Clarify error message for host-connect fail. Bug 1505
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
8 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
9 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
10 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
11 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
12 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
13 the script parsing/test process like normal.
14
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15TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
16 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
17 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
18 function when detected.
19
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20JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
21 cause callback expansion.
22
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23TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
24 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
25 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
26 instead of bool when processing it.
27
0f06b4f2 28JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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29 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
30
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31JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
32
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33JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
34
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35TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
36
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37TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
38 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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42TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
43 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
44 return.
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46JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
47 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
48
49JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
50
51TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 52 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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57
58TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
59
60 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
61 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
62 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
63 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
64 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
65 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
66
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67TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
68 utilities have not been installed.
69
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70JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
71 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
72
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73TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
74 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
75
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76TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
77 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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78 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
79 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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81JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
82
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83TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
84 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
85
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86PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
87 not dns_use_dnssec.
88
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89JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
90
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91TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
92 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
93 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
94
8ddef691 95TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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96 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
97 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
98 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
99 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 100 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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102JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
103
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104JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
105 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
106
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107JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
108 failed delivery.
109
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110JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
111
511a6c14 112JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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114JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
115 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 116
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117JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
118 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
119
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120TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
121
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122JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
123
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124JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
125 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
126
127 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
128 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
129 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
130
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131TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
132 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
133 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
134 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 135
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136JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
137
8c51eead 138JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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139 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
140 lookup).
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142TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
143 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
144 Schlichting.
35aba663 145
fd3b6a4a 146JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 147 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 148
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149TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
150 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
151
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152JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
153
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154TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
155 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
156 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
157
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158JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
159 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
160
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161JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
162 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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163 hosts_request_ocsp.
164
ed3bba5f 165JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 166 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 167 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 168
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169JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
170
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171TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
172 Christian Aistleitner.
173
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174JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
175
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176TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
177 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
178
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179JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
180 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
181
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182JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
183 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
184
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185TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
186 support and error reporting did not work properly.
187
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188TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
189 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
190
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191TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
192 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
193 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
194
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195JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
196
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197PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
198 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
199 Jasper Wallace.
200
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201JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
202
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203TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
204 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
205 CVE-2014-2972
206
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2c422e6f 208Exim version 4.82
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210
211PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
212
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213PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
214 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
215
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216PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
217 by GnuTLS.
218
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219PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
220 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
221 routines.
222
13363eba 223PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 224
66645890 225PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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226 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
227 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
228 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
229 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 230
a3fb9793 231PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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232 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
233 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
234 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 235 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 236 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 237
d27f98fe 238TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 239
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240TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
241
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242TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
243 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
244
ae0e32ee 245TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 246 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 247 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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249TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 250
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251TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
252
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253TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
254 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
255
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256JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
257
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258JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
259
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260PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
261
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262NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
263 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 264
585121e2 265JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 266
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267PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
268 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
269 function.
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271PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
272 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
273
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274JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
275 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
276 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 277
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278JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
279
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280JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
281
ea722490 282JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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283 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
284
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285JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
286 Bugzilla 884.
287
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288JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
289 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
290
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291JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
292 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
293
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294PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
295 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 296 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 297
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298JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
299 authenticators.
300
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301JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
302 for control.
303
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304PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
305
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306PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
307 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
308 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
309 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
310
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311TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
312
313 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
314 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
315 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
316 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
317 the retry rules.
318
319 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
320 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
321 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
322
323 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
324 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
325 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
326 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
327
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328 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
329 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
330 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
331 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
332 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
333 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
334 delivery, as in LMTP.
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336 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
337 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
338
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339TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
340
341 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
342
343 Resent-From: f
344
345 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
346 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
347 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
348 username as equal to the username.
349
350 This change corrects that bug.
351
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352GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
353 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
354 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
355
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356TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
357
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358PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
359 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
360 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
361 NULL dereference and crash.
362
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363JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
364
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365PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
366 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
367 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
368
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369SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
370
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371JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
372 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
373 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
374 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
375 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
376 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
377 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
378 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
379 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
380 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
381 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
382
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383PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
384 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
385
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386PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
387 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
388 Bugzilla 880.
389
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390PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
391 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
392 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
393 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
394 an empty string is now equivalent.
395
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396PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
397 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
398 not performing validation itself.
399
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400PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
401 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
402
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403JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
404 Bugzilla 321, 823.
405
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406TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
407
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408PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
409 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
410 other false fix of the same issue.
411 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
412 Bugzilla 1363.
413
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414PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
415 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
416
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417PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
418 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
419 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
420
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421PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
422 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
423 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
424
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425TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
426
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427JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
428
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429TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
430 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
431
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432TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
433 Alexander Miroch.
434
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435TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
436 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
437 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
438 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
439 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 440
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441TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
442 the src/util/ subdirectory.
443
581d7bee 444TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 445 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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446 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
447
448TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
449 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
450 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
451 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
452
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453TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
454
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455TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
456 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
457 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 458
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459TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
460
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461TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
462 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
463 interaction.
464
465TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
466 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
467
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468TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
469 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
470
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474
475PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
476 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 477 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 478
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482
483PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
484 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
485 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
486
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487NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
488
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489NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
490 improved.
491
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492NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
493
c1e794ba 494PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 495
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496PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
497
498PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
499 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
500
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501PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
502 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
503
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504PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
505 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
506
f1e05cc7 507PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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508 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
509 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 510
4c287009
PP
511PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
512
b98bb9ac
PP
513PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
514 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
515
4a6a987a
PP
516PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
517
c45dd180 518PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 519
7db8d074
PP
520PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
521 non-compliant senders.
522 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
523
eae0036b 524NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
525 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
526 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
527
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528PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
529 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
530 in spool file corruption.
531
c80c5570
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532PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
533 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
534 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
535 "Got SSL error 2".
536
076b11e2
PP
537TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
538 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
539 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
540
5407bfff
JH
541JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
542 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
543
9e45c72b
PP
544JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
545
e74376d8
PP
546PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
547 diagnostics.
548 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
549
da3ad30d
PP
550PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
551 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
552 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
553
7be682ca
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554PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
555 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
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556 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
557 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 558
ef840681
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559PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
560 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
561
5bfb4cdf
PP
562PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
563 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
564 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
565 resolver implementation change.
566
c6e95d22
PP
567PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
568 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
569
9cbad13b
PP
570PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
571
9ee44efb
PP
572PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
573
6a6084f8
PP
574PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
575 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
576
12dd53c7
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577PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
578 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
579
9e45c72b 580JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
581 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
582
17c76198
PP
583PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
584 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
585 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
586 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 587 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 588
53947857 589PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 590
eae0036b 591PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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PP
592 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
593 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 594
9e45c72b 595JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 596
7390e768
PP
597PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
598 read-only, out of scope).
599 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
600
08488c86
PP
601PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
602 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
603 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
604 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
605
6475bd82
PP
606PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
607
81f91683
PP
608PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
609 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
610 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
611 real issues in debug logging.
612
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PP
613PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
614 assignment on my part. Fixed.
615
3375e053
PP
616PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
617 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
618 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
619
620PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
621 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
622 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
623 problems.
3375e053 624
9d26b8c0
PP
625PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
626 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
627
57eb9e91 628PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
629 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
630 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
631 needs to override this, it can.
632
16880d1a
PP
633PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
634 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
635 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
636
a799883d
PP
637PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
638 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
639 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
640 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
641
3ecab157 642PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 643
0599f9cf 644
867fcbf5
PP
645Exim version 4.77
646-----------------
647
648PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
649 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
650
f1a29782
TF
651TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
652
ab42bd23
TK
653TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
654 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 655
0ca0cf52
TF
656TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
657 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
658
921b12ca
TF
659TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
660 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
661 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
662
663 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
664 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
665 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
666 not safe for signals.
667
668 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
669 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
670 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
671 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
672 exiwhat.
673
c99ce5c9
TF
674TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
675
676 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
677 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
678 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
679 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
680 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
681
682 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
683 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
684 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
685 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
686 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
687 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
688
689 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
690 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
691 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
692 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
693
694 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
695 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
696 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
697 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
698
699 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
700 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
701 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
702 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
703 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
704 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
705 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
706 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
707 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
708
709 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
710 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
711 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
712 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
713
714 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
715 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
716 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
717 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
718 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
719 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
720 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
721 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
722 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
723 details in the main documentation.
724
3634fc25
TF
725TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
726
792e8a19
TF
727TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
728
5901f0ab
TF
729TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
730 repository when doing development or release builds.
731
7f2a2a43
PP
732PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
733 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 734
061b7ebd
PP
735PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
736 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
737 Bugzilla 97.
738
e12f8c32
PP
739PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
740
9e949f00 741PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
742 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
743
744PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
745 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 746
555ae6af 747PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
748 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
749
750PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
751 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 752
6f7fe114
PP
753PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
754 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
755
c566dd90
PP
756PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
757 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
758 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
759 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 760
d6cc7c78 761PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
762 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
763 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
764
0d0e4455
PP
765PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
766
3399bb60 767PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
768
769PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
770 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
771
0ca0cf52 772
10906672
PP
773Exim version 4.76
774-----------------
775
776PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
777
754a0503
PP
778PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
779 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
780
c0c7b2da
PP
781PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
782
e97d1f08
PP
783PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
784
084c1d8c
PP
785PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
786 Bugzilla 1098.
787
4e7ee012
PP
788PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
789 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 790
c8d52a00
PP
791TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
792 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
793
54e7ce4a
PP
794PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
795 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
796
5ee6f336
PP
797PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
798 Bugzilla 1104.
799
c8d52a00 800TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
801 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
802
803TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
804 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
805 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
806 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
807
808PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
809 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 810
10906672 811
aa097c4c
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812Exim version 4.75
813-----------------
814
4c9ef03a 815NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
816 Bugzilla 1073
817
7f3d9eff
TF
818TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
819 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
820 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
821
159f52d2
TF
822TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
823 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
824
0cc9542a
PP
825PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
826 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
827 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
828
f7274286
PP
829PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
830 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
831
7b797365
PP
832PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
833 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
834
caacae52
NM
835NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
836 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
837
09dcaba9
NM
838NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
839 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
840
bc19a55b
PP
841PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
842 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 843
bd4c9759
NM
844NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
845 Fixes bug 943.
846
b72aab72
PP
847PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
848 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
849
2fe76745
PP
850PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
851 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
852
76aa570c
PP
853PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
854 SQL string expansion failure details.
855 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
856
f1e5fef5
PP
857PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
858 Patch from Simon Arlott.
859
4d805ee9
PP
860PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
861 extern declarations in function scope.
