim version 4.72
1988-----------------
1989
453a6645
PP
1990JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1991 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1992 typos
465e92cf 1993
453a6645
PP
1994JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1995 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1996 (Finput)
edae0343 1997
9bd3e22c
NM
1998NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1999 Patch from Alain Williams
2000
bb576ff7
NM
2001NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2002
5a1a5845
NM
2003NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2004 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2005
981a9fad
NM
2006NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2007 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2008
7fc497ee
NM
2009NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2010
1a41defa
JJ
2011JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2012
a466095c 2013NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2014 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2015
94a6bd0b
NM
2016TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2017
2018TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2019
2020MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2021 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2022 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2023
c1b141a8
NM
2024NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2025 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2026
b26eacf1 2027NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2028 Patch by Simon Arlott
2029
179c5980 2030PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2031 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2032
9bd3e22c 2033
7c6d71af
NM
2034Exim version 4.71
2035-----------------
2036
7d9f747b 2037TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2038
f013fb92
NM
2039NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2040
0eb8eedd
NM
2041NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2042
663ee6d9
NM
2043NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2044
177ebd9b
NM
2045NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2046
7c6d71af 2047
210f147e
NM
2048Exim version 4.70
2049-----------------
2050
cdd3bb85 2051TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2052 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2053
2054TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2055 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2056 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2057
2058TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2059 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2060 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2061
2062TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2063 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2064
210f147e
NM
2065NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2066 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2067 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2068 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2069
deafd5b3
NM
2070NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2071 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2072 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2073
089793a4
TF
2074TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2075
5f16ca82
TF
2076TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2077
dae9d94e 2078NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2079 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2080
7d9f747b 2081NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2082
06864c44
TF
2083TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2084 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2085 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2086 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2087
65a7d8c3 2088NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2089 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2090
23510047 2091TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2092
7d9f747b 2093NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2094
7d8eec3a 2095NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2096 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2097
89dec7b6
TF
2098TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2099 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2100
a99de90c
TF
2101TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2102 that they are available at delivery time.
2103
e2803e40
TF
2104TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2105
7199e1ee
TF
2106TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2107 incoming_port log selectors.
2108
e276e04b
TF
2109TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2110 setting expands to an empty string.
2111
ce552449 2112NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2113 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2114
e765a0f1 2115NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2116 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2117
4f054c63 2118NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2119 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2120
7d9f747b
PP
2121NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2122 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2123
7d9f747b
PP
2124NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2125 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2126
b52bc06e 2127NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2128 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2129
447de4b0
NM
2130NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2131
4c69d561 2132NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2133 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2134
d5c39246 2135NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2136 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2137
0b23848a
TK
2138TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2139
8f3414a1 2140NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2141 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2142
fb6f955d
NM
2143NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2144
2145NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2146
7d9f747b
PP
2147NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2148 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2149
7d9f747b
PP
2150NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2151 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2152
7d9f747b
PP
2153NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2154 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2155
7d9f747b
PP
2156NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2157 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2158
7d9f747b
PP
2159NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2160 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2161
7d9f747b
PP
2162NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2163 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2164
7d9f747b
PP
2165NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2166 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2167
7d9f747b 2168NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2169 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2170
7d9f747b 2171NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2172
7d9f747b
PP
2173NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2174 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2175
7d9f747b 2176NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2177
7d9f747b 2178NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2179
7d9f747b 2180NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2181
7d9f747b 2182NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2183
17792b53 2184NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2185 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2186
7d9f747b
PP
2187NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2188 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2189
91576cec 2190NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2191 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2192
7d9f747b
PP
2193NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2194 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2195
7d9f747b 2196NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2197
7d9f747b 2198NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2199
7d9f747b 2200NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2201
7d9f747b 2202NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2203
deafd5b3 2204
47db1125
NM
2205Exim version 4.69
2206-----------------
2207
4b3504d0
TK
2208TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2209 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2210 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2211
2212 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2213 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2214 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2215 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2216 build errors in sieve.c.
2217
81ea09ca
NM
2218NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2219 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2220 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2221
f13cddcb
SC
2222SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2223
7d9f747b 2224NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2225
7d9f747b 2226NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2227
7d9f747b 2228NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2229
2230
eb4c0de6
PH
2231Exim version 4.68
2232-----------------
2233
2234PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2235
6a3bceb1
PH
2236PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2237 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2238 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2239 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2240 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2241 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2242 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2243 for iplsearch lookups.
2244
2245 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2246 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2247 previously such lookups could never work.
2248
4c04137d 2249 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2250 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2251 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2252
2e30fa9d
TK
2253TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2254 version.
2255
0806a9c5
MH
2256MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2257 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2258 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2259 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2260 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2261 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2262
ae276964
TK
2263TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2264 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2265
0f2cbd1b
MH
2266MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2267 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2268 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2269 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2270 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2271 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2272
2b85bce7
PH
2273PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2274 local_scan API.
2275
93655c46
PH
2276PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2277
6c512171
PH
2278PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2279 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2280 encrypted.
2281
2282PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2283 by clients under certain conditions.
2284
aa6dc513
PH
2285PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2286 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2287
a96603a0
PH
2288PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2289
8f240103
PH
2290PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2291 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2292
2293PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2294
d677b2f2
PH
2295PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2296
d52120f2
PH
2297PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2298
64f2600a
PH
2299PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2300 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2301
8669f003
PH
2302PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2303
a4dc33a8
PH
2304PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2305 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2306
d6a60c0f
PH
2307PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2308
8f128379
PH
2309PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2310
8932dffe
PH
2311PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2312 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2313 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2314 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2315
ddea74fa 2316PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2317 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2318 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2319
ddea74fa 2320PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2321 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2322
ddea74fa
PH
2323PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2324
ce9f225c
PH
2325PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2326
19897d52
PH
2327PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2328
bc64a74d
PH
2329PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2330 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2331 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2332
eb4c0de6 2333
b4ed4da0
PH
2334Exim version 4.67
2335-----------------
2336
22ad45c9
MH
2337MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2338 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2339 Jan Srzednicki.
2340
b4ed4da0
PH
2341PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2342 issue a MAIL command.
2343
431b7361
PH
2344PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2345
2346 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2347
2348 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2349 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2350 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2351 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2352 item. This has been fixed.
2353
2354PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2355 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2356
83da1223
PH
2357PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2358 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2359
54fc8428
PH
2360PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2361 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2362 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2363
34c5e8dd
SC
2364SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2365
bbe15da8
PH
2366PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2367 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2368 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2369 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2370 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2371
0e8a9471
MH
2372MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2373 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2374 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2375
f0872424
PH
2376PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2377 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2378 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2379 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2380
b01dd148
PH
2381PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2382
6bf342e1
PH
2383PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2384
273f34d0
PH
2385PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2386 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2387 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2388 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2389 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2390
cf8b11a5
PH
2391PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2392
41c7c167
PH
2393PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2394 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2395 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2396 values).
2397
9c57cbc0
PH
2398PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2399
f3f065bb
PH
2400PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2401
047bdd8c
PH
2402PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2403
0ce9abe6
PH
2404PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2405
0e22dfd1
PH
2406PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2407
4c590bd1
PH
2408PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2409 no_callout_flush is set.
2410
09945f1e
PH
2411PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2412 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2413 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2414 fixed.
2415
c51b8e75
PH
2416PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2417
e28326d8 2418PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2419 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2420 other ACL rejections are.
2421
75b1493f
PH
2422PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2423 with slight modification.
2424
7c5214ec
PH
2425PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2426 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2427
4311097e
PH
2428PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2429 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2430 connection.
2431
29f89cad
PH
2432PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2433 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2434
5e687460
SC
2435SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2436
c3611384
PH
2437PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2438 expansion side effects.
2439
5a11a7b4
PH
2440PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2441 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2442 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2443 be the same.
2444
0e20aff9
MH
2445MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2446 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2447 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2448
ca86f471
PH
2449PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2450 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2451 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2452 were accidentally chopped off.
2453
a14e5636
PH
2454PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2455 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2456 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2457 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2458 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2459 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2460 pipelining has not been advertised.
2461
ec95d1a6
PH
2462PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2463
42855d71
PH
2464PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2465 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2466 This has been fixed.
2467
57c2c631
PH
2468PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2469 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2470 reported on Solaris.
2471
58c01c94
PH
2472PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2473 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2474 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2475 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2476 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2477 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2478 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2479
dee5a20a
PH
2480PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2481 cpus.
2482
d2ee6114
PH
2483PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2484
b2d5182b
PH
2485PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2486
79749a79
PH
2487PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2488 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2489 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2490 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2491 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2492 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2493
c456d9bb
PH
2494PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2495 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2496 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2497 host_all_ignored option.
