Disable identd (rfc1413) lookups by default
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3
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5Exim version 4.86
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7JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
8 expanded.
9
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10JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
11
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12JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
13 it.
14
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15JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
16 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostname
17 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
18 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
19
8c408560 20JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
31a4354e 21 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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22 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
23
0509be35 24JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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25 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
26 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
27 TLS connections
0509be35 28
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29JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
30 sites use this now.
31
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33Exim version 4.85
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35TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
36 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
37 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
38 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
39 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
40 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
41 the script parsing/test process like normal.
42
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43TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
44 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
45 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
46 function when detected.
47
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48JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
49 cause callback expansion.
50
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51TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
52 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
53 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
54 instead of bool when processing it.
55
0f06b4f2 56JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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57 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
58
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59JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
60
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61JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
62
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63TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
64
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65TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
66 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 67
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68JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
69 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
70 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
71 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
72 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
73 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
74
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75JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
76 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
77 exceeded it.
78
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79JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
80 version 3.3.6 or later.
81
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82JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
83 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
84 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 85 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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86 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
87 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
88 option is defined.
774ef2d7 89
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90TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
91 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
92
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93JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
94 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
95 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
96 matches.
97
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98JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
99 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
100 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
101
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102JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length parameter in the
103 incoming message.
104
105JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
106 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
107 syntax errors.
108
109JH/13 Buf 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
110
111JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
112 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
113
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115Exim version 4.84
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117TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
118 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
119 return.
1f0ebb98 120
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121JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
122 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
123
124JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
125
126TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 127 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 128
1f0ebb98 129
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132
133TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
134
135 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
136 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
137 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
138 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
139 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
140 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
141
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142TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
143 utilities have not been installed.
144
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145JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
146 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
147
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148TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
149 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
150
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151TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
152 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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153 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
154 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 155
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156JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
157
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158TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
159 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
160
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161PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
162 not dns_use_dnssec.
163
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164JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
165
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166TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
167 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
168 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
169
8ddef691 170TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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171 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
172 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
173 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
174 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 175 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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177JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
178
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179JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
180 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
181
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182JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
183 failed delivery.
184
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185JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
186
511a6c14 187JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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188
189JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
190 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 191
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192JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
193 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
194
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195TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
196
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197JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
198
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199JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
200 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
201
202 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
203 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
204 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
205
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206TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
207 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
208 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
209 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 210
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211JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
212
8c51eead 213JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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214 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
215 lookup).
8c51eead 216
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217TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
218 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
219 Schlichting.
35aba663 220
fd3b6a4a 221JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 222 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 223
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224TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
225 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
226
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227JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
228
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229TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
230 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
231 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
232
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233JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
234 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
235
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236JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
237 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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238 hosts_request_ocsp.
239
ed3bba5f 240JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 241 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 242 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 243
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244JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
245
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246TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
247 Christian Aistleitner.
248
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249JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
250
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251TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
252 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
253
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254JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
255 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
256
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257JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
258 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
259
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260TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
261 support and error reporting did not work properly.
262
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263TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
264 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
265
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266TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
267 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
268 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
269
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270JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
271
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272PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
273 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
274 Jasper Wallace.
275
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276JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
277
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278TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
279 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
280 CVE-2014-2972
281
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285
286PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
287
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288PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
289 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
290
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291PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
292 by GnuTLS.
293
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294PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
295 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
296 routines.
297
13363eba 298PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 299
66645890 300PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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301 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
302 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
303 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
304 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 305
a3fb9793 306PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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307 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
308 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
309 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 310 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 311 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 312
d27f98fe 313TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 314
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315TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
316
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317TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
318 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
319
ae0e32ee 320TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 321 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 322 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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324TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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326TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
327
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328TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
329 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
330
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331JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
332
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333JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
334
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335PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
336
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337NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
338 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 339
585121e2 340JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 341
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342PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
343 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
344 function.
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346PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
347 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
348
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349JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
350 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
351 "acl = name arg..."
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353JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
354
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355JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
356
ea722490 357JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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358 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
359
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360JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
361 Bugzilla 884.
362
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363JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
364 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
365
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366JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
367 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
368
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369PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
370 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 371 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 372
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373JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
374 authenticators.
375
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376JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
377 for control.
378
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379PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
380
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381PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
382 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
383 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
384 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
385
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386TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
387
388 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
389 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
390 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
391 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
392 the retry rules.
393
394 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
395 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
396 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
397
398 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
399 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
400 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
401 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
402
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403 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
404 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
405 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
406 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
407 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
408 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
409 delivery, as in LMTP.