862 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
863
cd59ab18
PP
864PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
865 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
866 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
867 a kernel bug).
868
332f5cf3
PP
869PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
870 Patch from Mark Zealey.
871
29cfeb94
PP
872PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
873 Patch from Mark Zealey.
874
660242ad
PP
875PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
876 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
877
bc4bc4c5
PP
878PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
879 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
880
2e64baa9
NM
881NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
882 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
883 Dennis Davis.
884
bddd7526
PP
885PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
886
6bac1a9a
PP
887PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
888
552193f0
NM
889NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
890 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 891
1b587e48
TF
892TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
893 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
894
aa097c4c 895
8c07b69f
TF
896Exim version 4.74
897-----------------
898
899TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
900 consequences so log it to the panic log.
901
c0ea85ab
TF
902TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
903 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
904
0761d44e
TF
905TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
906
0a349494
PP
907DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
908 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
909 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
910
911PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
912 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
913 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
914
fea24b2e
PP
915PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
916 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
917 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
918 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
919
6545de78
PP
920PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
921 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
922 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
923 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
924
1670ef10
PP
925PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
926 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
927 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
928 arbitrary files.
929
c0886197
PP
930PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
931 (Wolfgang Breyha)
932
b7487bce
PP
933PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
934 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
935 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
936 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
937 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
938
8c07b69f 939
97fd1e48 940Exim version 4.73
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97fd1e48
PP
942
943PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
944 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
945 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
946
6901c596
PP
947PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
948 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
949
a8c8d6b5
JJ
950JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
951
77bb000f
PP
952PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
953
a29e5231
PP
954PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
955
ec5a0394 956PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 957
55c75993
PP
958PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
959
453a6645 960PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
961 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
962 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
963 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
964
8544e77a
PP
965PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
966 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
967 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
968 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
969 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 970
83e029d5
PP
971PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
972
ed7f7860
PP
973PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
974
7d9f747b
PP
975PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
976
4b2241d2
PP
977PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
978
10385c15
PP
979PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
980
dbc4b90d
PP
981PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
982
532be449
PP
983PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
984
6a8de854 985PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
986 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
987 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 988
5dc43717
JJ
989JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
990
991JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
992 "exim" to be used
55c75993 993
3346ab01
PP
994PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
995 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
996
491fab4c
PP
997PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
998 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
999 Notification from John Horne.
1000
13eb9497
PP
1001PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1002 compatible.
1003
1004PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1005 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1006 it normally works.
1007
7f36d675
DW
1008DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1009 access.
1010
c1d94452
DW
1011DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1012 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1013 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1014
e2f5dc15
DW
1015DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1016 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1017 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1018 configuration file.
1019
cd25e41d
DW
1020DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1021 option (effectively making it always true).
1022
261dc43e
DW
1023DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1024 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1025
fa32850b
DW
1026DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1027 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1028
79d4bc3d
PP
1029PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1030 run-time user, instead of root.
1031
43236f35 1032PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1033 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1034
fb08281f
DW
1035DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1036 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1037 arguments.
3346ab01 1038
74935b98
DW
1039DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1040 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1041 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1042
90b6341f
DW
1043DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1044
57730b52
ML
1045NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1046
66581d1e 1047
465e92cf
JJ
1048Exim version 4.72
1049-----------------
1050
453a6645
PP
1051JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1052 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1053 typos
465e92cf 1054
453a6645
PP
1055JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1056 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1057 (Finput)
edae0343 1058
9bd3e22c
NM
1059NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1060 Patch from Alain Williams
1061
bb576ff7
NM
1062NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1063
5a1a5845
NM
1064NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1065 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1066
981a9fad
NM
1067NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1068 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1069
7fc497ee
NM
1070NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1071
1a41defa
JJ
1072JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1073
a466095c 1074NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1075 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1076
94a6bd0b
NM
1077TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1078
1079TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1080
1081MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1082 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1083 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1084
c1b141a8
NM
1085NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1086 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1087
b26eacf1 1088NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1089 Patch by Simon Arlott
1090
179c5980 1091PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1092 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1093
9bd3e22c 1094
7c6d71af
NM
1095Exim version 4.71
1096-----------------
1097
7d9f747b 1098TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1099
f013fb92
NM
1100NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1101
0eb8eedd
NM
1102NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1103
663ee6d9
NM
1104NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1105
177ebd9b
NM
1106NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1107
7c6d71af 1108
210f147e
NM
1109Exim version 4.70
1110-----------------
1111
cdd3bb85 1112TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1113 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1114
1115TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1116 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1117 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1118
1119TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1120 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1121 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1122
1123TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1124 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1125
210f147e
NM
1126NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1127 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1128 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1129 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1130
deafd5b3
NM
1131NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1132 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1133 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1134
089793a4
TF
1135TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1136
5f16ca82
TF
1137TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1138
dae9d94e 1139NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1140 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1141
7d9f747b 1142NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1143
06864c44
TF
1144TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1145 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1146 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1147 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1148
65a7d8c3 1149NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1150 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1151
23510047 1152TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1153
7d9f747b 1154NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1155
7d8eec3a 1156NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1157 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1158
89dec7b6
TF
1159TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1160 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1161
a99de90c
TF
1162TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1163 that they are available at delivery time.
1164
e2803e40
TF
1165TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1166
7199e1ee
TF
1167TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1168 incoming_port log selectors.
1169
e276e04b
TF
1170TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1171 setting expands to an empty string.
1172
ce552449 1173NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1174 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1175
e765a0f1 1176NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1177 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1178
4f054c63 1179NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1180 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1181
7d9f747b
PP
1182NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1183 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1184
7d9f747b
PP
1185NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1186 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1187
b52bc06e 1188NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1189 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1190
447de4b0
NM
1191NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1192
4c69d561 1193NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1194 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1195
d5c39246 1196NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1197 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1198
0b23848a
TK
1199TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1200
8f3414a1 1201NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1202 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1203
fb6f955d
NM
1204NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1205
1206NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1207
7d9f747b
PP
1208NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1209 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1210
7d9f747b
PP
1211NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1212 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1213
7d9f747b
PP
1214NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1215 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1216
7d9f747b
PP
1217NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1218 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1219
7d9f747b
PP
1220NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1221 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1222
7d9f747b
PP
1223NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1224 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1225
7d9f747b
PP
1226NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1227 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1228
7d9f747b 1229NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1230 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1231
7d9f747b 1232NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1233
7d9f747b
PP
1234NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1235 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1236
7d9f747b 1237NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1238
7d9f747b 1239NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1240
7d9f747b 1241NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1242
7d9f747b 1243NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1244
17792b53 1245NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1246 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1247
7d9f747b
PP
1248NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1249 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1250
91576cec 1251NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1252 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1253
7d9f747b
PP
1254NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1255 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1256
7d9f747b 1257NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1258
7d9f747b 1259NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1260
7d9f747b 1261NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1262
7d9f747b 1263NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1264
deafd5b3 1265
47db1125
NM
1266Exim version 4.69
1267-----------------
1268
4b3504d0
TK
1269TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1270 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1271 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1272
1273 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1274 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1275 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1276 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1277 build errors in sieve.c.
1278
81ea09ca
NM
1279NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1280 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1281 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1282
f13cddcb
SC
1283SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1284
7d9f747b 1285NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1286
7d9f747b 1287NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1288
7d9f747b 1289NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1290
1291
eb4c0de6
PH
1292Exim version 4.68
1293-----------------
1294
1295PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1296
6a3bceb1
PH
1297PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1298 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1299 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1300 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1301 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1302 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1303 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1304 for iplsearch lookups.
1305
1306 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1307 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1308 previously such lookups could never work.
1309
1310 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1311 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1312 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1313
2e30fa9d
TK
1314TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1315 version.
1316
0806a9c5
MH
1317MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1318 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1319 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1320 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1321 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1322 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1323
ae276964
TK
1324TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1325 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1326
0f2cbd1b
MH
1327MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1328 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1329 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1330 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1331 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1332 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1333
2b85bce7
PH
1334PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1335 local_scan API.
1336
93655c46
PH
1337PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1338
6c512171
PH
1339PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1340 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1341 encrypted.
1342
1343PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1344 by clients under certain conditions.
1345
aa6dc513
PH
1346PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1347 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1348
a96603a0
PH
1349PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1350
8f240103
PH
1351PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1352 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1353
1354PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1355
d677b2f2
PH
1356PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1357
d52120f2
PH
1358PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1359
64f2600a
PH
1360PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1361 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1362
8669f003
PH
1363PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1364
a4dc33a8
PH
1365PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1366 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1367
d6a60c0f
PH
1368PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1369
8f128379
PH
1370PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1371
8932dffe
PH
1372PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1373 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1374 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1375 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1376
ddea74fa 1377PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1378 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1379 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1380
ddea74fa 1381PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1382 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1383
ddea74fa
PH
1384PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1385
ce9f225c
PH
1386PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1387
19897d52
PH
1388PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1389
bc64a74d
PH
1390PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1391 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1392 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1393
eb4c0de6 1394
b4ed4da0
PH
1395Exim version 4.67
1396-----------------
1397
22ad45c9
MH
1398MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1399 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1400 Jan Srzednicki.
1401
b4ed4da0
PH
1402PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1403 issue a MAIL command.
1404
431b7361
PH
1405PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1406
1407 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1408
1409 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1410 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1411 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1412 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1413 item. This has been fixed.
1414
1415PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1416 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1417
83da1223
PH
1418PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1419 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1420
54fc8428
PH
1421PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1422 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1423 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1424
34c5e8dd
SC
1425SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1426
bbe15da8
PH
1427PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1428 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1429 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1430 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1431 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1432
0e8a9471
MH
1433MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1434 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1435 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1436
f0872424
PH
1437PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1438 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1439 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1440 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1441
b01dd148
PH
1442PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1443
6bf342e1
PH
1444PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1445
273f34d0
PH
1446PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1447 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1448 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1449 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1450 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1451
cf8b11a5
PH
1452PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1453
41c7c167
PH
1454PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1455 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1456 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1457 values).
1458
9c57cbc0
PH
1459PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1460
f3f065bb
PH
1461PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1462
047bdd8c
PH
1463PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1464
0ce9abe6
PH
1465PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1466
0e22dfd1
PH
1467PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1468
4c590bd1
PH
1469PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1470 no_callout_flush is set.