2498
cd9868ec
PH
2499PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2500 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2501 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2502 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2503 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2504 is what is supposed to happen).
2505
ebeaf996
PH
2506PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2507 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2508 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2509 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2510 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2511 uses the Exim user.
2512
2679d413
PH
2513PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2514 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2515 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2516 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2517 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2518 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2519 users.
2520
84024b72
PH
2521PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2522
8005d38e
SC
2523SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2524 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2525 (Jez Hancock).
2526 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2527 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2528
3298c6c6
SC
2529SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2530
a43a27c5
PH
2531PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2532
58eb016e 2533PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2534 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2535 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2536 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2537 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2538 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2539 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2540 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2541 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2542 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2543 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2544
b43a74ea
PH
2545PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2546 advertised in response to EHLO.
2547
b4ed4da0 2548
5dd1517f
PH
2549Exim version 4.66
2550-----------------
2551
2552PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2553 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2554
2555 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2556 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2557
2558 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2559 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2560 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2561
2562 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2563 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2564 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2565 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2566 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2567
2568
93cfa765
TK
2569Exim version 4.65
2570-----------------
2571
2572TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2573 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2574 versions. (#438)
2575
d6066548
MH
2576MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2577 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2578 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2579
4362ff0d
PH
2580PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2581 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2582 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2583 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2584 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2585 rather than extend the field.
2586
93cfa765 2587
944e9e9c
TF
2588Exim version 4.64
2589-----------------
aa41d2de 2590
21d74bd9
TK
2591TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2592 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2593 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2594 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2595 these files.
2596
2597TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2598 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2599 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2600
2601TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2602 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2603 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2604
2605TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2606 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2607 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2608 in the field name.
2609
2b1c6e3a
PH
2610PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2611 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2612 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2613 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2614 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2615 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2616 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2617 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2618 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2619 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2620 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2621
1f872c80
PH
2622PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2623 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2624
2625PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2626 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2627 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2628 ignores EPIPE as well.
2629
d203e649
PH
2630PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2631 (quoted-printable decoding).
2632
cc2ed8f7 2633PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2634 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2635
ddfcd446
PH
2636PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2637
d45b1de8
PH
2638PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2639
2640PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2641
38a0a95f 2642PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2643 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2644
a2405d83
JJ
2645JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2646 in 4.64-PH/09.
2647
2648JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2649 miscellaneous code fixes
2650
6ea85e9a
PH
2651PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2652 rejections.
2653
26da7e20
PH
2654PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2655 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2656 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2657 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2658 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2659 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2660 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2661 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2662
14aa5a05 2663PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2664 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2665 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2666 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2667 function.
2668 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2669 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2670 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2671 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2672 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2673 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2674 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2675 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2676 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2677
ff75a1f7
PH
2678PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2679 decoding.
2680
e6f6568e
PH
2681PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2682 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2683 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2684 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2685 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2686 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2687 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2688 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2689
d6f6e0dc
PH
2690PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2691 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2692 list.
2693
322050c2
PH
2694PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2695 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2696 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2697 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2698 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2699 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2700 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2701 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2702 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2703 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2704 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2705 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2706 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2707
08955dd3
PH
2708PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2709 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2710 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2711 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2712 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2713 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2714 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2715
1eccaa59
PH
2716PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2717 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2718 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2719 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2720 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2721 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2722 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2723 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2724 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2725 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2726
602e59e5
PH
2727PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2728 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2729 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2730 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2731 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2732
411ef850
PH
2733PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2734 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2735 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2736 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2737 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2738 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2739 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2740
7befa435
PH
2741PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2742 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2743 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2744 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2745 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2746 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2747 been verified.
2748
48da4259 2749PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2750 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2751 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2752 and authorization.)
2753
48da4259
PH
2754PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2755 if any retry times were supplied.
2756
d1d5595c
PH
2757PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2758 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2759 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2760
0ef732d9
PH
2761PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2762
328895cc
PH
2763PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2764
fd700877
PH
2765PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2766 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2767 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2768 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2769 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2770 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2771
8dce1a6f
PH
2772PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2773 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2774
17af4a17
PH
2775PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2776 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2777 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2778
2779PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2780 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2781 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2782 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2783 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2784 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2785 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2786 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2787 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2788
2789 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2790 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2791 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2792 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2793 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2794 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2795 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2796 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2797 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2798
2799 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2800 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2801 hammering the server.
2802
c1114884
PH
2803PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2804 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2805
7a0743eb
PH
2806PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2807
0d85fa3f
PH
2808PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2809 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2810 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2811
1bf43b78
PH
2812PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2813 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2814 one case where this was not true.
2815
520de300
PH
2816PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2817 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2818 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2819 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2820 fails.
2821
48c7f9e2
PH
2822PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2823 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2824 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2825 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2826 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2827 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2828 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2829 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2830 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2831 smtp transport.
2832
99ea1c86
PH
2833PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2834 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2835 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2836 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2837
a2042e78
PH
2838PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2839 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2840
4fbcfc2e
PH
2841PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2842 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2843 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2844
aa41d2de
PH
2845PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2846
af561417
PH
2847PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2848
3cc66b45
PH
2849PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2850
194cc0e4
PH
2851PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2852 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2853 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2854 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2855
a401ddaa
PH
2856PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2857 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2858
4e88a19f
PH
2859PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2860 be meaningful with "accept".
2861
d7d7b289
SC
2862SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2863 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2864
2865SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2866 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2867 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2868
2869SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2870 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2871 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2872 there is data to show.
2873 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2874
2875SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2876 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2877 as well as the number of messages.
2878
2879SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2880 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2881 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2882
2883SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2884 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2885 have a flag are now skipped.
2886
2887SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2888 Added the -emptyok flag.
2889
2890SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2891 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2892
0ea2a468
JJ
2893JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2894 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2895 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2896
2897JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2898 match 4.64-PH/13
2899
2900JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2901 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2902
2903JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2904
2905JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2906 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2907
8a10f5a4
PH
2908PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2909
30e18802
PH
2910PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2911 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2912 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2913 contravention of the specifications.
2914
55728a4f
PH
2915PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2916 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2917 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2918
d7837193
PH
2919PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2920 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2921 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2922
87054a31
PH
2923PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2924
ea2c01d2
MH
2925MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2926 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2927 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2928 some point in the past.
2929
e4fa6968
PH
2930PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2931 transport during callout processing was broken.
2932
56f5d9bd
PH
2933PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2934 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2935
922e1c28
PH
2936PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2937 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2938
21eb6e72
PH
2939PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2940 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2941
a0540757
PH
2942PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2943
944e9e9c 2944
478be7b0
SC
2945Exim version 4.63
2946-----------------
2947
2948SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2949 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2950
2951SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2952 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2953 there is data to show.
2954 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2955
2956SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2957 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2958
2b965a65
TF
2959TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2960 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2961
45b91596
PH
2962TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2963 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2964
c59f5781
TF
2965TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2966 submissions from trusted users.
2967
90fc3069
TF
2968TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2969 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2970
6083aca0
TF
2971TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2972 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2973 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2974 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2975 there is now a framework to start from.
2976
765b530f
PH
2977PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2978 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2979 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2980
4e167a8c
PH
2981PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2982
4608d683
PH
2983PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2984
b8dc3e4a
PH
2985PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2986
5418e93b
PH
2987PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2988 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2989 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2990
b4a9bda2
PH
2991PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2992 libradius.
2993
45b91596
PH
2994PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2995 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2996 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2997
5547e2c5
PH
2998PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2999 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3000 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3001 its arguments.
3002
dbcef0ea
PH
3003PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3004 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3005 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3006 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3007 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3008
25257489
PH
3009PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3010 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3011
c816d124
PH
3012PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3013
a9ccd69a
PH
3014PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3015 operations in malware.c.
3016
75fa1910
PH
3017PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3018 signatures.
3019
a7d7aa58
PH
3020PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3021 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3022 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3023 all.
3024
42119b09
PH
3025PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3026 statements to "add_header".
3027
41609df5
PH
3028PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3029 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3030
a5bd321b
PH
3031PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3032 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3033 latter.
3034
e85a7ad5 3035PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3036 so that it is now:
3037
e85a7ad5
PH
3038 ${if or { \
3039 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3040 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3041 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3042 }{no}{yes}}
3043
e85a7ad5
PH
3044 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3045 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3046
d8fe1c03
PH
3047PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3048 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3049
16282d2b
PH
3050PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3051 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3052 any possible encoding problems.
3053
35d40a98
PH
3054PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3055 but not after initializing Perl.
3056
034d99ab
PH
3057PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3058 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3059 apparently, which is not desirable.
3060
6ec97b1b
PH
3061PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3062 queries.