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410
411 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
412 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
413
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414TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
415
416 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
417
418 Resent-From: f
419
420 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
421 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
422 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
423 username as equal to the username.
424
425 This change corrects that bug.
426
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427GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
428 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
429 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
430
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431TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
432
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433PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
434 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
435 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
436 NULL dereference and crash.
437
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438JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
439
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440PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
441 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
442 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
443
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444SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
445
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446JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
447 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
448 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
449 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
450 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
451 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
452 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
453 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
454 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
455 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
456 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
457
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458PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
459 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
460
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461PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
462 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
463 Bugzilla 880.
464
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465PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
466 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
467 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
468 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
469 an empty string is now equivalent.
470
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471PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
472 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
473 not performing validation itself.
474
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475PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
476 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
477
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478JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
479 Bugzilla 321, 823.
480
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481TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
482
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483PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
484 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
485 other false fix of the same issue.
486 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
487 Bugzilla 1363.
488
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489PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
490 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
491
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492PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
493 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
494 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
495
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496PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
497 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
498 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
499
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500TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
501
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502JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
503
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504TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
505 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
506
a30a8861
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507TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
508 Alexander Miroch.
509
33382dd9
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510TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
511 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
512 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
513 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
514 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 515
046172e6
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516TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
517 the src/util/ subdirectory.
518
581d7bee 519TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 520 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
521 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
522
523TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
524 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
525 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
526 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
527
237b2cf2
TL
528TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
529
9fc5a352
TL
530TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
531 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
532 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 533
b10e4ec2
TL
534TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
535
e2cebd74
TL
536TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
537 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
538 interaction.
539
540TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
541 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
542
2519e60d
TL
543TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
544 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
545
e78e6ecf 546
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PP
547Exim version 4.80.1
548-------------------
549
550PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
551 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 552 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 553
ea722490 554
b1770b6e 555Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
556-----------------
557
558PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
559 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
560 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
561
23c7e742
NM
562NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
563
b322aac8
NM
564NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
565 improved.
566
4a891427
NM
567NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
568
c1e794ba 569PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 570
97753960
PP
571PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
572
573PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
574 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
575
df6303fa
PP
576PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
577 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
578
7e6a8985
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579PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
580 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
581
f1e05cc7 582PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
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583 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
584 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 585
4c287009
PP
586PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
587
b98bb9ac
PP
588PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
589 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
590
4a6a987a
PP
591PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
592
c45dd180 593PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 594
7db8d074
PP
595PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
596 non-compliant senders.
597 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
598
eae0036b 599NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
600 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
601 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
602
dec5017e
PP
603PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
604 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
605 in spool file corruption.
606
c80c5570
PP
607PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
608 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
609 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
610 "Got SSL error 2".
611
076b11e2
PP
612TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
613 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
614 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
615
5407bfff
JH
616JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
617 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
618
9e45c72b
PP
619JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
620
e74376d8
PP
621PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
622 diagnostics.
623 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
624
da3ad30d
PP
625PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
626 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
627 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
628
7be682ca
PP
629PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
630 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
631 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
632 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 633
ef840681
PP
634PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
635 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
636
5bfb4cdf
PP
637PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
638 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
639 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
640 resolver implementation change.
641
c6e95d22
PP
642PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
643 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
644
9cbad13b
PP
645PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
646
9ee44efb
PP
647PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
648
6a6084f8
PP
649PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
650 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
651
12dd53c7
PP
652PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
653 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
654
9e45c72b 655JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
656 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
657
17c76198
PP
658PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
659 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
660 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
661 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 662 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 663
53947857 664PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 665
eae0036b 666PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
667 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
668 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 669
9e45c72b 670JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 671
7390e768
PP
672PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
673 read-only, out of scope).
674 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
675
08488c86
PP
676PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
677 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
678 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
679 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
680
6475bd82
PP
681PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
682
81f91683
PP
683PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
684 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
685 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
686 real issues in debug logging.
687
5779e6aa
PP
688PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
689 assignment on my part. Fixed.
690
3375e053
PP
691PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
692 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
693 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
694
695PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
696 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
697 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
698 problems.
3375e053 699
9d26b8c0
PP
700PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
701 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
702
57eb9e91 703PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
704 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
705 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
706 needs to override this, it can.