1471
09945f1e
PH
1472PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1473 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1474 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1475 fixed.
1476
c51b8e75
PH
1477PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1478
e28326d8
PH
1479PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1480 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1481 other ACL rejections are.
1482
75b1493f
PH
1483PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1484 with slight modification.
1485
7c5214ec
PH
1486PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1487 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1488
4311097e
PH
1489PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1490 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1491 connection.
1492
29f89cad
PH
1493PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1494 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1495
5e687460
SC
1496SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1497
c3611384
PH
1498PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1499 expansion side effects.
1500
5a11a7b4
PH
1501PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1502 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1503 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1504 be the same.
1505
0e20aff9
MH
1506MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1507 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1508 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1509
ca86f471
PH
1510PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1511 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1512 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1513 were accidentally chopped off.
1514
a14e5636
PH
1515PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1516 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1517 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1518 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1519 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1520 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1521 pipelining has not been advertised.
1522
ec95d1a6
PH
1523PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1524
42855d71
PH
1525PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1526 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1527 This has been fixed.
1528
57c2c631
PH
1529PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1530 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1531 reported on Solaris.
1532
58c01c94
PH
1533PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1534 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1535 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1536 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1537 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1538 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1539 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1540
dee5a20a
PH
1541PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1542 cpus.
1543
d2ee6114
PH
1544PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1545
b2d5182b
PH
1546PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1547
79749a79
PH
1548PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1549 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1550 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1551 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1552 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1553 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1554
c456d9bb
PH
1555PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1556 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1557 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1558 host_all_ignored option.
1559
cd9868ec
PH
1560PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1561 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1562 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1563 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1564 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1565 is what is supposed to happen).
1566
ebeaf996
PH
1567PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1568 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1569 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1570 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1571 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1572 uses the Exim user.
1573
2679d413
PH
1574PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1575 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1576 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1577 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1578 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1579 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1580 users.
1581
84024b72
PH
1582PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1583
8005d38e
SC
1584SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1585 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1586 (Jez Hancock).
1587 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1588 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1589
3298c6c6
SC
1590SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1591
a43a27c5
PH
1592PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1593
58eb016e 1594PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1595 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1596 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1597 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1598 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1599 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1600 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1601 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1602 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1603 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1604 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1605
b43a74ea
PH
1606PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1607 advertised in response to EHLO.
1608
b4ed4da0 1609
5dd1517f
PH
1610Exim version 4.66
1611-----------------
1612
1613PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1614 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1615
1616 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1617 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1618
1619 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1620 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1621 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1622
1623 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1624 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1625 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1626 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1627 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1628
1629
93cfa765
TK
1630Exim version 4.65
1631-----------------
1632
1633TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1634 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1635 versions. (#438)
1636
d6066548
MH
1637MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1638 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1639 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1640
4362ff0d
PH
1641PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1642 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1643 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1644 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1645 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1646 rather than extend the field.
1647
93cfa765 1648
944e9e9c
TF
1649Exim version 4.64
1650-----------------
aa41d2de 1651
21d74bd9
TK
1652TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1653 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1654 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1655 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1656 these files.
1657
1658TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1659 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1660 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1661
1662TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1663 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1664 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1665
1666TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1667 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1668 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1669 in the field name.
1670
2b1c6e3a
PH
1671PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1672 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1673 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1674 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1675 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1676 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1677 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1678 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1679 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1680 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1681 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1682
1f872c80
PH
1683PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1684 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1685
1686PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1687 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1688 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1689 ignores EPIPE as well.
1690
d203e649
PH
1691PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1692 (quoted-printable decoding).
1693
cc2ed8f7 1694PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1695 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1696
ddfcd446
PH
1697PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1698
d45b1de8
PH
1699PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1700
1701PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1702
38a0a95f 1703PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1704 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1705
a2405d83
JJ
1706JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1707 in 4.64-PH/09.
1708
1709JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1710 miscellaneous code fixes
1711
6ea85e9a
PH
1712PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1713 rejections.
1714
26da7e20
PH
1715PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1716 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1717 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1718 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1719 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1720 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1721 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1722 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1723
14aa5a05 1724PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1725 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1726 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1727 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1728 function.
1729 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1730 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1731 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1732 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1733 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1734 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1735 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1736 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1737 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1738
ff75a1f7
PH
1739PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1740 decoding.
1741
e6f6568e
PH
1742PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1743 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1744 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1745 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1746 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1747 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1748 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1749 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1750
d6f6e0dc
PH
1751PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1752 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1753 list.
1754
322050c2
PH
1755PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1756 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1757 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1758 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1759 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1760 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1761 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1762 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1763 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1764 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1765 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1766 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1767 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1768
08955dd3
PH
1769PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1770 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1771 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1772 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1773 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1774 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1775 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1776
1eccaa59
PH
1777PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1778 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1779 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1780 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1781 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1782 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1783 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1784 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1785 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1786 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1787
602e59e5
PH
1788PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1789 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1790 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1791 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1792 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1793
411ef850
PH
1794PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1795 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1796 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1797 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1798 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1799 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1800 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1801
7befa435
PH
1802PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1803 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1804 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1805 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1806 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1807 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1808 been verified.
1809
48da4259 1810PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1811 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1812 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1813 and authorization.)
1814
48da4259
PH
1815PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1816 if any retry times were supplied.
1817
d1d5595c
PH
1818PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1819 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1820 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1821
0ef732d9
PH
1822PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1823
328895cc
PH
1824PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1825
fd700877
PH
1826PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1827 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1828 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1829 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1830 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1831 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1832
8dce1a6f
PH
1833PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1834 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1835
17af4a17
PH
1836PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1837 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1838 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1839
1840PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1841 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1842 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1843 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1844 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1845 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1846 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1847 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1848 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1849
1850 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1851 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1852 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1853 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1854 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1855 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1856 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1857 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1858 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1859
1860 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1861 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1862 hammering the server.
1863
c1114884
PH
1864PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1865 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1866
7a0743eb
PH
1867PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1868
0d85fa3f
PH
1869PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1870 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1871 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1872
1bf43b78
PH
1873PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1874 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1875 one case where this was not true.
1876
520de300
PH
1877PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1878 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1879 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1880 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1881 fails.
1882
48c7f9e2
PH
1883PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1884 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1885 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1886 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1887 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1888 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1889 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1890 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1891 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1892 smtp transport.
1893
99ea1c86
PH
1894PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1895 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1896 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1897 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1898
a2042e78
PH
1899PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1900 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1901
4fbcfc2e
PH
1902PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1903 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1904 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1905
aa41d2de
PH
1906PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1907
af561417
PH
1908PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1909
3cc66b45
PH
1910PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1911
194cc0e4
PH
1912PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1913 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1914 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1915 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1916
a401ddaa
PH
1917PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1918 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1919
4e88a19f
PH
1920PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1921 be meaningful with "accept".
1922
d7d7b289
SC
1923SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1924 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1925
1926SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1927 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1928 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1929
1930SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1931 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1932 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1933 there is data to show.
1934 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1935
1936SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1937 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1938 as well as the number of messages.
1939
1940SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1941 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1942 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1943
1944SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1945 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1946 have a flag are now skipped.
1947
1948SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1949 Added the -emptyok flag.
1950
1951SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1952 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1953
0ea2a468
JJ
1954JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1955 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1956 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1957
1958JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1959 match 4.64-PH/13
1960
1961JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1962 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1963
1964JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1965
1966JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1967 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1968
8a10f5a4
PH
1969PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1970
30e18802
PH
1971PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1972 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1973 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1974 contravention of the specifications.
1975
55728a4f
PH
1976PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1977 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1978 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1979
d7837193
PH
1980PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1981 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1982 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1983
87054a31
PH
1984PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1985
ea2c01d2
MH
1986MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1987 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1988 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1989 some point in the past.
1990
e4fa6968
PH
1991PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1992 transport during callout processing was broken.
1993
56f5d9bd
PH
1994PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1995 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1996
922e1c28
PH
1997PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1998 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1999
21eb6e72
PH
2000PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2001 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2002
a0540757
PH
2003PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2004
944e9e9c 2005
478be7b0
SC
2006Exim version 4.63
2007-----------------
2008
2009SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2010 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2011
2012SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2013 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2014 there is data to show.
2015 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2016
2017SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2018 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2019
2b965a65
TF
2020TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2021 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2022
45b91596
PH
2023TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2024 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2025
c59f5781
TF
2026TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2027 submissions from trusted users.
2028
90fc3069
TF
2029TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2030 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2031
6083aca0
TF
2032TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2033 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2034 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2035 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2036 there is now a framework to start from.
2037
765b530f
PH
2038PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2039 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2040 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2041
4e167a8c
PH
2042PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2043
4608d683
PH
2044PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2045
b8dc3e4a
PH
2046PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2047
5418e93b
PH
2048PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2049 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2050 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2051
b4a9bda2
PH
2052PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2053 libradius.
2054
45b91596
PH
2055PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2056 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2057 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2058
5547e2c5
PH
2059PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2060 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2061 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2062 its arguments.
2063
dbcef0ea
PH
2064PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2065 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2066 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2067 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2068 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2069
25257489
PH
2070PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2071 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2072
c816d124
PH
2073PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2074
a9ccd69a
PH
2075PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2076 operations in malware.c.
2077
75fa1910
PH
2078PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2079 signatures.
2080
a7d7aa58
PH
2081PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2082 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2083 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2084 all.
2085
42119b09
PH
2086PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2087 statements to "add_header".
2088
41609df5
PH
2089PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2090 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2091
a5bd321b
PH
2092PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2093 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2094 latter.
2095
e85a7ad5 2096PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2097 so that it is now:
2098
e85a7ad5
PH
2099 ${if or { \
2100 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2101 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2102 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2103 }{no}{yes}}
2104
e85a7ad5
PH
2105 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2106 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2107
d8fe1c03
PH
2108PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2109 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2110
16282d2b
PH
2111PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2112 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2113 any possible encoding problems.
2114
35d40a98
PH
2115PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2116 but not after initializing Perl.
2117
034d99ab
PH
2118PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2119 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2120 apparently, which is not desirable.
2121
6ec97b1b
PH
2122PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2123 queries.