3063
e22ca4ac
JJ
3064JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3065 --not options
3066
3067JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3068
33d73e3b
PH
3069PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3070 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3071 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3072 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3073
9ecb03f3
PH
3074PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3075 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3076 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3077
084efe8d
PH
3078PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3079 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3080 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3081 0.12.
3082
366fc9f0
PH
3083PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3084 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3085 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3086 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3087 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3088
c59f5781 3089
c887c79e
TF
3090Exim version 4.62
3091-----------------
3092
3093TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3094 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3095
1cce3af8
PH
3096PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3097 patch).
3098
afb3eaaf
PH
3099PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3100 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3101 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3102 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3103 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3104 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3105 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3106 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3107 451 error is used.
3108
e173618b
PH
3109PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3110
dd16e114
PH
3111PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3112 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3113 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3114
f7fd3850
PH
3115PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3116 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3117 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3118 odd errors.
3119
d87df92c
PH
3120PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3121 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3122
7e9f683d
PH
3123PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3124 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3125 option (which defaults to 0600).
3126
bfad5236
PH
3127PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3128
01c490df
PH
3129PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3130 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3131 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3132 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3133 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3134 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3135 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3136
d6629cdc
PH
3137PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3138
1cce3af8 3139
214e2000
PH
3140Exim version 4.61
3141-----------------
3142
3143PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3144 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3145 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3146 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3147 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3148 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3149 addresses as local.
3150
f9daeae0
PH
3151PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3152 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3153
7e66e54d
PH
3154PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3155
c8ea1597
PH
3156PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3157 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3158 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3159 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3160 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3161 grumble.
3162
911f6fde
PH
3163PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3164 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3165
47ca6d6c
PH
3166PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3167 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3168 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3169 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3170 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3171
ed0e9820
PH
3172PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3173 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3174 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3175 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3176
eff37e47
PH
3177PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3178 be the same on different OS.
3179
1921d2ea
PH
3180PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3181 testing.
3182
b3f69ca8
JJ
3183JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3184 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3185
3186JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3187 in 4.61-PH/06
3188
424a1c63
PH
3189PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3190 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3191 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3192 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3193 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3194 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3195 bounce message.
3196
7a100415
PH
3197PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3198 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3199 when Exim was called.
3200
19b9dc85
PH
3201PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3202 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3203
309bd837
PH
3204PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3205 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3206 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3207 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3208
59e82a2a
PH
3209PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3210 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3211 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3212 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3213 changes:
3214
3215 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3216 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3217 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3218
3219 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3220 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3221 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3222
9edc04ce
PH
3223PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3224 feature).
3225
1349e1e5
PH
3226PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3227 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3228 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3229 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3230 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3231 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3232 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3233 values from the SRV records were lost.
3234
ea49d0e1
PH
3235PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3236 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3237 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3238
064a94c9
PH
3239PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3240 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3241 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3242
727071f8
PH
3243PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3244 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3245 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3246 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3247 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3248 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3249 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3250 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3251 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3252 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3253
f78eb7c6
PH
3254PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3255 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3256 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3257
21c28500
PH
3258PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3259 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3260
3261PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3262 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3263 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3264 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3265 is given.
3266
1688f43b
PH
3267PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3268 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3269 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3270
3271PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3272 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3273 PH/23 above applies.
3274
9675b384
PH
3275PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3276 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3277 (for which there is an explicit test).
3278
6a3f1455
PH
3279PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3280
dac79d3e
PH
3281PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3282 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3283 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3284 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3285 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3286
5977a0b3
PH
3287PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3288 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3289 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3290 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3291
c91535f3
PH
3292PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3293 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3294 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3295
0d46a8c8
PH
3296PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3297
278c6e6c
PH
3298PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3299
2cbb4081
PH
3300PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3301 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3302 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3303
3eef829e
PH
3304PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3305 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3306 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3307 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3308 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3309
1ab95fa6
PH
3310PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3311 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3312 the message gets confusing).
3313
230205fc
PH
3314PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3315 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3316 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3317 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3318
75e0e026
PH
3319PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3320 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3321 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3322 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3323 same order.
3324
3325PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3326 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3327 the different processes.
3328
145396a6
PH
3329PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3330
3cd34f13
PH
3331PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3332
11121d3d
JJ
3333JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3334 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3335
3336JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3337 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3338
3339JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3340 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3341 messages matching specified criteria.
3342
8def5aaf
PH
3343PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3344
929ba01c
PH
3345PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3346 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3347
2632889e
PH
3348PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3349 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3350 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3351 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3352 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3353 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3354 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3355 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3356 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3357 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3358
944a9c55
PH
3359PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3360 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3361 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3362
4a23603b
PH
3363PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3364
4730f942
PH
3365PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3366 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3367 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3368 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3369 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3370 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3371 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3372 the variable.
3373
30dba1e6
PH
3374PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3375 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3376
382afc6b
PH
3377PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3378
a86229cf
PH
3379PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3380
50c99ba6
PH
3381PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3382
d35e429d
PH
3383PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3384 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3385 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3386 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3387 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3388 size of the count of files.
3389
f90d018c
PH
3390PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3391
75def545
PH
3392PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3393 used in LMTP mode:
3394
3395 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3396 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3397 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3398 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3399
3400 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3401 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3402 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3403
3404PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3405 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3406 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3407 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3408 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3409
c46782ef
PH
3410PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3411 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3412
71fafd95
PH
3413PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3414 will now be deprecated.
3415
2c5db4fd
PH
3416PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3417
9cf6b11a
JJ
3418JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3419 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3420 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3421
3422JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3423 with very large, slow to parse queues
3424
3425JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3426
3427JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3428
898d150f
PH
3429PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3430 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3431 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3432 SMTP output lines.
3433
46218253
PH
3434PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3435 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3436 Sieve code now uses this.
3437
e97957bc
PH
3438PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3439 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3440
81e509d7
PH
3441PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3442 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3443
3d240ff7
PH
3444PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3445
b37c4101
PH
3446PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3447 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3448 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3449 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3450 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3451
79378e0f
PH
3452PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3453 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3454 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3455 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3456
e49c7bb4
PH
3457PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3458
d114ec46
PH
3459PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3460
f3d7df6c
PH
3461PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3462 is preferred over IPv4.
3463
715ab376
PH
3464PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3465 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3466 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3467 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3468 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3469 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3470 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3471
6b31b150
PH
3472PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3473 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3474 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3475
3476PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3477
d515a917
PH
3478PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3479 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3480 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3481 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3482 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3483 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3484 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3485 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3486 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3487 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3488 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3489
9b8fadde
PH
3490PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3491 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3492 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3493
214e2000 3494
5de37277
PH
3495Exim version 4.60
3496-----------------
3497
cc38ddbf
PH
3498PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3499
3500 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3501 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3502
3503 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3504 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3505 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3506
72fdd6ae
PH
3507PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3508
3509 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3510 not a single digit.
3511
3512 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3513 string.
3514
3515 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3516 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3517 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3518 silly things.
3519
3520 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3521 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3522
3523 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3524 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3525
cb741023
PH
3526PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3527 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3528 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3529
f174f16e
PH
3530PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3531 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3532
c25242d7
PH
3533PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3534 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3535
3536 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3537
3538 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3539 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3540 this:
3541
3542 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3543
82c19f95
PH
3544PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3545 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3546 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3547 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3548 identical. For example:
3549
3550 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3551
3552 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3553 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3554 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3555
d7ffbc12
PH
3556PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3557 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3558 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3559 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3560
9f526266
PH
3561PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3562 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3563 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3564 message.
3565
87fcc8b9
PH
3566PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3567
3568 o fixes some comments
3569 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3570 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3571 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3572 and documents the missing references header update
3573
3574 and most important:
3575
3576 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3577 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3578 result)
3579
456682f5
PH
3580PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3581 Electronic Mail") by including:
3582
3583 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3584
3585 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3586 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3587 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3588 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3589 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3590
3591 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3592
3593 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3594
3595 The auto-replied keyword:
3596
3597 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3598 message by an automatic process,
3599
3600 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3601
3602 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3603 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3604
3605 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3606 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3607 other messages.
3608
3e46c1aa
PH
3609PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3610 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3611
49826d12
PH
3612PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3613
eba0c039
PH
3614PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3615 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3616 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3617
a0d6ba8a
PH
3618PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3619 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3620 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3621
f0917727
PH
3622PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3623 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3624 and treats the condition as false.
3625
096fee00
PH
3626PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3627
024bd3c2
PH
3628PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3629 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3630 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3631 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3632 not changing the active code.
3633
3634 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3635 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3636
3637 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3638 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3639
df199fec
PH
3640PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3641 (Bugzilla #53).
3642
d27f1df3
PH
3643PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3644 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3645 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3646 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3647 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3648 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3649 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3650 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3651 the text comparison.