707
16880d1a
PP
708PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
709 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
710 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
711
a799883d
PP
712PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
713 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
714 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
715 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
716
3ecab157 717PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 718
0599f9cf 719
867fcbf5
PP
720Exim version 4.77
721-----------------
722
723PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
724 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
725
f1a29782
TF
726TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
727
ab42bd23
TK
728TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
729 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 730
0ca0cf52
TF
731TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
732 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
733
921b12ca
TF
734TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
735 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
736 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
737
738 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
739 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
740 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
741 not safe for signals.
742
743 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
744 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
745 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
746 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
747 exiwhat.
748
c99ce5c9
TF
749TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
750
751 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
752 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
753 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
754 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
755 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
756
757 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
758 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
759 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
760 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
761 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
762 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
763
764 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
765 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
766 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
767 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
768
769 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
770 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
771 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
772 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
773
774 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
775 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
776 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
777 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
778 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
779 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
780 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
781 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
782 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
783
784 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
785 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
786 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
787 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
788
789 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
790 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
791 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
792 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
793 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
794 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
795 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
796 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
797 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
798 details in the main documentation.
799
3634fc25
TF
800TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
801
792e8a19
TF
802TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
803
5901f0ab
TF
804TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
805 repository when doing development or release builds.
806
7f2a2a43
PP
807PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
808 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 809
061b7ebd
PP
810PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
811 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
812 Bugzilla 97.
813
e12f8c32
PP
814PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
815
9e949f00 816PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
817 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
818
819PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
820 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 821
555ae6af 822PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
823 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
824
825PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
826 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 827
6f7fe114
PP
828PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
829 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
830
c566dd90
PP
831PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
832 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
833 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
834 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 835
d6cc7c78 836PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
837 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
838 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
839
0d0e4455
PP
840PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
841
3399bb60 842PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
843
844PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
845 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
846
0ca0cf52 847
10906672
PP
848Exim version 4.76
849-----------------
850
851PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
852
754a0503
PP
853PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
854 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
855
c0c7b2da
PP
856PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
857
e97d1f08
PP
858PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
859
084c1d8c
PP
860PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
861 Bugzilla 1098.
862
4e7ee012
PP
863PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
864 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 865
c8d52a00
PP
866TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
867 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
868
54e7ce4a
PP
869PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
870 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
871
5ee6f336
PP
872PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
873 Bugzilla 1104.
874
c8d52a00 875TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
876 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
877
878TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
879 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
880 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
881 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
882
883PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
884 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 885
10906672 886
aa097c4c
NM
887Exim version 4.75
888-----------------
889
4c9ef03a 890NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
891 Bugzilla 1073
892
7f3d9eff
TF
893TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
894 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
895 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
896
159f52d2
TF
897TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
898 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
899
0cc9542a
PP
900PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
901 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
902 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
903
f7274286
PP
904PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
905 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
906
7b797365
PP
907PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
908 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
909
caacae52
NM
910NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
911 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
912
09dcaba9
NM
913NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
914 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
915
bc19a55b
PP
916PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
917 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 918
bd4c9759
NM
919NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
920 Fixes bug 943.
921
b72aab72
PP
922PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
923 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
924
2fe76745
PP
925PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
926 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
927
76aa570c
PP
928PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
929 SQL string expansion failure details.
930 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
931
f1e5fef5
PP
932PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
933 Patch from Simon Arlott.
934
4d805ee9
PP
935PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
936 extern declarations in function scope.
937 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
938
cd59ab18
PP
939PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
940 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
941 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
942 a kernel bug).
943
332f5cf3
PP
944PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
945 Patch from Mark Zealey.
946
29cfeb94
PP
947PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
948 Patch from Mark Zealey.
949
660242ad
PP
950PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
951 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
952
bc4bc4c5
PP
953PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
954 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
955
2e64baa9
NM
956NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
957 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
958 Dennis Davis.
959
bddd7526
PP
960PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
961
6bac1a9a
PP
962PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
963
552193f0
NM
964NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
965 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 966
1b587e48
TF
967TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
968 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
969
aa097c4c 970
8c07b69f
TF
971Exim version 4.74
972-----------------
973
974TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
975 consequences so log it to the panic log.
976
c0ea85ab
TF
977TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
978 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
979
0761d44e
TF
980TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
981
0a349494
PP
982DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
983 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
984 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
985
986PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
987 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
988 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
989
fea24b2e
PP
990PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
991 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
992 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
993 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
994
6545de78
PP
995PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
996 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
997 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
998 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
999
1670ef10
PP
1000PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1001 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1002 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1003 arbitrary files.