2124
e22ca4ac
JJ
2125JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2126 --not options
2127
2128JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2129
33d73e3b
PH
2130PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2131 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2132 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2133 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2134
9ecb03f3
PH
2135PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2136 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2137 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2138
084efe8d
PH
2139PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2140 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2141 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2142 0.12.
2143
366fc9f0
PH
2144PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2145 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2146 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2147 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2148 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2149
c59f5781 2150
c887c79e
TF
2151Exim version 4.62
2152-----------------
2153
2154TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2155 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2156
1cce3af8
PH
2157PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2158 patch).
2159
afb3eaaf
PH
2160PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2161 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2162 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2163 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2164 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2165 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2166 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2167 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2168 451 error is used.
2169
e173618b
PH
2170PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2171
dd16e114
PH
2172PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2173 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2174 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2175
f7fd3850
PH
2176PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2177 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2178 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2179 odd errors.
2180
d87df92c
PH
2181PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2182 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2183
7e9f683d
PH
2184PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2185 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2186 option (which defaults to 0600).
2187
bfad5236
PH
2188PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2189
01c490df
PH
2190PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2191 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2192 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2193 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2194 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2195 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2196 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2197
d6629cdc
PH
2198PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2199
1cce3af8 2200
214e2000
PH
2201Exim version 4.61
2202-----------------
2203
2204PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2205 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2206 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2207 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2208 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2209 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2210 addresses as local.
2211
f9daeae0
PH
2212PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2213 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2214
7e66e54d
PH
2215PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2216
c8ea1597
PH
2217PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2218 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2219 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2220 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2221 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2222 grumble.
2223
911f6fde
PH
2224PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2225 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2226
47ca6d6c
PH
2227PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2228 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2229 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2230 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2231 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2232
ed0e9820
PH
2233PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2234 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2235 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2236 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2237
eff37e47
PH
2238PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2239 be the same on different OS.
2240
1921d2ea
PH
2241PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2242 testing.
2243
b3f69ca8
JJ
2244JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2245 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2246
2247JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2248 in 4.61-PH/06
2249
424a1c63
PH
2250PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2251 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2252 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2253 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2254 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2255 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2256 bounce message.
2257
7a100415
PH
2258PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2259 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2260 when Exim was called.
2261
19b9dc85
PH
2262PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2263 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2264
309bd837
PH
2265PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2266 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2267 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2268 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2269
59e82a2a
PH
2270PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2271 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2272 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2273 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2274 changes:
2275
2276 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2277 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2278 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2279
2280 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2281 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2282 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2283
9edc04ce
PH
2284PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2285 feature).
2286
1349e1e5
PH
2287PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2288 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2289 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2290 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2291 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2292 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2293 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2294 values from the SRV records were lost.
2295
ea49d0e1
PH
2296PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2297 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2298 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2299
064a94c9
PH
2300PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2301 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2302 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2303
727071f8
PH
2304PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2305 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2306 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2307 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2308 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2309 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2310 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2311 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2312 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2313 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2314
f78eb7c6
PH
2315PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2316 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2317 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2318
21c28500
PH
2319PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2320 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2321
2322PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2323 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2324 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2325 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2326 is given.
2327
1688f43b
PH
2328PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2329 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2330 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2331
2332PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2333 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2334 PH/23 above applies.
2335
9675b384
PH
2336PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2337 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2338 (for which there is an explicit test).
2339
6a3f1455
PH
2340PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2341
dac79d3e
PH
2342PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2343 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2344 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2345 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2346 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2347
5977a0b3
PH
2348PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2349 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2350 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2351 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2352
c91535f3
PH
2353PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2354 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2355 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2356
0d46a8c8
PH
2357PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2358
278c6e6c
PH
2359PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2360
2cbb4081
PH
2361PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2362 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2363 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2364
3eef829e
PH
2365PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2366 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2367 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2368 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2369 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2370
1ab95fa6
PH
2371PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2372 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2373 the message gets confusing).
2374
230205fc
PH
2375PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2376 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2377 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2378 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2379
75e0e026
PH
2380PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2381 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2382 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2383 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2384 same order.
2385
2386PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2387 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2388 the different processes.
2389
145396a6
PH
2390PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2391
3cd34f13
PH
2392PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2393
11121d3d
JJ
2394JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2395 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2396
2397JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2398 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2399
2400JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2401 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2402 messages matching specified criteria.
2403
8def5aaf
PH
2404PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2405
929ba01c
PH
2406PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2407 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2408
2632889e
PH
2409PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2410 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2411 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2412 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2413 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2414 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2415 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2416 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2417 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2418 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2419
944a9c55
PH
2420PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2421 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2422 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2423
4a23603b
PH
2424PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2425
4730f942
PH
2426PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2427 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2428 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2429 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2430 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2431 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2432 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2433 the variable.
2434
30dba1e6
PH
2435PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2436 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2437
382afc6b
PH
2438PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2439
a86229cf
PH
2440PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2441
50c99ba6
PH
2442PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2443
d35e429d
PH
2444PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2445 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2446 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2447 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2448 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2449 size of the count of files.
2450
f90d018c
PH
2451PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2452
75def545
PH
2453PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2454 used in LMTP mode:
2455
2456 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2457 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2458 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2459 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2460
2461 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2462 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2463 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2464
2465PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2466 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2467 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2468 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2469 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2470
c46782ef
PH
2471PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2472 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2473
71fafd95
PH
2474PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2475 will now be deprecated.
2476
2c5db4fd
PH
2477PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2478
9cf6b11a
JJ
2479JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2480 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2481 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2482
2483JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2484 with very large, slow to parse queues
2485
2486JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2487
2488JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2489
898d150f
PH
2490PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2491 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2492 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2493 SMTP output lines.
2494
46218253
PH
2495PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2496 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2497 Sieve code now uses this.
2498
e97957bc
PH
2499PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2500 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2501
81e509d7
PH
2502PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2503 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2504
3d240ff7
PH
2505PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2506
b37c4101
PH
2507PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2508 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2509 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2510 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2511 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2512
79378e0f
PH
2513PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2514 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2515 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2516 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2517
e49c7bb4
PH
2518PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2519
d114ec46
PH
2520PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2521
f3d7df6c
PH
2522PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2523 is preferred over IPv4.
2524
715ab376
PH
2525PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2526 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2527 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2528 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2529 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2530 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2531 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2532
6b31b150
PH
2533PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2534 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2535 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2536
2537PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2538
d515a917
PH
2539PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2540 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2541 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2542 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2543 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2544 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2545 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2546 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2547 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2548 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2549 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2550
9b8fadde
PH
2551PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2552 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2553 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2554
214e2000 2555
5de37277
PH
2556Exim version 4.60
2557-----------------
2558
cc38ddbf
PH
2559PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2560
2561 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2562 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2563
2564 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2565 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2566 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2567
72fdd6ae
PH
2568PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2569
2570 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2571 not a single digit.
2572
2573 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2574 string.
2575
2576 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2577 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2578 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2579 silly things.
2580
2581 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2582 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2583
2584 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2585 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2586
cb741023
PH
2587PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2588 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2589 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2590
f174f16e
PH
2591PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2592 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2593
c25242d7
PH
2594PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2595 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2596
2597 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2598
2599 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2600 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2601 this:
2602
2603 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2604
82c19f95
PH
2605PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2606 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2607 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2608 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2609 identical. For example:
2610
2611 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2612
2613 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2614 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2615 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2616
d7ffbc12
PH
2617PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2618 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2619 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2620 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2621
9f526266
PH
2622PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2623 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2624 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2625 message.
2626
87fcc8b9
PH
2627PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2628
2629 o fixes some comments
2630 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2631 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2632 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2633 and documents the missing references header update
2634
2635 and most important:
2636
2637 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2638 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2639 result)
2640
456682f5
PH
2641PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2642 Electronic Mail") by including:
2643
2644 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2645
2646 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2647 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2648 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2649 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2650 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2651
2652 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2653
2654 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2655
2656 The auto-replied keyword:
2657
2658 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2659 message by an automatic process,
2660
2661 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2662
2663 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2664 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2665
2666 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2667 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2668 other messages.
2669
3e46c1aa
PH
2670PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2671 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2672
49826d12
PH
2673PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2674
eba0c039
PH
2675PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2676 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2677 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2678
a0d6ba8a
PH
2679PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2680 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2681 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2682
f0917727
PH
2683PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2684 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2685 and treats the condition as false.
2686
096fee00
PH
2687PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2688
024bd3c2
PH
2689PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2690 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2691 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2692 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2693 not changing the active code.
2694
2695 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2696 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2697
2698 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2699 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2700
df199fec
PH
2701PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2702 (Bugzilla #53).
2703
d27f1df3
PH
2704PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2705 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2706 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2707 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2708 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2709 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2710 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2711 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2712 the text comparison.
2713
96776534
PH
2714PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2715 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2716 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2717 The same fix has been applied.
2718
5de37277 2719
9a799bc0
PH
2720Exim version 4.54
2721-----------------
2722
2723PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2724 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2725 It now does.
2726
99a4b039
PH
2727PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2728 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2729
2730PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2731
4b233853
PH
2732PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2733 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2734 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2735 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2736 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2737
8857ccfd
PH
2738TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2739 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2740 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2741 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2742 or /domain=).
2743
433a2980
PH
2744PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2745 testing suite.
2746
3e46c1aa 2747
9a799bc0 2748
e3a311ba
TK
2749Exim version 4.53
2750-----------------
2751
2752TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2753 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2754
13b685f9
PH
2755PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2756
395ff96d
PH
2757PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2758
5b68f6e4
PH
2759PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2760 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2761 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2762
1ab52c69
PH
2763PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2764 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2765 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2766
b07e6aa3
PH
2767PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2768 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2769 operating systems.
2770
254e032f
PH
2771PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2772 ${stat: expansion item.
2773
3af76a81
PH
2774PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2775 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2776
2548ba04
PH
2777PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2778 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2779 file for comments.
2780
b6c6011d
PH
2781PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2782
cf39cf57
PH
2783PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2784 setting.
2785
f1513293
PH
2786PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2787 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2788
727549a4
PH
2789TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2790
af46795e
PH
2791PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2792 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2793 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2794 the end of the subprocess.
2795
d7b47fd0
PH
2796PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2797 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2798 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2799 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2800 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2801
ee744174
JJ
2802JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2803
b582ab87
PH
2804TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2805
41a13e0a
PH
2806PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2807 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2808
f625cc5a
PH
2809PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2810
2811PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2812
21f7af35
PH
2813PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2814 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2815 HP-UX compiler.