3652
96776534
PH
3653PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3654 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3655 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3656 The same fix has been applied.
3657
5de37277 3658
9a799bc0
PH
3659Exim version 4.54
3660-----------------
3661
3662PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3663 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3664 It now does.
3665
99a4b039
PH
3666PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3667 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3668
3669PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3670
4b233853
PH
3671PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3672 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3673 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3674 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3675 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3676
8857ccfd
PH
3677TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3678 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3679 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3680 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3681 or /domain=).
3682
433a2980
PH
3683PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3684 testing suite.
3685
3e46c1aa 3686
9a799bc0 3687
e3a311ba
TK
3688Exim version 4.53
3689-----------------
3690
3691TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3692 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3693
13b685f9
PH
3694PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3695
395ff96d
PH
3696PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3697
5b68f6e4
PH
3698PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3699 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3700 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3701
1ab52c69
PH
3702PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3703 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3704 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3705
b07e6aa3
PH
3706PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3707 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3708 operating systems.
3709
254e032f
PH
3710PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3711 ${stat: expansion item.
3712
3af76a81
PH
3713PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3714 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3715
2548ba04
PH
3716PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3717 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3718 file for comments.
3719
b6c6011d
PH
3720PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3721
cf39cf57
PH
3722PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3723 setting.
3724
f1513293
PH
3725PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3726 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3727
727549a4
PH
3728TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3729
af46795e
PH
3730PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3731 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3732 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3733 the end of the subprocess.
3734
d7b47fd0
PH
3735PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3736 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3737 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3738 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3739 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3740
ee744174
JJ
3741JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3742
b582ab87
PH
3743TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3744
41a13e0a
PH
3745PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3746 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3747
f625cc5a
PH
3748PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3749
3750PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3751
21f7af35
PH
3752PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3753 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3754 HP-UX compiler.
3755
31480e42
PH
3756PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3757
2d280592
PH
3758PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3759 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3760 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3761
7cd1141b
PH
3762PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3763 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3764
3765PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3766 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3767
750af86e
PH
3768PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3769 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3770
3771 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3772 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3773
3774 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3775 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3776 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3777 contributed by a Radius user.
3778
3779PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3780 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3781
4304270b
TK
3782TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3783 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3784
750af86e
PH
3785PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3786 available.
3787
64ffc24f
PH
3788PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3789 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3790 received.
3791
5dd9625b
PH
3792PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3793 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3794 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3795 header lines when this was not necessary.
3796
5591031b
PH
3797PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3798
ba18e66a
PH
3799PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3800 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3801 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3802 exists".
3803
9cec981f
PH
3804PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3805 -bV or -d is used.
3806
aa2b5c79
PH
3807PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3808 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3809 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3810 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3811
48a53b7f
PH
3812PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3813
1c59d63b
PH
3814PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3815
671012da
TK
3816TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3817
1509d3a8
PH
3818PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3819
3820PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3821 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3822 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3823 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3824 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3825 settings.
3826
3827PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3828
2fe1a124
PH
3829PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3830 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3831 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3832 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3833 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3834 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3835 which is clearly wrong.
3836
8800895a
PH
3837PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3838
ccfdb010
PH
3839PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3840 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3841 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3842 subsequently added.
3843
1130bfb0
PH
3844PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3845 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3846
ebcb507f
PH
3847PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3848
c35e155c
PH
3849PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3850 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3851
95d1f782
PH
3852PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3853 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3854
fd6de02e
PH
3855PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3856 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3857
58de37c5
PH
3858PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3859 recipients, not senders.
3860
261cf466
TF
3861TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3862 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3863
3ee512ff
PH
3864PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3865
e08c430f
PH
3866PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3867
bef5a11f
PH
3868PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3869 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3870 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3871 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3872
7546de58
TF
3873TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3874
e5d5a95f
TF
3875TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3876 clock is set back in time.
3877
2e88a017
TF
3878TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3879 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3880
a5f65aa4
TF
3881TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3882 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3883
e7726cbf
PH
3884PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3885 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3886 (see PH/47 above).
3887
a7fdad5b
TF
3888TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3889 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3890 header rewrites.
3891
6af56900
PH
3892PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3893 type ("H").
3894
0925ede6
PH
3895PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3896
66afa403
TF
3897TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3898 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3899 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3900
0154e85a
TF
3901TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3902 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3903 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3904 helo verification defer as a failure.
3905
16f12c76
PH
3906PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3907 actual error message.
3908
bbe902f0 3909
e5a9dba6
PH
3910Exim version 4.52
3911-----------------
3912
3913TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3914
22c3b60b
PH
3915PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3916 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3917 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3918 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3919
06a9b4b5
PH
3920TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3921
c1ac6996
PH
3922PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3923 can still be requested.
3924
9c7a242c
PH
3925PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3926 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3927 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3928 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3929
87ba3f5f
PH
3930TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3931 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3932 circumstances, but probably never did.
3933
3934PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3935 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3936 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3937 in the header line.
3938
29aba418
TF
3939TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3940
fe0dab11
TF
3941TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3942 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3943
11d337a4
TK
3944TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3945
3946TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3947
415c8f3b
PH
3948PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3949 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3950 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3951 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3952 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3953 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3954
958541e9
PH
3955PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3956 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3957 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3958 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3959 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3960 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3961
c206415f
TK
3962TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3963 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3964
2a4be8f9
PH
3965PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3966 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3967
1cba11c5
SC
3968SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3969 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3970
4c04137d 3971SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3972
3973SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3974
3975SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3976
3977SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3978
3979SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3980
3981SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3982
1005d00e
TK
3983TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3984
3985TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3986 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3987 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3988
3989TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3990 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3991 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3992 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3993
9b4768fa
PH
3994PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3995 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3996 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3997
3998PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3999 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4000 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4001 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4002
0d7eb84a
PH
4003PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4004 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4005 to be made).
4006
4007PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4008 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4009 should work with maildirs and everything.
4010
40727bee
TK
4011TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4012 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4013
554d2369
TF
4014TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4015 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4016
1f922db1
PH
4017PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4018 function for BDB 4.3.
4019
ef213c3b
PH
4020PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4021
8ac170f3
PH
4022PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4023 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4024 involved.
4025
b1c749bb
PH
4026PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4027 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4028 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4029 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4030 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4031 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4032
4aac9b49
PH
4033PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4034 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4035 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4036 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4037 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4038 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4039 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4040 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4041
294520c8
TK
4042TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4043 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4044 details.
4045
5bd022fe
PH
4046PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4047 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4048
90e9ce59
PH
4049PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4050 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4051 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4052 test. It is now used for both.
4053
5ea81592
PH
4054PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4055 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4056 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4057 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4058 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4059 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4060
c6c2dc1d
PH
4061PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4062 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4063 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4064 string_vformat().
4065
fffffe4c
PH
4066PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4067 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4068 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4069
9a26b6b2
PH
4070PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4071 experimental DomainKeys support:
4072
4073 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4074 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4075 the control was given.
4076
4077 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4078
4aee0225
PH
4079PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4080
32d668a5
PH
4081PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4082
8187c3f3
PH
4083PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4084 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4085 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4086 db.h files).
4087
ff790e47 4088PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4089 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4090 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4091 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4092 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4093 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4094 course.
ff790e47 4095
5417f6d1
PH
4096PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4097 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4098 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4099 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4100 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4101 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4102
59cf8544
PH
4103PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4104 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4105 do -d+all out of habit.
4106
e7ad8a65
PH
4107PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4108 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4109 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4110
ade42478
PH
4111PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4112 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4113 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4114 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4115 record types that Exim uses.
4116
182ad5cf
PH
4117PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4118 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4119 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4120 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4121 non-existent file that was broken.
4122
b0d9fc80
TK
4123TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4124 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4125
4126TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4127 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4128 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4129
4130TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4131
47c7a64a
PH
4132PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4133 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4134 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4135 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4136 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4137 same time.
4138
a388bce4
SC
4139SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4140 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4141 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4142 at a slight CPU cost.
4143
4144SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4145 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4146
4147SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4148 by Marc Sherman.
4149
0793e4ed
SC
4150SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4151
c58b88df
PH
4152PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4153 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4154
e7ad8a65 4155
7982096b
PH
4156Exim version 4.51
4157-----------------
4158
1a46a8c5
PH
4159TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4160 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4161
2f079f46 4162TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4163
4164TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4165
4166PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4167 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4168
4169PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4170 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4171 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4172 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4173 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4174 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4175 file.
4176
4177PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4178 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4179 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4180 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4181 these two options.
4182
4183PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4184 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4185 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4186 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4187 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4188 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4189 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4190 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4191
4192PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4193 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4194
4195PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4196 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4197 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4198 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4199 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4200 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4201
4202PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4203 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4204 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4205 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4206
4207PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4208 Finch).