1004
c0886197
PP
1005PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1006 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1007
b7487bce
PP
1008PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1009 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1010 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1011 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1012 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1013
8c07b69f 1014
97fd1e48 1015Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1016-----------------
97fd1e48
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1017
1018PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1019 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1020 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1021
6901c596
PP
1022PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1023 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1024
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1025JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1026
77bb000f
PP
1027PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1028
a29e5231
PP
1029PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1030
ec5a0394 1031PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1032
55c75993
PP
1033PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1034
453a6645 1035PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1036 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1037 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1038 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1039
8544e77a
PP
1040PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1041 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1042 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1043 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1044 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1045
83e029d5
PP
1046PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1047
ed7f7860
PP
1048PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1049
7d9f747b
PP
1050PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1051
4b2241d2
PP
1052PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1053
10385c15
PP
1054PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1055
dbc4b90d
PP
1056PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1057
532be449
PP
1058PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1059
6a8de854 1060PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1061 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1062 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1063
5dc43717
JJ
1064JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1065
1066JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1067 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1068
3346ab01
PP
1069PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1070 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1071
491fab4c
PP
1072PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1073 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1074 Notification from John Horne.
1075
13eb9497
PP
1076PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1077 compatible.
1078
1079PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1080 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1081 it normally works.
1082
7f36d675
DW
1083DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1084 access.
1085
c1d94452
DW
1086DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1087 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1088 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1089
e2f5dc15
DW
1090DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1091 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1092 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1093 configuration file.
1094
cd25e41d
DW
1095DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1096 option (effectively making it always true).
1097
261dc43e
DW
1098DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1099 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1100
fa32850b
DW
1101DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1102 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1103
79d4bc3d
PP
1104PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1105 run-time user, instead of root.
1106
43236f35 1107PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1108 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1109
fb08281f
DW
1110DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1111 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1112 arguments.
3346ab01 1113
74935b98
DW
1114DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1115 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1116 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1117
90b6341f
DW
1118DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1119
57730b52
ML
1120NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1121
66581d1e 1122
465e92cf
JJ
1123Exim version 4.72
1124-----------------
1125
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PP
1126JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1127 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1128 typos
465e92cf 1129
453a6645
PP
1130JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1131 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1132 (Finput)
edae0343 1133
9bd3e22c
NM
1134NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1135 Patch from Alain Williams
1136
bb576ff7
NM
1137NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1138
5a1a5845
NM
1139NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1140 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1141
981a9fad
NM
1142NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1143 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1144
7fc497ee
NM
1145NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1146
1a41defa
JJ
1147JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1148
a466095c 1149NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1150 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1151
94a6bd0b
NM
1152TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1153
1154TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1155
1156MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1157 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1158 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1159
c1b141a8
NM
1160NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1161 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1162
b26eacf1 1163NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1164 Patch by Simon Arlott
1165
179c5980 1166PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1167 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1168
9bd3e22c 1169
7c6d71af
NM
1170Exim version 4.71
1171-----------------
1172
7d9f747b 1173TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1174
f013fb92
NM
1175NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1176
0eb8eedd
NM
1177NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1178
663ee6d9
NM
1179NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1180
177ebd9b
NM
1181NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1182
7c6d71af 1183
210f147e
NM
1184Exim version 4.70
1185-----------------
1186
cdd3bb85 1187TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1188 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1189
1190TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1191 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1192 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1193
1194TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1195 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1196 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1197
1198TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1199 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1200
210f147e
NM
1201NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1202 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1203 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1204 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1205
deafd5b3
NM
1206NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1207 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1208 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1209
089793a4
TF
1210TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1211
5f16ca82
TF
1212TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1213
dae9d94e 1214NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1215 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1216
7d9f747b 1217NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1218
06864c44
TF
1219TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1220 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1221 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1222 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1223
65a7d8c3 1224NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1225 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1226
23510047 1227TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1228
7d9f747b 1229NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1230
7d8eec3a 1231NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1232 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1233
89dec7b6
TF
1234TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1235 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1236
a99de90c
TF
1237TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1238 that they are available at delivery time.
1239
e2803e40
TF
1240TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1241
7199e1ee
TF
1242TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1243 incoming_port log selectors.
1244
e276e04b
TF
1245TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1246 setting expands to an empty string.