2816
31480e42
PH
2817PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2818
2d280592
PH
2819PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2820 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2821 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2822
7cd1141b
PH
2823PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2824 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2825
2826PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2827 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2828
750af86e
PH
2829PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2830 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2831
2832 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2833 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2834
2835 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2836 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2837 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2838 contributed by a Radius user.
2839
2840PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2841 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2842
4304270b
TK
2843TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2844 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2845
750af86e
PH
2846PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2847 available.
2848
64ffc24f
PH
2849PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2850 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2851 received.
2852
5dd9625b
PH
2853PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2854 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2855 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2856 header lines when this was not necessary.
2857
5591031b
PH
2858PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2859
ba18e66a
PH
2860PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2861 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2862 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2863 exists".
2864
9cec981f
PH
2865PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2866 -bV or -d is used.
2867
aa2b5c79
PH
2868PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2869 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2870 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2871 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2872
48a53b7f
PH
2873PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2874
1c59d63b
PH
2875PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2876
671012da
TK
2877TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2878
1509d3a8
PH
2879PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2880
2881PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2882 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2883 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2884 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2885 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2886 settings.
2887
2888PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2889
2fe1a124
PH
2890PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2891 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2892 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2893 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2894 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2895 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2896 which is clearly wrong.
2897
8800895a
PH
2898PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2899
ccfdb010
PH
2900PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2901 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2902 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2903 subsequently added.
2904
1130bfb0
PH
2905PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2906 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2907
ebcb507f
PH
2908PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2909
c35e155c
PH
2910PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2911 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2912
95d1f782
PH
2913PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2914 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2915
fd6de02e
PH
2916PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2917 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2918
58de37c5
PH
2919PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2920 recipients, not senders.
2921
261cf466
TF
2922TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2923 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2924
3ee512ff
PH
2925PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2926
e08c430f
PH
2927PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2928
bef5a11f
PH
2929PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2930 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2931 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2932 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2933
7546de58
TF
2934TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2935
e5d5a95f
TF
2936TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2937 clock is set back in time.
2938
2e88a017
TF
2939TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2940 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2941
a5f65aa4
TF
2942TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2943 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2944
e7726cbf
PH
2945PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2946 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2947 (see PH/47 above).
2948
a7fdad5b
TF
2949TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2950 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2951 header rewrites.
2952
6af56900
PH
2953PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2954 type ("H").
2955
0925ede6
PH
2956PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2957
66afa403
TF
2958TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2959 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2960 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2961
0154e85a
TF
2962TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2963 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2964 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2965 helo verification defer as a failure.
2966
16f12c76
PH
2967PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2968 actual error message.
2969
bbe902f0 2970
e5a9dba6
PH
2971Exim version 4.52
2972-----------------
2973
2974TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2975
22c3b60b
PH
2976PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2977 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2978 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2979 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2980
06a9b4b5
PH
2981TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2982
c1ac6996
PH
2983PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2984 can still be requested.
2985
9c7a242c
PH
2986PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2987 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2988 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2989 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2990
87ba3f5f
PH
2991TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2992 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2993 circumstances, but probably never did.
2994
2995PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2996 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2997 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2998 in the header line.
2999
29aba418
TF
3000TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3001
fe0dab11
TF
3002TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3003 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3004
11d337a4
TK
3005TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3006
3007TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3008
415c8f3b
PH
3009PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3010 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3011 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3012 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3013 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3014 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3015
958541e9
PH
3016PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3017 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3018 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3019 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3020 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3021 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3022
c206415f
TK
3023TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3024 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3025
2a4be8f9
PH
3026PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3027 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3028
1cba11c5
SC
3029SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3030 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3031
3032SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3033
3034SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3035
3036SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3037
3038SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3039
3040SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3041
3042SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3043
1005d00e
TK
3044TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3045
3046TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3047 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3048 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3049
3050TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3051 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3052 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3053 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3054
9b4768fa
PH
3055PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3056 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3057 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3058
3059PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3060 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3061 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3062 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3063
0d7eb84a
PH
3064PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3065 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3066 to be made).
3067
3068PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3069 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3070 should work with maildirs and everything.
3071
40727bee
TK
3072TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3073 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3074
554d2369
TF
3075TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3076 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3077
1f922db1
PH
3078PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3079 function for BDB 4.3.
3080
ef213c3b
PH
3081PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3082
8ac170f3
PH
3083PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3084 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3085 involved.
3086
b1c749bb
PH
3087PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3088 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3089 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3090 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3091 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3092 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3093
4aac9b49
PH
3094PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3095 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3096 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3097 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3098 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3099 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3100 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3101 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3102
294520c8
TK
3103TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3104 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3105 details.
3106
5bd022fe
PH
3107PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3108 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3109
90e9ce59
PH
3110PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3111 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3112 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3113 test. It is now used for both.
3114
5ea81592
PH
3115PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3116 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3117 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3118 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3119 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3120 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3121
c6c2dc1d
PH
3122PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3123 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3124 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3125 string_vformat().
3126
fffffe4c
PH
3127PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3128 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3129 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3130
9a26b6b2
PH
3131PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3132 experimental DomainKeys support:
3133
3134 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3135 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3136 the control was given.
3137
3138 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3139
4aee0225
PH
3140PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3141
32d668a5
PH
3142PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3143
8187c3f3
PH
3144PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3145 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3146 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3147 db.h files).
3148
ff790e47 3149PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3150 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3151 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3152 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3153 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3154 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3155 course.
ff790e47 3156
5417f6d1
PH
3157PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3158 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3159 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3160 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3161 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3162 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3163
59cf8544
PH
3164PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3165 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3166 do -d+all out of habit.
3167
e7ad8a65
PH
3168PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3169 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3170 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3171
ade42478
PH
3172PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3173 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3174 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3175 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3176 record types that Exim uses.
3177
182ad5cf
PH
3178PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3179 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3180 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3181 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3182 non-existent file that was broken.
3183
b0d9fc80
TK
3184TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3185 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3186
3187TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3188 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3189 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3190
3191TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3192
47c7a64a
PH
3193PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3194 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3195 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3196 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3197 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3198 same time.
3199
a388bce4
SC
3200SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3201 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3202 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3203 at a slight CPU cost.
3204
3205SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3206 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3207
3208SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3209 by Marc Sherman.
3210
0793e4ed
SC
3211SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3212
c58b88df
PH
3213PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3214 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3215
e7ad8a65 3216
7982096b
PH
3217Exim version 4.51
3218-----------------
3219
1a46a8c5
PH
3220TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3221 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3222
2f079f46 3223TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3224
3225TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3226
3227PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3228 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3229
3230PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3231 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3232 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3233 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3234 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3235 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3236 file.
3237
3238PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3239 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3240 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3241 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3242 these two options.
3243
3244PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3245 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3246 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3247 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3248 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3249 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3250 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3251 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3252
3253PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3254 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3255
3256PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3257 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3258 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3259 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3260 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3261 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3262
3263PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3264 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3265 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3266 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3267
3268PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3269 Finch).
3270
3271PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3272 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3273
49c2d5ea
PH
3274PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3275 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3276 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3277 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3278 message.
49c2d5ea 3279
bf759a8b
PH
3280PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3281
83364d30
PH
3282PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3283 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3284
7999bbd7
PH
3285PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3286 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3287 to what was transported.)
3288
7dbf77c9
PH
3289TF/01 Added $received_time.
3290
74e0617f
PH
3291PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3292 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3293 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3294 spamd_address settings.
3295
2f079f46
PH
3296PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3297 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3298 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3299 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3300 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3301
8c841523
PH
3302PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3303
7766a4f0
PH
3304PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3305 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3306 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3307 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3308 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3309
8b417f2c
PH
3310PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3311 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3312
901f42cb
PH
3313PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3314 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3315 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3316 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3317 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3318 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3319 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3320 for failure.
3321
f9b9210e
PH
3322PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3323 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3324 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3325 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3326 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3327 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3328 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3329 "input=".
3330
54cdb463
PH
3331PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3332
cf00dad6
PH
3333PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3334 driver and ACL definitions.
3335
acb1b346
PH
3336PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3337 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3338
c5ddb310
PH
3339PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3340 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3341 understands it better than I do:
3342
3343 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3344 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3345
3346 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3347 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3348 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3349 => three warnings about OTP not working
3350 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3351
3352 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3353 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3354 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3355 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3356 for each call.)
3357 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3358 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3359
3360 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3361 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3362 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3363
31619da6
PH
3364PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3365 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3366 specified.
3367
bebaf0fc
PH
3368PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3369 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3370 "Linux".
3371
475fe28a
PH
3372PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3373 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3374 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3375
3376 warn !verify = sender
3377 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3378
3379 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3380 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3381
7e8bec7a
PH
3382PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3383
3384 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3385 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3386
3387 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3388 nomenclature these days.)
3389
e4a89c47
PH
3390PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3391 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3392
5ca2a9a1
PH
3393PH/30 In these circumstances:
3394 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3395 . First host does not offer TLS;
3396 . First host accepts first address;
3397 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3398 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3399 . Second host accepts second address.
3400 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3401 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3402 address.
7e8bec7a 3403
c688b954
PH
3404PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3405 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3406 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3407 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3408 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3409
fed77020
PH
3410PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3411 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3412
7fe1560f
PH
3413PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3414 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3415
ebb6e6d5
PH
3416PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3417 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3418 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3419
9c4e8f60
PH
3420PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3421 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3422 overlooked.
3423
3424PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3425
d7174846
PH
3426PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3427 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3428 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3429 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3430 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3431 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3432 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3433
3434 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3435 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3436 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3437 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3438 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3439
3440 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3441 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3442 routed further.
3443
cfe75fc3
PH
3444PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3445 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3446 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3447 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3448 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3449 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3450
be22d70e
PH
3451PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3452
0612b098
PH
3453PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3454 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3455 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3456 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3457 printable escape sequences.
3458
2e0c1448
PH
3459PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3460 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3461 body only.
3462
447d236c
PH
3463PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3464 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3465 are as follows:
3466
3467 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3468 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3469 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3470 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3471 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3472
3473 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3474 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3475 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3476
d20976dc
PH
3477PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3478
f656d135
PH
3479PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3480 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3481 play with."
3482
2e2a30b4
PH
3483PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3484 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3485 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3486 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3487 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3488 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3489 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3490 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3491 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3492 the log output.
3493
9176e9f0
PH
3494PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3495 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3496 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3497 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3498 "make".