4209
4210PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4211 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4212
49c2d5ea
PH
4213PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4214 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4215 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4216 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4217 message.
49c2d5ea 4218
bf759a8b
PH
4219PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4220
83364d30
PH
4221PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4222 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4223
7999bbd7
PH
4224PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4225 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4226 to what was transported.)
4227
7dbf77c9
PH
4228TF/01 Added $received_time.
4229
74e0617f
PH
4230PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4231 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4232 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4233 spamd_address settings.
4234
2f079f46
PH
4235PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4236 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4237 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4238 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4239 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4240
8c841523
PH
4241PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4242
7766a4f0
PH
4243PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4244 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4245 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4246 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4247 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4248
8b417f2c
PH
4249PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4250 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4251
901f42cb
PH
4252PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4253 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4254 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4255 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4256 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4257 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4258 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4259 for failure.
4260
f9b9210e
PH
4261PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4262 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4263 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4264 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4265 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4266 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4267 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4268 "input=".
4269
54cdb463
PH
4270PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4271
cf00dad6
PH
4272PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4273 driver and ACL definitions.
4274
acb1b346
PH
4275PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4276 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4277
c5ddb310
PH
4278PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4279 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4280 understands it better than I do:
4281
4282 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4283 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4284
4285 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4286 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4287 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4288 => three warnings about OTP not working
4289 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4290
4291 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4292 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4293 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4294 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4295 for each call.)
4296 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4297 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4298
4299 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4300 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4301 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4302
31619da6
PH
4303PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4304 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4305 specified.
4306
bebaf0fc
PH
4307PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4308 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4309 "Linux".
4310
475fe28a
PH
4311PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4312 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4313 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4314
4315 warn !verify = sender
4316 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4317
4318 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4319 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4320
7e8bec7a
PH
4321PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4322
4323 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4324 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4325
4326 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4327 nomenclature these days.)
4328
e4a89c47
PH
4329PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4330 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4331
5ca2a9a1
PH
4332PH/30 In these circumstances:
4333 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4334 . First host does not offer TLS;
4335 . First host accepts first address;
4336 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4337 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4338 . Second host accepts second address.
4339 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4340 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4341 address.
7e8bec7a 4342
c688b954
PH
4343PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4344 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4345 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4346 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4347 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4348
fed77020
PH
4349PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4350 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4351
7fe1560f
PH
4352PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4353 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4354
ebb6e6d5
PH
4355PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4356 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4357 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4358
9c4e8f60
PH
4359PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4360 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4361 overlooked.
4362
4363PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4364
d7174846
PH
4365PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4366 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4367 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4368 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4369 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4370 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4371 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4372
4373 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4374 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4375 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4376 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4377 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4378
4379 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4380 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4381 routed further.
4382
cfe75fc3
PH
4383PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4384 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4385 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4386 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4387 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4388 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4389
be22d70e
PH
4390PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4391
0612b098
PH
4392PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4393 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4394 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4395 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4396 printable escape sequences.
4397
2e0c1448
PH
4398PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4399 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4400 body only.
4401
447d236c
PH
4402PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4403 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4404 are as follows:
4405
4406 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4407 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4408 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4409 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4410 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4411
4412 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4413 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4414 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4415
d20976dc
PH
4416PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4417
f656d135
PH
4418PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4419 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4420 play with."
4421
2e2a30b4
PH
4422PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4423 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4424 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4425 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4426 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4427 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4428 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4429 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4430 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4431 the log output.
4432
9176e9f0
PH
4433PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4434 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4435 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4436 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4437 "make".
4438
7982096b 4439
bbe902f0
PH
4440A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4441----------------------------------------
4442
4443Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4444changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4445needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4446in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4447that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4448release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4449from 4.43.
4450
4451I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
44524.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4453those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4454historical information.
4455
4456
f7b63901 4457Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4458-----------------
4459
5fe762f6
PH
4460 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4461
139059f6 4462 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4463 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4464
7086e875
PH
4465 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4466 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4467 place.
4468
35af9f61
PH
4469 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4470 filter fails to execute.
4471
b668c215
PH
4472 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4473 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4474 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4475 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4476 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4477
a494b1e1
PH
4478 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4479
4480 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4481 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4482 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4483 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4484
c5fcb476
PH
4485 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4486 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4487 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4488 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4489 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4490
69358f02
PH
4491 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4492
5be20824
PH
449310. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4494
eb2c0248
PH
449511. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4496 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4497 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4498 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4499
2a3eea10
PH
450012. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4501 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4502 sender verification.
4503
450413. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4505 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4506
23c7ff99
PH
450714. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4508
4deaf07d
PH
450915. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4510 connection timeout.
4511
926e1192
PH
451216. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4513 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4514
650edc6f
PH
451517. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4516 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4517
2c7db3f5
PH
451818. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4519 information about exactly what failed.
4520
3d235903
PH
452119. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4522
7c7ad977
PH
452320. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4524 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4525 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4526
981756db
PH
452721. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4528 It is now set to "smtps".
4529
d4eb88df
PH
453022. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4531 ignore_target_hosts.
4532
453323. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4534 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4535 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4536 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4537 "[x.x.x.x]".
4538
7d468ab8
PH
453924. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4540 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4541 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4542
454325. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4544 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4545 wake it up if nothing else does.
4546
62c0818f
PH
454726. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4548 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4549 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4550 end up negative.
4551
26034054
PH
455227. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4553 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4554
af66f652
PH
455528. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4556
90af77f4
PH
455729. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4558 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4559 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4560 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4561 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4562 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4563 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4564 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4565
d8ef3577
PH
456630. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4567 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4568 than one IP address.
4569
5cb8cbc6
PH
457031. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4571 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4572 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4573 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4574
14702f5b
PH
457532. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4576 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4577 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4578 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4579 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4580 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4581
063b1e99
PH
458233. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4583 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4584 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4585 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4586
652e1b65
PH
458734. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4588 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4589 respected.
4590
6f0c9a4f
PH
459135. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4592 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4593 $sender_host_address.
4594
33397d19
PH
459536. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4596 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4597 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4598 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4599 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4600 very small.
4601
7bb56e1f
PH
460237. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4603
4604 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4605 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4606
ea3bc19b
PH
4607 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4608 just the host names, not the priorities.
4609
4610 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4611 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4612 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4613
ea3bc19b 4614 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4615 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4616
0bcb2a0e
PH
461738. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4618 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4619 domain.
4620
2ac0e484
PH
462139. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4622
4e1fde53
PH
462340. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4624 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4625
de365ded
PH
462641. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4627 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4628 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4629
f05da2e8
PH
463042. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4631
d6453af2
PH
463243. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4633
f7b63901
PH
463444. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4635
463645. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4637 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4638 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4639 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4640 because the tests only now provoked it.
4641
a444213a
PH
464246. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4643 (this can affect the format of dates).
4644
0ec020ea
PH
464547. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4646 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4647 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4648 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4649
b1206957
PH
465048. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4651
465249. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4653 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4654 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4655 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4656
26dd5a95
PH
465750. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4658 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4659 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4660
343b2385
PH
466151. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4662 autoreply.
4663
1c5466b9
PH
466452. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4665 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4666 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4667 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4668 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4669 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4670 is going on).
4671
55ee9ee3
PH
467253. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4673 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4674 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4675 the line.
4676
d38f8232
PH
467754. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4678 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4679 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4680
4681 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4682 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4683 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4684 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4685 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4686 so I produce this patch..."
4687
3295e65b
PH
4688 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4689 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4690 is not defined.
4691
7102e136
PH
469255. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4693 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4694 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4695 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4696 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4697
3ca0ba97
PH
469856. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4699
c2bcbe20
PH
470057. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4701 long debug lines gets shown.
4702
18ce445d
PH
470358. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4704 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4705
1f5b4c3d
PH
470659. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4707
4708 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4709 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4710 of $primary_hostname.
4711
b975ba52
PH
471260. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4713 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4714 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4715 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4716 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4717 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4718 by change 4.50/55 above.
4719
4720 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4721 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4722 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4723 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4724 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4725 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4726 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4727
472861. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4729 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4730 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4731 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4732
17ffcae7
PH
473362. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4734 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4735
d95f9fdb
PH
473663. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4737 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4738 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4739 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4740 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4741
86b8287f
PH
474264. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4743 This has been fixed.
4744
60dc5e56
PH
474565. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4746 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4747 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4748 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4749 the caching.)
4750
533244af
PH
475166. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4752
a5a28604
PH
475367. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4754 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4755 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4756 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4757
7e634d24
PH
475868. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4759 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4760
3e11c26b
PH
476169. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4762 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4763 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4764
6729cf78
PH
476570. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4766 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4767 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4768 message there.