1247
ce552449 1248NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1249 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1250
e765a0f1 1251NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1252 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1253
4f054c63 1254NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1255 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1256
7d9f747b
PP
1257NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1258 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1259
7d9f747b
PP
1260NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1261 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1262
b52bc06e 1263NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1264 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1265
447de4b0
NM
1266NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1267
4c69d561 1268NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1269 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1270
d5c39246 1271NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1272 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1273
0b23848a
TK
1274TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1275
8f3414a1 1276NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1277 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1278
fb6f955d
NM
1279NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1280
1281NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1282
7d9f747b
PP
1283NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1284 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1285
7d9f747b
PP
1286NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1287 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1288
7d9f747b
PP
1289NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1290 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1291
7d9f747b
PP
1292NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1293 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1294
7d9f747b
PP
1295NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1296 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1297
7d9f747b
PP
1298NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1299 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1300
7d9f747b
PP
1301NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1302 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1303
7d9f747b 1304NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1305 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1306
7d9f747b 1307NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1308
7d9f747b
PP
1309NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1310 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1311
7d9f747b 1312NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1313
7d9f747b 1314NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1315
7d9f747b 1316NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1317
7d9f747b 1318NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1319
17792b53 1320NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1321 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1322
7d9f747b
PP
1323NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1324 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1325
91576cec 1326NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1327 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1328
7d9f747b
PP
1329NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1330 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1331
7d9f747b 1332NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1333
7d9f747b 1334NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1335
7d9f747b 1336NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1337
7d9f747b 1338NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1339
deafd5b3 1340
47db1125
NM
1341Exim version 4.69
1342-----------------
1343
4b3504d0
TK
1344TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1345 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1346 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1347
1348 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1349 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1350 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1351 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1352 build errors in sieve.c.
1353
81ea09ca
NM
1354NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1355 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1356 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1357
f13cddcb
SC
1358SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1359
7d9f747b 1360NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1361
7d9f747b 1362NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1363
7d9f747b 1364NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1365
1366
eb4c0de6
PH
1367Exim version 4.68
1368-----------------
1369
1370PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1371
6a3bceb1
PH
1372PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1373 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1374 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1375 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1376 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1377 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1378 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1379 for iplsearch lookups.
1380
1381 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1382 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1383 previously such lookups could never work.
1384
1385 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1386 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1387 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1388
2e30fa9d
TK
1389TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1390 version.
1391
0806a9c5
MH
1392MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1393 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1394 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1395 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1396 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1397 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1398
ae276964
TK
1399TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1400 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1401
0f2cbd1b
MH
1402MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1403 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1404 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1405 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1406 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1407 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1408
2b85bce7
PH
1409PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1410 local_scan API.
1411
93655c46
PH
1412PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1413
6c512171
PH
1414PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1415 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1416 encrypted.
1417
1418PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1419 by clients under certain conditions.
1420
aa6dc513
PH
1421PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1422 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1423
a96603a0
PH
1424PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1425
8f240103
PH
1426PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1427 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1428
1429PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1430
d677b2f2
PH
1431PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1432
d52120f2
PH
1433PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1434
64f2600a
PH
1435PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1436 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1437
8669f003
PH
1438PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1439
a4dc33a8
PH
1440PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1441 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1442
d6a60c0f
PH
1443PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1444
8f128379
PH
1445PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1446
8932dffe
PH
1447PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1448 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1449 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1450 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1451
ddea74fa 1452PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1453 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1454 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1455
ddea74fa 1456PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1457 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1458
ddea74fa
PH
1459PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1460
ce9f225c
PH
1461PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1462
19897d52
PH
1463PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1464
bc64a74d
PH
1465PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1466 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1467 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1468
eb4c0de6 1469
b4ed4da0
PH
1470Exim version 4.67
1471-----------------
1472
22ad45c9
MH
1473MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1474 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1475 Jan Srzednicki.
1476
b4ed4da0
PH
1477PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1478 issue a MAIL command.
1479
431b7361
PH
1480PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1481
1482 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1483
1484 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1485 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1486 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1487 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1488 item. This has been fixed.
1489
1490PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1491 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1492
83da1223
PH
1493PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1494 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1495
54fc8428
PH
1496PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1497 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1498 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1499
34c5e8dd
SC
1500SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1501
bbe15da8
PH
1502PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1503 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1504 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1505 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1506 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1507
0e8a9471
MH
1508MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1509 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1510 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1511
f0872424
PH
1512PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1513 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1514 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1515 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1516
b01dd148
PH
1517PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1518
6bf342e1
PH
1519PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1520
273f34d0
PH
1521PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1522 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1523 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1524 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1525 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1526
cf8b11a5
PH
1527PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1528
41c7c167
PH
1529PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1530 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1531 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1532 values).