3499
7982096b 3500
bbe902f0
PH
3501A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3502----------------------------------------
3503
3504Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3505changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3506needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3507in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3508that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3509release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3510from 4.43.
3511
3512I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
35134.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3514those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3515historical information.
3516
3517
f7b63901 3518Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3519-----------------
3520
5fe762f6
PH
3521 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3522
139059f6 3523 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3524 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3525
7086e875
PH
3526 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3527 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3528 place.
3529
35af9f61
PH
3530 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3531 filter fails to execute.
3532
b668c215
PH
3533 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3534 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3535 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3536 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3537 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3538
a494b1e1
PH
3539 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3540
3541 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3542 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3543 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3544 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3545
c5fcb476
PH
3546 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3547 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3548 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3549 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3550 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3551
69358f02
PH
3552 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3553
5be20824
PH
355410. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3555
eb2c0248
PH
355611. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3557 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3558 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3559 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3560
2a3eea10
PH
356112. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3562 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3563 sender verification.
3564
356513. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3566 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3567
23c7ff99
PH
356814. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3569
4deaf07d
PH
357015. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3571 connection timeout.
3572
926e1192
PH
357316. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3574 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3575
650edc6f
PH
357617. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3577 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3578
2c7db3f5
PH
357918. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3580 information about exactly what failed.
3581
3d235903
PH
358219. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3583
7c7ad977
PH
358420. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3585 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3586 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3587
981756db
PH
358821. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3589 It is now set to "smtps".
3590
d4eb88df
PH
359122. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3592 ignore_target_hosts.
3593
359423. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3595 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3596 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3597 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3598 "[x.x.x.x]".
3599
7d468ab8
PH
360024. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3601 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3602 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3603
360425. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3605 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3606 wake it up if nothing else does.
3607
62c0818f
PH
360826. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3609 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3610 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3611 end up negative.
3612
26034054
PH
361327. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3614 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3615
af66f652
PH
361628. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3617
90af77f4
PH
361829. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3619 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3620 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3621 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3622 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3623 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3624 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3625 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3626
d8ef3577
PH
362730. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3628 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3629 than one IP address.
3630
5cb8cbc6
PH
363131. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3632 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3633 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3634 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3635
14702f5b
PH
363632. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3637 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3638 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3639 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3640 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3641 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3642
063b1e99
PH
364333. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3644 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3645 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3646 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3647
652e1b65
PH
364834. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3649 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3650 respected.
3651
6f0c9a4f
PH
365235. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3653 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3654 $sender_host_address.
3655
33397d19
PH
365636. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3657 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3658 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3659 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3660 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3661 very small.
3662
7bb56e1f
PH
366337. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3664
3665 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3666 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3667
ea3bc19b
PH
3668 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3669 just the host names, not the priorities.
3670
3671 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3672 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3673 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3674
ea3bc19b 3675 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3676 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3677
0bcb2a0e
PH
367838. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3679 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3680 domain.
3681
2ac0e484
PH
368239. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3683
4e1fde53
PH
368440. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3685 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3686
de365ded
PH
368741. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3688 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3689 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3690
f05da2e8
PH
369142. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3692
d6453af2
PH
369343. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3694
f7b63901
PH
369544. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3696
369745. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3698 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3699 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3700 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3701 because the tests only now provoked it.
3702
a444213a
PH
370346. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3704 (this can affect the format of dates).
3705
0ec020ea
PH
370647. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3707 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3708 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3709 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3710
b1206957
PH
371148. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3712
371349. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3714 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3715 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3716 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3717
26dd5a95
PH
371850. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3719 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3720 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3721
343b2385
PH
372251. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3723 autoreply.
3724
1c5466b9
PH
372552. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3726 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3727 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3728 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3729 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3730 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3731 is going on).
3732
55ee9ee3
PH
373353. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3734 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3735 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3736 the line.
3737
d38f8232
PH
373854. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3739 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3740 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3741
3742 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3743 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3744 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3745 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3746 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3747 so I produce this patch..."
3748
3295e65b
PH
3749 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3750 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3751 is not defined.
3752
7102e136
PH
375355. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3754 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3755 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3756 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3757 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3758
3ca0ba97
PH
375956. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3760
c2bcbe20
PH
376157. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3762 long debug lines gets shown.
3763
18ce445d
PH
376458. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3765 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3766
1f5b4c3d
PH
376759. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3768
3769 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3770 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3771 of $primary_hostname.
3772
b975ba52
PH
377360. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3774 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3775 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3776 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3777 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3778 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3779 by change 4.50/55 above.
3780
3781 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3782 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3783 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3784 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3785 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3786 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3787 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3788
378961. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3790 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3791 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3792 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3793
17ffcae7
PH
379462. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3795 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3796
d95f9fdb
PH
379763. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3798 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3799 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3800 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3801 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3802
86b8287f
PH
380364. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3804 This has been fixed.
3805
60dc5e56
PH
380665. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3807 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3808 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3809 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3810 the caching.)
3811
533244af
PH
381266. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3813
a5a28604
PH
381467. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3815 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3816 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3817 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3818
7e634d24
PH
381968. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3820 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3821
3e11c26b
PH
382269. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3823 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3824 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3825
6729cf78
PH
382670. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3827 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3828 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3829 message there.
3830
00f00ca5
PH
383171. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3832 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3833 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3834
c9bdd01c
PH
383572. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3836 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3837 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3838 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3839
d43194df
PH
384073. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3841 during host lookups.
3842
fe5b5d0b
PH
384374. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3844 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3845
3846 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3847
76a2d7ba
PH
384875. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3849 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3850 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3851 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3852 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3853 background.
3854
385576. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3856 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3857
04f7d5b9
PH
385877. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3859 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3860 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3861
bc60667e
PH
386278. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3863
bb6e88ff
PH
386479. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3865 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3866 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3867 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3868 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3869 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3870 process earlier.
3871
1e70f85b
PH
387280. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3873 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3874 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3875 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3876 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3877
387881. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3879 tables).
3880
4e01f9d6
PH
388182. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3882
1ee1cef2
PH
388383. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3884 "vacation" handling.
3885
6e2b4ccc
PH
388684. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3887 OS variants using glibc.
3888
8e669ac1
PH
388985. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3890
495ae4b0 3891
bbe902f0
PH
3892----------------------------------------------------
3893See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3894----------------------------------------------------
3895
3896
3897Exim version 4.44
3898-----------------
3899
3900 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3901 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3902 transport
3903
3904 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3905 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3906 place.
3907
3908 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3909 filter fails to execute.
3910
3911 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3912 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3913 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3914 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3915 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3916
3917 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3918 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3919 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3920 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3921
3922 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3923 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3924 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3925 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3926 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3927
3928 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3929
3930 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3931 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3932 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3933 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3934
3935 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3936 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3937 sender verification.
3938
393910. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3940 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3941
394211. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3943 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3944
394512. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3946 ignore_target_hosts.
3947
394813. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3949 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3950 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3951 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3952 "[x.x.x.x]".
3953
395414. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3955 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3956 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3957
395815. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3959 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3960 wake it up if nothing else does.
3961
396216. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3963 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3964 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3965 end up negative.
3966
396717. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3968 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3969
ea3a6f44 397018. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3971
397219. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3973 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3974 empty pattern.
3975
397620. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3977 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3978 one IP address.
3979
ea3a6f44
NM
398021. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3981 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3982 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3983 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3984 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3985 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3986
ea3a6f44
NM
398722. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3988 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3989 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3990
399123. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3992 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3993 $sender_host_address.
3994
399524. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3996
ea3a6f44
NM
399725. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3998 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3999 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4000
400126. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4002 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4003
ea3a6f44
NM
400427. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4005 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4006
ea3a6f44
NM
400728. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4008 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4009 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4010 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4011
401229. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4013 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4014 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4015
ea3a6f44
NM
401630. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4017 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4018 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4019 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4020
ea3a6f44
NM
402131. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4022 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4023 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4024
ea3a6f44
NM
402531. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4026 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4027
ea3a6f44
NM
402832. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4029 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4030 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4031 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4032 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4033 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4034 is going on).
bbe902f0 4035
ea3a6f44
NM
403633. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4037 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4038 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4039 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4040 CAN-2005-0021
4041
ea3a6f44
NM
404234. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4043 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4044 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4045 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4046 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4047 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4048 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4049
4050 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4051 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4052 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4053 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4054 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4055 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4056 CAN-2005-0021
4057
ea3a6f44
NM
405835. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4059 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4060 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4061 CAN-2005-0022
4062
ea3a6f44
NM
406336. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4064 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4065 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4066 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4067 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4068
ea3a6f44
NM
406937. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4070 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4071 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4072 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4073 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4074
ea3a6f44
NM
407538. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4076 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4077 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4078 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4079 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4080
4081
495ae4b0
PH
4082Exim version 4.43
4083-----------------
4084
4085 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4086 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4087 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4088 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4089 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4090 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4091 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4092
4093 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4094 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4095 the delivery.
4096
4097 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4098
4099 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4100
4101 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4102 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4103 to local_scan().
4104
4105 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4106 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4107 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4108 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4109 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4110
4111 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4112 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4113
4114 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4115
4116 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4117
411810. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4119 header_sender only.
4120
412111. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4122 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4123
412412. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4125 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4126 affecting debugging statements).
4127
412813. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4129
413014. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4131 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4132 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4133 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4134 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4135 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4136 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4137 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4138 after the received time, and all would be well.
4139
414015. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4141 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4142 condition in an expansion string.
4143
414416. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4145
414617. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4147 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4148 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4149 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4150 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4151 job under whatever limits there are.
4152
415318. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4154
415519. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4156 space).
4157
415820. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4159 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4160 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4161 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4162 return path is set.
4163
416421. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4165 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4166 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4167 binary data in such strings.
4168
416922. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4170
417123. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4172 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4173 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4174 failure, which is pointless.
4175
417624. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4177
417825. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4179
418026. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4181 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4182 Sender: header lines.
4183
418427. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4185 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4186 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4187
418828. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4189 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4190 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4191 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4192 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4193 happens.
4194
419529. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4196 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4197 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4198 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4199 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4200
420130. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4202 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4203 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4204 1024.
4205
420631. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4207 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4208
420932. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4210 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4211
421233. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4213
421432. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4215
421633. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4217
421834. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4219 syntax error.