4769
00f00ca5
PH
477071. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4771 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4772 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4773
c9bdd01c
PH
477472. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4775 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4776 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4777 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4778
d43194df
PH
477973. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4780 during host lookups.
4781
fe5b5d0b
PH
478274. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4783 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4784
4785 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4786
76a2d7ba
PH
478775. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4788 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4789 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4790 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4791 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4792 background.
4793
479476. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4795 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4796
04f7d5b9
PH
479777. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4798 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4799 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4800
bc60667e
PH
480178. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4802
bb6e88ff
PH
480379. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4804 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4805 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4806 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4807 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4808 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4809 process earlier.
4810
1e70f85b
PH
481180. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4812 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4813 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4814 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4815 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4816
481781. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4818 tables).
4819
4e01f9d6
PH
482082. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4821
1ee1cef2
PH
482283. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4823 "vacation" handling.
4824
6e2b4ccc
PH
482584. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4826 OS variants using glibc.
4827
8e669ac1
PH
482885. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4829
495ae4b0 4830
bbe902f0
PH
4831----------------------------------------------------
4832See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4833----------------------------------------------------
4834
4835
4836Exim version 4.44
4837-----------------
4838
4839 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4840 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4841 transport
4842
4843 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4844 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4845 place.
4846
4847 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4848 filter fails to execute.
4849
4850 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4851 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4852 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4853 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4854 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4855
4856 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4857 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4858 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4859 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4860
4861 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4862 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4863 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4864 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4865 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4866
4867 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4868
4869 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4870 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4871 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4872 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4873
4874 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4875 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4876 sender verification.
4877
487810. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4879 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4880
488111. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4882 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4883
488412. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4885 ignore_target_hosts.
4886
488713. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4888 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4889 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4890 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4891 "[x.x.x.x]".
4892
489314. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4894 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4895 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4896
489715. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4898 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4899 wake it up if nothing else does.
4900
490116. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4902 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4903 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4904 end up negative.
4905
490617. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4907 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4908
ea3a6f44 490918. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4910
491119. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4912 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4913 empty pattern.
4914
491520. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4916 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4917 one IP address.
4918
ea3a6f44
NM
491921. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4920 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4921 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4922 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4923 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4924 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4925
ea3a6f44
NM
492622. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4927 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4928 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4929
493023. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4931 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4932 $sender_host_address.
4933
493424. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4935
ea3a6f44
NM
493625. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4937 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4938 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4939
494026. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4941 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4942
ea3a6f44
NM
494327. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4944 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4945
ea3a6f44
NM
494628. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4947 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4948 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4949 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4950
495129. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4952 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4953 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4954
ea3a6f44
NM
495530. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4956 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4957 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4958 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4959
ea3a6f44
NM
496031. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4961 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4962 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4963
ea3a6f44
NM
496431. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4965 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4966
ea3a6f44
NM
496732. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4968 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4969 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4970 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4971 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4972 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4973 is going on).
bbe902f0 4974
ea3a6f44
NM
497533. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4976 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4977 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4978 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4979 CAN-2005-0021
4980
ea3a6f44
NM
498134. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4982 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4983 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4984 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4985 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4986 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4987 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4988
4989 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4990 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4991 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4992 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4993 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4994 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4995 CAN-2005-0021
4996
ea3a6f44
NM
499735. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4998 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4999 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5000 CAN-2005-0022
5001
ea3a6f44
NM
500236. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5003 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5004 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5005 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5006 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5007
ea3a6f44
NM
500837. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5009 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5010 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5011 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5012 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5013
ea3a6f44
NM
501438. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5015 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5016 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5017 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5018 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5019
5020
495ae4b0
PH
5021Exim version 4.43
5022-----------------
5023
5024 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5025 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5026 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5027 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5028 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5029 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5030 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5031
5032 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5033 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5034 the delivery.
5035
5036 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5037
5038 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5039
5040 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5041 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5042 to local_scan().
5043
5044 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5045 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5046 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5047 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5048 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5049
5050 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5051 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5052
5053 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5054
5055 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5056
505710. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5058 header_sender only.
5059
506011. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5061 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5062
506312. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5064 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5065 affecting debugging statements).
5066
506713. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5068
506914. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5070 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5071 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5072 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5073 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5074 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5075 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5076 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5077 after the received time, and all would be well.
5078
507915. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5080 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5081 condition in an expansion string.
5082
508316. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5084
508517. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5086 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5087 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5088 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5089 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5090 job under whatever limits there are.
5091
509218. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5093
509419. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5095 space).
5096
509720. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5098 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5099 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5100 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5101 return path is set.
5102
510321. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5104 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5105 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5106 binary data in such strings.
5107
510822. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5109
511023. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5111 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5112 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5113 failure, which is pointless.
5114
511524. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5116
511725. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5118
511926. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5120 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5121 Sender: header lines.
5122
512327. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5124 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5125 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5126
512728. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5128 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5129 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5130 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5131 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5132 happens.
5133
513429. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5135 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5136 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5137 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5138 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5139
514030. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5141 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5142 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5143 1024.
5144
514531. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5146 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5147
514832. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5149 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5150
515133. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5152
515332. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5154
515533. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5156
515734. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5158 syntax error.
5159
516035. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5161
516236. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5163
516437. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5165 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5166 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5167 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5168
516938. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5170 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5171
5172
5173Exim version 4.42
5174-----------------
5175
5176 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5177 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5178 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5179 it was not quoted.
5180 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5181 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5182 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5183 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5184 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5185 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5186
5187 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5188 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5189 verification failure".
5190
5191 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5192 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5193 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5194 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5195
5196 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5197 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5198 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5199 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5200 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5201 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5202 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5203 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5204 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5205 treated as a timeout.
5206
5207 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5208 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5209 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5210 not set for Exim filters).
5211
5212 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5213 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5214 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5215
5216 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5217
5218 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5219 try to make them clearer.
5220
5221 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5222 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5223
5224 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5225
5226 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5227
522810. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5229 only the Cygwin environment.
5230
523111. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5232 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5233 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5234 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5235 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5236
523712. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5238 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5239 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5240 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5241 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5242 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5243 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5244
524513. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5246 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5247
524814. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5249
5250 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5251 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5252 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5253
5254 To: susanne@some.where
5255
5256 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5257 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5258 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5259 of addresses in From: header lines).
5260
5261 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5262 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5263 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5264
5265 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5266 treated as non-personal.
5267
5268 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5269 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5270
527115. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5272
527316. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5274
527517. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5276 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5277 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5278
527918. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5280 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5281
528219. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5283 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5284 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5285 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5286 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5287 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5288
528920. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5290 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5291 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5292 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5293 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5294 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5295 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5296 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5297
5298 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5299
530021. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5301 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5302
530322. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5304 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5305 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5306
530723. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5308 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5309
531024. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5311 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5312 rather than long int.
5313
531425. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5315
531626. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5317
5318
5319Exim version 4.41
5320-----------------
5321
5322 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5323 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5324 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5325 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5326 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5327 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5328
5329
5330Exim version 4.40
5331-----------------
5332
5333 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5334 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5335
5336 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5337 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5338 socklen_t is defined.
5339
5340 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5341 always exist.
5342
5343 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5344 configured.
5345
5346 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5347 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5348 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5349 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5350 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5351
5352 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5353 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5354 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5355 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5356
5357 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5358 of flapping under certain conditions.
5359
5360 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5361 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5362 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5363
5364 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5365
536610. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5367
536811. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5369 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5370 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5371 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5372
537312. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5374 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5375 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5376 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5377 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5378 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5379 preserved with the message after it was received.
5380
538113. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5382 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5383 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5384 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5385 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5386 test suite worked just fine.
5387
538814. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5389 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5390 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5391
539215. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5393 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5394 string.
5395
539616. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5397 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5398 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5399 does not fully solve it.
5400
540117. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5402 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5403 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5404 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5405 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5406
540718. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5408 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5409 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5410
541119. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5412 string, for example:
5413
5414 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5415
5416 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5417 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5418 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5419 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5420 the routers could not see them.
5421
542220. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5423 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5424
542521. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5426 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5427 output).
5428
542922. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5430 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5431 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5432 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5433 that needed quoting.
5434
543523. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5436 was not being matched caselessly.
5437
543824. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5439 backslashes.
5440
544125. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5442 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5443 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5444 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5445 when use_sender is false.
5446
544726. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5448
544927. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5450
545128. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5452
545329. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5454 the configuration file.
5455
545630. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5457 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5458
545931. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5460
546132. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5462 bytes in the message body.
5463
546433. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5465 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5466 delivery.
5467
546834. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5469
547035. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5471
547236. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5473 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5474 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5475 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5476 another IP address.