4220
422135. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4222
422336. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4224
422537. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4226 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4227 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4228 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4229
423038. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4231 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4232
4233
4234Exim version 4.42
4235-----------------
4236
4237 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4238 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4239 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4240 it was not quoted.
4241 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4242 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4243 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4244 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4245 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4246 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4247
4248 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4249 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4250 verification failure".
4251
4252 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4253 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4254 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4255 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4256
4257 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4258 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4259 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4260 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4261 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4262 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4263 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4264 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4265 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4266 treated as a timeout.
4267
4268 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4269 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4270 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4271 not set for Exim filters).
4272
4273 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4274 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4275 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4276
4277 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4278
4279 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4280 try to make them clearer.
4281
4282 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4283 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4284
4285 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4286
4287 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4288
428910. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4290 only the Cygwin environment.
4291
429211. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4293 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4294 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4295 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4296 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4297
429812. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4299 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4300 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4301 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4302 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4303 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4304 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4305
430613. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4307 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4308
430914. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4310
4311 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4312 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4313 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4314
4315 To: susanne@some.where
4316
4317 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4318 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4319 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4320 of addresses in From: header lines).
4321
4322 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4323 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4324 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4325
4326 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4327 treated as non-personal.
4328
4329 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4330 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4331
433215. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4333
433416. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4335
433617. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4337 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4338 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4339
434018. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4341 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4342
434319. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4344 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4345 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4346 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4347 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4348 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4349
435020. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4351 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4352 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4353 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4354 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4355 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4356 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4357 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4358
4359 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4360
436121. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4362 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4363
436422. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4365 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4366 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4367
436823. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4369 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4370
437124. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4372 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4373 rather than long int.
4374
437525. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4376
437726. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4378
4379
4380Exim version 4.41
4381-----------------
4382
4383 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4384 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4385 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4386 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4387 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4388 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4389
4390
4391Exim version 4.40
4392-----------------
4393
4394 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4395 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4396
4397 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4398 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4399 socklen_t is defined.
4400
4401 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4402 always exist.
4403
4404 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4405 configured.
4406
4407 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4408 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4409 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4410 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4411 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4412
4413 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4414 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4415 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4416 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4417
4418 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4419 of flapping under certain conditions.
4420
4421 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4422 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4423 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4424
4425 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4426
442710. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4428
442911. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4430 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4431 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4432 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4433
443412. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4435 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4436 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4437 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4438 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4439 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4440 preserved with the message after it was received.
4441
444213. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4443 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4444 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4445 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4446 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4447 test suite worked just fine.
4448
444914. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4450 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4451 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4452
445315. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4454 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4455 string.
4456
445716. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4458 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4459 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4460 does not fully solve it.
4461
446217. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4463 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4464 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4465 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4466 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4467
446818. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4469 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4470 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4471
447219. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4473 string, for example:
4474
4475 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4476
4477 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4478 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4479 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4480 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4481 the routers could not see them.
4482
448320. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4484 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4485
448621. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4487 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4488 output).
4489
449022. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4491 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4492 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4493 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4494 that needed quoting.
4495
449623. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4497 was not being matched caselessly.
4498
449924. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4500 backslashes.
4501
450225. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4503 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4504 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4505 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4506 when use_sender is false.
4507
450826. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4509
451027. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4511
451228. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4513
451429. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4515 the configuration file.
4516
451730. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4518 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4519
452031. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4521
452232. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4523 bytes in the message body.
4524
452533. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4526 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4527 delivery.
4528
452934. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4530
453135. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4532
453336. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4534 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4535 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4536 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4537 another IP address.
4538
4539
4540Exim version 4.34
4541-----------------
4542
4543 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4544 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4545
4546 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4547 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4548 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4549 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4550 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4551
4552 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4553 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4554
4555 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4556 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4557 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4558
4559 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4560 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4561 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4562
4563 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4564 for routers.
4565
4566 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4567 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4568 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4569 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4570 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4571 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4572 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4573
4574
4575Exim version 4.33
4576-----------------
4577
4578 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4579 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4580 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4581 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4582 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4583 default (and expected) setting.
4584
4585 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4586 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4587 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4588 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4589
4590 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4591 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4592
4593 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4594 in domain lists.
4595
4596 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4597 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4598 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4599 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4600 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4601 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4602
4603 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4604 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4605 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4606
4607 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4608 part (NOT match_host).
4609
4610 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4611
4612 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4613 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4614 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4615 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4616 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4617 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4618 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4619 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4620 the same named file.
4621
462210. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4623 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4624 when Exim is built.
4625
462611. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4627 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4628 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4629 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4630 a host name.
4631
463212. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4633 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4634 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4635
463613. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4637
463814. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4639
464015. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4641
464216. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4643 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4644
464517. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4646 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4647 before starting the TLS session.
4648
464918. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4650
465119. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4652 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4653
465420. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4655 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4656 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4657 colon in the middle).
4658
4659
4660Exim version 4.32
4661-----------------
4662
4663 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4664 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4665 multiple configurations are in use.
4666
4667 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4668 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4669 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4670 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4671 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4672 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4673
4674 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4675 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4676
4677 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4678 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4679 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4680
4681 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4682 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4683 occurs.
4684
4685 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4686 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4687
4688 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4689
4690 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4691 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4692
4693 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4694
4695 -prval:sval
4696
4697 is equivalent to
4698
4699 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4700
4701 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4702 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4703 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4704 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4705 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4706
470710. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4708 Exim's behaviour:
4709
4710 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4711 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4712 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4713 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4714 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4715 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4716
4717 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4718 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4719 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4720 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4721 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4722 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4723 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4724 string.
4725
4726 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4727 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4728 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4729 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4730 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4731
473211. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4733
473412. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4735 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4736 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4737
473813. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4739
474014. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4741 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4742 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4743 information.
4744
474515. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4746 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4747
474816. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4749 Three changes have been made:
4750
4751 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4752 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4753 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4754 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4755 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4756
4757 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4758 been restored.
4759
4760 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4761 the modified behaviour.
4762
4763
4764Exim version 4.31
4765-----------------
4766
4767 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4768 Larry Rosenman.
4769
4770 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4771 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4772
4773 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4774 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4775 try to track down a specific problem.
4776
4777 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4778 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4779 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4780
4781 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4782 warning.
4783
4784 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4785 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4786 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4787 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4788 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4789 some earlier ones do not.
4790
4791 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4792
4793 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4794 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4795 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4796 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4797 address literals are enabled, of course).
4798
4799 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4800
480110. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4802 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4803 by a command such as
4804
4805 exim -f "" ...
4806
4807 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4808
480911. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4810
481112. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4812 remained set. It is now erased.
4813
481413. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4815 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4816
481714. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4818 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4819 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4820 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4821 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4822 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4823 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4824 appropriate error code.
4825
482615. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4827 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4828 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4829 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4830 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4831 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4832
483316. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4834 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4835 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4836
483717. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4838 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4839 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4840 terminate the header.
4841
484218. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4843 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4844 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4845
484619. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4847 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4848 (4.30/29). In particular:
4849
4850 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4851 imposed.
4852
4853 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4854 to write a maildirsize file.
4855
4856 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4857 the transport, the new value overrides.
4858
4859 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4860 count.
4861
486220. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4863 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4864 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4865 space or a tab.
4866
486721. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4868 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4869 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4870 the fallback hosts.
4871
487222. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4873 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4874 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4875
487623. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4877 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4878 using a union.
4879
488024. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4881 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4882 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4883
488425. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4885
488626. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4887
488827. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4889
489028. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4891 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4892 become corrupted.
4893
489429. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4895 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4896 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4897 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4898 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4899 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4900 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4901 too great.
4902
490330. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4904 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4905 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4906 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4907 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4908 incorrectly.
4909
491031. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4911 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4912 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4913 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4914 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4915 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4916 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4917 cached value only when the same options are set.
4918
491932. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4920
492133. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4922 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4923 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4924 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4925 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4926
492734: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4928 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4929 it is clearly obsolete.
4930
493135. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4932 transport.
4933
493436. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4935 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4936 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4937 times.
4938
493937. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4940 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4941 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4942 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4943 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4944
494538. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4946 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4947 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4948 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4949
495039. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4951
4952 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4953
4954 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4955 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4956 2^31.
4957
495840. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4959 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4960 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4961 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4962 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4963 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4964 $localpart_data.
4965
496641. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4967 with the -f command-line option.
4968
496942. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4970 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4971 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4972 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4973 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4974 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4975
497643. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4977 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4978 line.
4979
498044. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4981 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4982 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4983 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4984 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4985 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4986 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4987 buffer is too small.
4988
498945. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4990 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4991
499246. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4993 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4994 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4995 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4996 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4997 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4998 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4999 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5000 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5001
500247. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5003 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5004 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5005
500648. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5007 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5008 ACL").
5009
501049. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5011 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5012 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5013 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5014 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5015
501650. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5017 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5018 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5019 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5020 is set.
5021
502251. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5023
502452. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5025
502653. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5027 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5028
502954. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5030 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5031 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5032
503355. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5034 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5035 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5036 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5037 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5038
503956. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5040 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5041 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5042 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5043 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5044 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5045 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5046
504757. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5048 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5049 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5050 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5051 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5052 the test of how many are available.
5053
505458. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5055 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5056 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5057 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5058 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5059 new message is started.
5060
506159. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5062 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5063
506460. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5065 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5066
506761. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5068 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5069 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5070 is no long logged.
5071
507262. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5073 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5074 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5075 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5076 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5077 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5078 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5079
508063. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5081 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5082 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5083 interpreted as octal.
5084
508564. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5086 setting.
5087
508865. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5089 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5090 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5091 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5092 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5093 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5094
509566. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5096 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5097 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5098 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5099
5100 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5101 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5102 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5103 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5104
5105 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5106 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5107 is a bug fix.
5108
5109 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5110 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5111
511267. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5113
511468. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5115 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5116 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5117 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5118
511969. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5120 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5121 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5122 supplied", which is not helpful.
5123
512470. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5125 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5126 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5127
512871. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5129 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5130 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5131 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5132 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5133 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5134 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5135 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5136
513772. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5138 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5139 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5140 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5141 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5142
514373. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5144 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5145 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5146 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5147 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5148 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5149
515074. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5151 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5152 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5153
515475. Added write_rejectlog option.
5155
515676. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5157 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5158 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5159 variables.
5160
516177. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5162
516378. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5164 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5165 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5166 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5167 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5168 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5169 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5170 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5171
517279. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5173 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5174 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5175 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5176 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5177
517880. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5179 Haardt.