5477
5478
5479Exim version 4.34
5480-----------------
5481
5482 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5483 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5484
5485 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5486 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5487 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5488 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5489 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5490
5491 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5492 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5493
5494 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5495 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5496 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5497
5498 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5499 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5500 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5501
5502 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5503 for routers.
5504
5505 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5506 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5507 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5508 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5509 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5510 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5511 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5512
5513
5514Exim version 4.33
5515-----------------
5516
5517 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5518 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5519 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5520 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5521 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5522 default (and expected) setting.
5523
5524 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5525 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5526 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5527 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5528
5529 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5530 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5531
5532 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5533 in domain lists.
5534
5535 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5536 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5537 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5538 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5539 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5540 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5541
5542 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5543 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5544 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5545
5546 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5547 part (NOT match_host).
5548
5549 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5550
5551 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5552 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5553 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5554 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5555 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5556 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5557 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5558 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5559 the same named file.
5560
556110. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5562 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5563 when Exim is built.
5564
556511. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5566 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5567 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5568 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5569 a host name.
5570
557112. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5572 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5573 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5574
557513. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5576
557714. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5578
557915. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5580
558116. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5582 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5583
558417. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5585 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5586 before starting the TLS session.
5587
558818. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5589
559019. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5591 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5592
559320. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5594 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5595 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5596 colon in the middle).
5597
5598
5599Exim version 4.32
5600-----------------
5601
5602 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5603 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5604 multiple configurations are in use.
5605
5606 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5607 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5608 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5609 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5610 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5611 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5612
5613 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5614 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5615
5616 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5617 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5618 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5619
5620 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5621 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5622 occurs.
5623
5624 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5625 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5626
5627 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5628
5629 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5630 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5631
5632 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5633
5634 -prval:sval
5635
5636 is equivalent to
5637
5638 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5639
5640 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5641 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5642 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5643 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5644 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5645
564610. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5647 Exim's behaviour:
5648
5649 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5650 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5651 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5652 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5653 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5654 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5655
5656 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5657 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5658 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5659 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5660 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5661 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5662 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5663 string.
5664
5665 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5666 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5667 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5668 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5669 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5670
567111. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5672
567312. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5674 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5675 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5676
567713. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5678
567914. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5680 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5681 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5682 information.
5683
568415. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5685 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5686
568716. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5688 Three changes have been made:
5689
5690 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5691 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5692 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5693 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5694 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5695
5696 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5697 been restored.
5698
5699 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5700 the modified behaviour.
5701
5702
5703Exim version 4.31
5704-----------------
5705
5706 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5707 Larry Rosenman.
5708
5709 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5710 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5711
5712 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5713 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5714 try to track down a specific problem.
5715
5716 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5717 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5718 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5719
5720 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5721 warning.
5722
5723 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5724 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5725 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5726 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5727 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5728 some earlier ones do not.
5729
5730 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5731
5732 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5733 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5734 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5735 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5736 address literals are enabled, of course).
5737
5738 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5739
574010. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5741 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5742 by a command such as
5743
5744 exim -f "" ...
5745
5746 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5747
574811. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5749
575012. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5751 remained set. It is now erased.
5752
575313. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5754 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5755
575614. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5757 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5758 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5759 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5760 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5761 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5762 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5763 appropriate error code.
5764
576515. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5766 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5767 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5768 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5769 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5770 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5771
577216. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5773 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5774 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5775
577617. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5777 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5778 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5779 terminate the header.
5780
578118. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5782 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5783 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5784
578519. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5786 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5787 (4.30/29). In particular:
5788
5789 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5790 imposed.
5791
5792 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5793 to write a maildirsize file.
5794
5795 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5796 the transport, the new value overrides.
5797
5798 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5799 count.
5800
580120. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5802 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5803 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5804 space or a tab.
5805
580621. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5807 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5808 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5809 the fallback hosts.
5810
581122. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5812 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5813 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5814
581523. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5816 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5817 using a union.
5818
581924. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5820 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5821 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5822
582325. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5824
582526. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5826
582727. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5828
582928. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5830 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5831 become corrupted.
5832
583329. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5834 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5835 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5836 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5837 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5838 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5839 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5840 too great.
5841
584230. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5843 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5844 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5845 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5846 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5847 incorrectly.
5848
584931. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5850 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5851 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5852 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5853 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5854 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5855 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5856 cached value only when the same options are set.
5857
585832. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5859
586033. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5861 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5862 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5863 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5864 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5865
586634: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5867 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5868 it is clearly obsolete.
5869
587035. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5871 transport.
5872
587336. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5874 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5875 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5876 times.
5877
587837. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5879 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5880 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5881 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5882 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5883
588438. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5885 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5886 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5887 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5888
588939. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5890
5891 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5892
5893 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5894 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5895 2^31.
5896
589740. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5898 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5899 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5900 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5901 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5902 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5903 $localpart_data.
5904
590541. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5906 with the -f command-line option.
5907
590842. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5909 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5910 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5911 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5912 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5913 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5914
591543. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5916 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5917 line.
5918
591944. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5920 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5921 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5922 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5923 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5924 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5925 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5926 buffer is too small.
5927
592845. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5929 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5930
593146. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5932 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5933 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5934 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5935 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5936 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5937 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5938 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5939 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5940
594147. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5942 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5943 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5944
594548. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5946 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5947 ACL").
5948
594949. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5950 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5951 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5952 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5953 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5954
595550. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5956 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5957 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5958 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5959 is set.
5960
596151. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5962
596352. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5964
596553. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5966 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5967
596854. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5969 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5970 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5971
597255. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5973 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5974 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5975 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5976 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5977
597856. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5979 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5980 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5981 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5982 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5983 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5984 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5985
598657. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5987 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5988 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5989 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5990 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5991 the test of how many are available.
5992
599358. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5994 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5995 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5996 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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5997 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5998 new message is started.
5999
600059. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6001 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6002
600360. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6004 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6005
600661. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6007 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6008 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6009 is no long logged.
6010
601162. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6012 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6013 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6014 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6015 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6016 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6017 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6018
601963. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6020 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6021 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6022 interpreted as octal.
6023
602464. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6025 setting.
6026
602765. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6028 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6029 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6030 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6031 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6032 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6033
603466. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6035 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6036 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6037 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6038
6039 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6040 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6041 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6042 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6043
6044 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6045 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6046 is a bug fix.
6047
6048 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6049 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6050
605167. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6052
605368. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6054 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6055 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6056 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6057
605869. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6059 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6060 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6061 supplied", which is not helpful.
6062
606370. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6064 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6065 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6066
606771. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6068 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6069 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6070 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6071 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6072 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6073 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6074 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6075
607672. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6077 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6078 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6079 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6080 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6081
608273. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6083 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6084 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6085 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6086 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6087 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6088
608974. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6090 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6091 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6092
609375. Added write_rejectlog option.
6094
609576. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6096 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6097 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6098 variables.
6099
610077. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6101
610278. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6103 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6104 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6105 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6106 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6107 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6108 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6109 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6110
611179. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6112 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6113 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6114 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6115 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6116
611780. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6118 Haardt.
6119
612081. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6121 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6122 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6123 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6124 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6125 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6126 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6127 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6128 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6129
6130
6131Exim version 4.30
6132-----------------
6133
6134 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6135 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6136 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6137
6138 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6139 fixed.
6140
6141 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6142 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6143 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6144
6145 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6146 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6147 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6148 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6149 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6150 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6151
6152 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6153 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6154 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6155 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6156 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6157 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6158 the Exim test suite.
6159
6160 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6161 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6162 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6163 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6164
6165 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6166 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6167 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6168 specify it in this variable.
6169
6170 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6171 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6172 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6173 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6174
6175 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6176 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6177 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6178 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6179
6180 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6181 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6182 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6183 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6184 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6185
6186 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6187
618810. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6189 they are logged.
6190
619111. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6192 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6193 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6194 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6195 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6196
619712. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6198 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6199
620013. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6201 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6202 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6203 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6204 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6205
620614. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6207 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6208
620915. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6210 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6211 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6212
621316. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6214 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6215
621617. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6217 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6218
621918. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6220 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6221 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6222
622319. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6224 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6225
622620. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6227 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6228 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6229 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6230
623121. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6232
623322. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6234 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6235 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6236 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6237
623823. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6239
624024. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6241 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6242
624325. Added .include_if_exists.
6244
624526. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6246 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6247 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6248 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6249 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6250 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6251
625227. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6253
625428. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6255 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6256 this.
6257
625829. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6259
626030. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6261 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6262
6263 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6264 550 Sender verify failed
6265
6266 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6267 the final line of the response.
6268
626931. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6270 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6271 all other user lookups.
6272
627332. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6274 delivery time.