5180
518181. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5182 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5183 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5184 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5185 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5186 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5187 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5188 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5189 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5190
5191
5192Exim version 4.30
5193-----------------
5194
5195 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5196 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5197 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5198
5199 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5200 fixed.
5201
5202 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5203 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5204 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5205
5206 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5207 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5208 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5209 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5210 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5211 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5212
5213 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5214 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5215 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5216 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5217 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5218 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5219 the Exim test suite.
5220
5221 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5222 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5223 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5224 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5225
5226 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5227 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5228 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5229 specify it in this variable.
5230
5231 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5232 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5233 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5234 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5235
5236 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5237 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5238 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5239 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5240
5241 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5242 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5243 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5244 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5245 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5246
5247 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5248
524910. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5250 they are logged.
5251
525211. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5253 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5254 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5255 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5256 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5257
525812. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5259 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5260
526113. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5262 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5263 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5264 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5265 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5266
526714. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5268 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5269
527015. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5271 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5272 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5273
527416. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5275 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5276
527717. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5278 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5279
528018. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5281 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5282 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5283
528419. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5285 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5286
528720. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5288 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5289 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5290 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5291
529221. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5293
529422. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5295 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5296 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5297 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5298
529923. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5300
530124. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5302 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5303
530425. Added .include_if_exists.
5305
530626. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5307 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5308 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5309 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5310 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5311 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5312
531327. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5314
531528. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5316 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5317 this.
5318
531929. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5320
532130. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5322 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5323
5324 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5325 550 Sender verify failed
5326
5327 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5328 the final line of the response.
5329
533031. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5331 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5332 all other user lookups.
5333
533432. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5335 delivery time.
5336
533733. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5338 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5339 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5340 result into an int without checking.
5341
534234. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5343 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5344 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5345
534635. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5347 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5348 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5349 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5350
535136. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5352 correctly.
5353
535437. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5355 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5356
535738. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5358 to the empty sender.
5359
536039. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5361 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5362 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5363 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5364 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5365 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5366 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5367 panic log.
5368
536940. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5370 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5371 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5372 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5373 used.
5374
537541. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5376 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5377
537842. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5379 timestamps.
5380
538143. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5382 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5383
538444. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5385
538645. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5387 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5388 logs.
5389
539046. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5391 as soon as it is encountered.
5392
539347. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5394
539548. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5396 rewritten to "<>".
5397
539849. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5399 recognizes a tab character.
5400
540150. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5402 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5403 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5404 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5405
540651. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5407
540852. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5409 crash.
5410
541153. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5412
541354. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5414
541555. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5416 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5417 2822.
5418
541956. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5420 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5421 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5422 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5423 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5424
542557. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5426 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5427
542858. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5429 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5430 list (.included file names were always shown).
5431
543259. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5433 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5434 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5435 root at that time.
5436
543760. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5438 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5439
544061. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5441
544262. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5443
544463. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5445
544664. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5447 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5448 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5449 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5450 failures to open the logs.
5451
545265. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5453 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5454 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5455 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5456 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5457 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5458 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5459
5460
5461Exim version 4.24
5462-----------------
5463
5464 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5465 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5466 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5467 change 4.23/1.
5468
5469 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5470 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5471 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5472
5473 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5474 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5475 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5476
5477 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5478 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5479 causing some misleading effects.
5480
5481 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5482 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5483 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5484
5485 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5486 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5487 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5488 queue-runner function directly.
5489
5490
5491Exim version 4.23
5492-----------------
5493
5494 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5495 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5496
5497 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5498 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5499 was always written to the default place.
5500
5501 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5502 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5503 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5504
5505 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5506
5507 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5508
5509 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5510 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5511 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5512
5513 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5514 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5515 must start.
5516
5517 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5518 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5519 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5520
5521 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5522 command line option is disabled.
5523
5524 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5525 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5526
5527 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5528
5529 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5530
5531 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5532 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5533
553410. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5535
553611. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5537 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5538 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5539 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5540 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5541 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5542
554312. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5544 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5545 timeout.
5546
554713. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5548 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5549
555014. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5551 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5552
555315. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5554 received was valid base64.
5555
555616. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5557 name of the variable that was being set.
5558
555917. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5560
556118. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5562 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5563 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5564 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5565 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5566 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5567
556819. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5569
557020. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5571 nor realm was specified.
5572
557321. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5574 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5575 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5576 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5577
557822. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5579 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5580 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5581
558223. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5583 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5584 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5585
558624. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5587 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5588 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5589 some systems use these upper case variants.
5590
559125. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5592 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5593 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5594 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5595
559626. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5597
559827. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5599 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5600
560128. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5602 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5603 expansion variable.
5604
560529. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5606
560730. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5608 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5609 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5610 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5611
561231. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5613 using it.
5614
561532. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5616 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5617 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5618
561933. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5620 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5621
562234. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5623 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5624 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5625 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5626
562735. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5628 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5629 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5630
563136. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5632
563337. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5634 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5635 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5636 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5637 aborted.
5638
563938. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5640 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5641 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5642
564339. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5644
564540. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5646 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5647
564841. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5649 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5650
565142. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5652 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5653 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5654 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5655 when emails are that large.
5656
5657
5658
5659Exim version 4.22
5660-----------------
5661
5662 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5663 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5664
5665 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5666 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5667 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5668
5669 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5670 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5671 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5672
5673 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5674 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5675 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5676 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5677 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5678
5679 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5680 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5681 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5682 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5683 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5684 ever.
5685
5686 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5687 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5688 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5689 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5690 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5691 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5692 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5693 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5694 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5695 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5696 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5697 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5698 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5699 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5700
5701 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5702 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5703 parameterised it.
5704
5705 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5706 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5707 error should be diagnosed.
5708
5709 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5710 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5711 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5712 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5713 appeared instead of "NULL".
5714
571510. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5716 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5717 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5718 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5719 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5720 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5721 proceeds).
5722
5723 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5724 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5725 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5726
5727
5728Exim version 4.21
5729-----------------
5730
5731 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5732 or receiver verification errors.
5733
5734 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5735 name.
5736
5737 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5738 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5739 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5740 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5741
5742 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5743 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5744 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5745 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5746 shouldn't happen again.
5747
5748 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5749 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5750 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5751
5752 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5753 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5754
5755 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5756
5757 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5758 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5759
5760 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5761 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5762 RFC.
5763
576410. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5765 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5766 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5767
576811. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5769 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5770 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5771 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5772
577312. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5774 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5775 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5776 to define what should happen).
5777
577813. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5779 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5780 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5781
578214. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5783
578415. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5785
578616. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5787 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5788
578917. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5790 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5791 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5792 structure in all cases.
5793
5794 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5795 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5796 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5797 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5798
579918. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5800 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5801 domain name.
5802
580319. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5804 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5805
580620. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5807 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5808
580921. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5810 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5811 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5812
581322. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5814 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5815 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5816
581723. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5818 the book and for uniformity.
5819
582024. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5821
582225. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5823 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5824 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5825 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5826 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5827 non-existent command as the problem.
5828
582926. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5830 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5831 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5832
583327. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5834
583528. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5836 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5837 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5838
583929. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5840 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5841 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5842 timestamps using strftime().
5843
584430. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5845 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5846
584732. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5848 transport-time rewrites.
5849
585033. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5851 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5852 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5853 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5854
585534. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5856 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5857
585835. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5859 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5860 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5861 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5862 comma and a space.
5863
586436. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5865 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5866 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5867 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5868 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5869 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5870 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5871
587237. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5873 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5874 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5875 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5876 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5877
587838. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5879 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5880 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5881 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5882 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5883 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5884 remaining text gets split now.
5885
588639. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5887 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5888 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5889 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5890
589140. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5892 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5893 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5894 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5895 $return_path.
5896
589741. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5898 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5899 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5900 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5901 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5902 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5903 passed through if needed.
5904
590542. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5906 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5907 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5908 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5909 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5910 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5911
591243. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5913 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5914 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5915 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5916 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5917
591844. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5919 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5920 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5921 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5922 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5923
592445. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5925 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5926 noticed.
5927
592846. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5929 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5930 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5931 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5932 mayhem of various kinds.
5933
593447. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5935 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5936 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5937 the right test for positive values.
5938
593948. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5940 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5941 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5942 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5943 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5944 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5945 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5946 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5947 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5948 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5949 envelope.
5950
595149. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5952 module.
5953
595450. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5955 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5956 forbidding it.
5957
595851. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5959 the existing equality matching.
5960
596152. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5962 dealing with inode numbers.
5963
596453. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5965 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5966 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5967
596854. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5969 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5970 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5971 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5972 local_scan().
5973
597455. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5975 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5976 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5977 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5978 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5979 relay addresses has also been removed.
5980
598156. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5982
598357. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5984 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5985 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5986
598758. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5988 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5989 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5990 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5991 processing applies to CR:
5992
5993 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5994 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5995
5996 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5997 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5998 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5999 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6000
600159. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6002 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6003 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6004
600560. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6006 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6007 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6008 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6009 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6010 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6011 arisen.
6012
601361. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6014 program routers.
6015
601662. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6017 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6018 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6019 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6020 adds:
6021
6022 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6023
6024 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6025
6026 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6027
602863. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6029 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6030 not considered personal.
6031
603264. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6033
603465. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6035
603666. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6037
603867. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6039 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6040 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6041 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6042 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6043 header lines, and spool format errors.
6044
604568. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6046 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6047 for more flexibility.
6048
604969. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6050 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6051 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6052
605370. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6054 Sabourenkov.
6055
605671. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6057 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6058 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6059 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6060 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6061 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6062 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6063 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6064 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6065
606672. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6067 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6068 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6069 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6070 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6071 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6072 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6073
607473. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6075 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6076 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6077
607874. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6079 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6080 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6081 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6082 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6083 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6084 instead of killing the process with assert().
6085
608675. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6087 than Unicode encoding.
6088
608976. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6090 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6091 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6092 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6093
609477. Added process_log_path.
6095
609678. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6097 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6098
609979. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6100 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6101
610280. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6103 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6104 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6105
610681. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6107 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6108 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6109 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6110 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6111 were applied:
6112
6113 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6114 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6115 as invalid.
6116
611782. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6118 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6119 they will be used during message reception.
6120
6121
6122Exim version 4.20
6123-----------------
6124
6125The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6126
6127****