6275
627633. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6277 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6278 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6279 result into an int without checking.
6280
628134. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6282 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6283 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6284
628535. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6286 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6287 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6288 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6289
629036. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6291 correctly.
6292
629337. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6294 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6295
629638. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6297 to the empty sender.
6298
629939. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6300 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6301 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6302 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6303 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6304 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6305 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6306 panic log.
6307
630840. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6309 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6310 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6311 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6312 used.
6313
631441. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6315 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6316
631742. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6318 timestamps.
6319
632043. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6321 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6322
632344. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6324
632545. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6326 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6327 logs.
6328
632946. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6330 as soon as it is encountered.
6331
633247. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6333
633448. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6335 rewritten to "<>".
6336
633749. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6338 recognizes a tab character.
6339
634050. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6341 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6342 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6343 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6344
634551. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6346
634752. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6348 crash.
6349
635053. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6351
635254. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6353
635455. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6355 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6356 2822.
6357
635856. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6359 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6360 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6361 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6362 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6363
636457. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6365 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6366
636758. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6368 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6369 list (.included file names were always shown).
6370
637159. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6372 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6373 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6374 root at that time.
6375
637660. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6377 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6378
637961. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6380
638162. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6382
638363. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6384
638564. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6386 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6387 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6388 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6389 failures to open the logs.
6390
639165. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6392 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6393 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6394 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6395 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6396 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6397 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6398
6399
6400Exim version 4.24
6401-----------------
6402
6403 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6404 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6405 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6406 change 4.23/1.
6407
6408 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6409 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6410 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6411
6412 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6413 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6414 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6415
6416 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6417 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6418 causing some misleading effects.
6419
6420 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6421 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6422 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6423
6424 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6425 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6426 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6427 queue-runner function directly.
6428
6429
6430Exim version 4.23
6431-----------------
6432
6433 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6434 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6435
6436 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6437 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6438 was always written to the default place.
6439
6440 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6441 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6442 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6443
6444 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6445
6446 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6447
6448 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6449 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6450 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6451
6452 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6453 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6454 must start.
6455
6456 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6457 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6458 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6459
6460 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6461 command line option is disabled.
6462
6463 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6464 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6465
6466 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6467
6468 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6469
6470 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6471 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6472
647310. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6474
647511. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6476 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6477 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6478 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6479 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6480 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6481
648212. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6483 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6484 timeout.
6485
648613. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6487 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6488
648914. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6490 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6491
649215. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6493 received was valid base64.
6494
649516. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6496 name of the variable that was being set.
6497
649817. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6499
650018. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6501 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6502 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6503 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6504 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6505 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6506
650719. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6508
650920. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6510 nor realm was specified.
6511
651221. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6513 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6514 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6515 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6516
651722. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6518 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6519 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6520
652123. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6522 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6523 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6524
652524. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6526 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6527 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6528 some systems use these upper case variants.
6529
653025. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6531 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6532 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6533 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6534
653526. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6536
653727. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6538 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6539
654028. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6541 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6542 expansion variable.
6543
654429. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6545
654630. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6547 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6548 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6549 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6550
655131. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6552 using it.
6553
655432. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6555 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6556 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6557
655833. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6559 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6560
656134. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6562 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6563 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6564 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6565
656635. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6567 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6568 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6569
657036. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6571
657237. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6573 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6574 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6575 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6576 aborted.
6577
657838. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6579 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6580 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6581
658239. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6583
658440. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6585 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6586
658741. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6588 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6589
659042. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6591 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6592 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6593 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6594 when emails are that large.
6595
6596
6597
6598Exim version 4.22
6599-----------------
6600
6601 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6602 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6603
6604 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6605 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6606 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6607
6608 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6609 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6610 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6611
6612 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6613 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6614 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6615 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6616 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6617
6618 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6619 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6620 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6621 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6622 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6623 ever.
6624
6625 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6626 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6627 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6628 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6629 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6630 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6631 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6632 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6633 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6634 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6635 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6636 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6637 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6638 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6639
6640 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6641 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6642 parameterised it.
6643
6644 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6645 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6646 error should be diagnosed.
6647
6648 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6649 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6650 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6651 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6652 appeared instead of "NULL".
6653
665410. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6655 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6656 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6657 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6658 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6659 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6660 proceeds).
6661
6662 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6663 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6664 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6665
6666
6667Exim version 4.21
6668-----------------
6669
6670 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6671 or receiver verification errors.
6672
6673 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6674 name.
6675
6676 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6677 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6678 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6679 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6680
6681 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6682 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6683 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6684 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6685 shouldn't happen again.
6686
6687 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6688 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6689 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6690
6691 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6692 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6693
6694 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6695
6696 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6697 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6698
6699 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6700 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6701 RFC.
6702
670310. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6704 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6705 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6706
670711. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6708 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6709 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6710 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6711
671212. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6713 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6714 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6715 to define what should happen).
6716
671713. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6718 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6719 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6720
672114. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6722
672315. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6724
672516. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6726 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6727
4c04137d 672817. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6729 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6730 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6731 structure in all cases.
6732
6733 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6734 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6735 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6736 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6737
673818. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6739 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6740 domain name.
6741
674219. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6743 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6744
674520. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6746 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6747
674821. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6749 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6750 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6751
675222. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6753 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6754 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6755
675623. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6757 the book and for uniformity.
6758
675924. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6760
676125. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6762 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6763 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6764 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6765 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6766 non-existent command as the problem.
6767
676826. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6769 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6770 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6771
677227. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6773
677428. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6775 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6776 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6777
677829. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6779 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6780 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6781 timestamps using strftime().
6782
678330. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6784 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6785
678632. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6787 transport-time rewrites.
6788
678933. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6790 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6791 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6792 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6793
679434. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6795 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6796
679735. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6798 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6799 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6800 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6801 comma and a space.
6802
680336. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6804 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6805 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6806 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6807 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6808 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6809 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6810
681137. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6812 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6813 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6814 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6815 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6816
681738. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6818 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6819 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6820 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6821 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6822 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6823 remaining text gets split now.
6824
682539. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6826 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6827 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6828 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6829
683040. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6831 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6832 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6833 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6834 $return_path.
6835
683641. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6837 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6838 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6839 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6840 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6841 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6842 passed through if needed.
6843
684442. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6845 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6846 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6847 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6848 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6849 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6850
685143. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6852 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6853 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6854 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6855 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6856
685744. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6858 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6859 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6860 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6861 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6862
686345. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6864 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6865 noticed.
6866
686746. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6868 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6869 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6870 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6871 mayhem of various kinds.
6872
687347. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6874 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6875 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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6876 the right test for positive values.
6877
687848. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6879 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6880 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6881 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6882 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6883 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6884 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6885 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6886 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6887 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6888 envelope.
6889
689049. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6891 module.
6892
689350. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6894 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6895 forbidding it.
6896
689751. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6898 the existing equality matching.
6899
690052. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6901 dealing with inode numbers.
6902
690353. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6904 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6905 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6906
690754. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6908 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6909 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6910 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6911 local_scan().
6912
691355. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6914 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6915 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6916 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6917 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6918 relay addresses has also been removed.
6919
692056. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6921
692257. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6923 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6924 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6925
692658. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6927 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6928 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6929 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6930 processing applies to CR:
6931
6932 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6933 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6934
6935 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6936 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6937 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6938 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6939
694059. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6941 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6942 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6943
694460. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6945 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6946 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6947 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6948 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6949 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6950 arisen.
6951
695261. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6953 program routers.
6954
695562. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6956 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6957 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6958 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6959 adds:
6960
6961 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6962
6963 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6964
6965 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6966
696763. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6968 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6969 not considered personal.
6970
697164. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6972
697365. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6974
697566. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6976
697767. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6978 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6979 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6980 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6981 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6982 header lines, and spool format errors.
6983
698468. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6985 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6986 for more flexibility.
6987
698869. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6989 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6990 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6991
699270. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6993 Sabourenkov.
6994
699571. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6996 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6997 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6998 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6999 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7000 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7001 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7002 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7003 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7004
700572. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7006 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7007 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7008 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7009 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7010 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7011 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7012
701373. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7014 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7015 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7016
701774. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7018 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7019 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7020 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7021 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7022 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7023 instead of killing the process with assert().
7024
702575. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7026 than Unicode encoding.
7027
702876. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7029 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7030 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7031 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7032
703377. Added process_log_path.
7034
703578. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7036 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7037
703879. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7039 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7040
704180. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7042 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7043 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7044
704581. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7046 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7047 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7048 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7049 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7050 were applied:
7051
7052 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7053 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7054 as invalid.
7055
705682. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7057 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7058 they will be used during message reception.
7059
7060
7061Exim version 4.20
7062-----------------
7063
7064The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7065
7066****