1533
9c57cbc0
PH
1534PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1535
f3f065bb
PH
1536PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1537
047bdd8c
PH
1538PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1539
0ce9abe6
PH
1540PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1541
0e22dfd1
PH
1542PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1543
4c590bd1
PH
1544PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1545 no_callout_flush is set.
1546
09945f1e
PH
1547PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1548 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1549 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1550 fixed.
1551
c51b8e75
PH
1552PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1553
e28326d8
PH
1554PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1555 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1556 other ACL rejections are.
1557
75b1493f
PH
1558PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1559 with slight modification.
1560
7c5214ec
PH
1561PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1562 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1563
4311097e
PH
1564PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1565 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1566 connection.
1567
29f89cad
PH
1568PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1569 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1570
5e687460
SC
1571SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1572
c3611384
PH
1573PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1574 expansion side effects.
1575
5a11a7b4
PH
1576PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1577 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1578 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1579 be the same.
1580
0e20aff9
MH
1581MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1582 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1583 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1584
ca86f471
PH
1585PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1586 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1587 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1588 were accidentally chopped off.
1589
a14e5636
PH
1590PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1591 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1592 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1593 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1594 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1595 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1596 pipelining has not been advertised.
1597
ec95d1a6
PH
1598PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1599
42855d71
PH
1600PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1601 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1602 This has been fixed.
1603
57c2c631
PH
1604PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1605 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1606 reported on Solaris.
1607
58c01c94
PH
1608PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1609 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1610 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1611 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1612 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1613 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1614 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1615
dee5a20a
PH
1616PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1617 cpus.
1618
d2ee6114
PH
1619PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1620
b2d5182b
PH
1621PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1622
79749a79
PH
1623PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1624 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1625 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1626 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1627 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1628 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1629
c456d9bb
PH
1630PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1631 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1632 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1633 host_all_ignored option.
1634
cd9868ec
PH
1635PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1636 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1637 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1638 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1639 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1640 is what is supposed to happen).
1641
ebeaf996
PH
1642PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1643 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1644 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1645 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1646 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1647 uses the Exim user.
1648
2679d413
PH
1649PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1650 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1651 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1652 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1653 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1654 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1655 users.
1656
84024b72
PH
1657PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1658
8005d38e
SC
1659SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1660 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1661 (Jez Hancock).
1662 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1663 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1664
3298c6c6
SC
1665SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1666
a43a27c5
PH
1667PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1668
58eb016e 1669PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1670 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1671 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1672 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1673 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1674 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1675 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1676 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1677 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1678 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1679 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1680
b43a74ea
PH
1681PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1682 advertised in response to EHLO.
1683
b4ed4da0 1684
5dd1517f
PH
1685Exim version 4.66
1686-----------------
1687
1688PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1689 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1690
1691 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1692 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1693
1694 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1695 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1696 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1697
1698 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1699 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1700 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1701 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1702 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1703
1704
93cfa765
TK
1705Exim version 4.65
1706-----------------
1707
1708TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1709 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1710 versions. (#438)
1711
d6066548
MH
1712MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1713 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1714 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1715
4362ff0d
PH
1716PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1717 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1718 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1719 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1720 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1721 rather than extend the field.
1722
93cfa765 1723
944e9e9c
TF
1724Exim version 4.64
1725-----------------
aa41d2de 1726
21d74bd9
TK
1727TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1728 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1729 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1730 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1731 these files.
1732
1733TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1734 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1735 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1736
1737TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1738 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1739 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1740
1741TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1742 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1743 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1744 in the field name.
1745
2b1c6e3a
PH
1746PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1747 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1748 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1749 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1750 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1751 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1752 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1753 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1754 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1755 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1756 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1757
1f872c80
PH
1758PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1759 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1760
1761PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1762 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1763 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1764 ignores EPIPE as well.
1765
d203e649
PH
1766PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1767 (quoted-printable decoding).
1768
cc2ed8f7 1769PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1770 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1771
ddfcd446
PH
1772PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1773
d45b1de8
PH
1774PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1775
1776PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1777
38a0a95f 1778PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1779 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1780
a2405d83
JJ
1781JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1782 in 4.64-PH/09.
1783
1784JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1785 miscellaneous code fixes
1786
6ea85e9a
PH
1787PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1788 rejections.
1789
26da7e20
PH
1790PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1791 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1792 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1793 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1794 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1795 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1796 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1797 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1798
14aa5a05 1799PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1800 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1801 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1802 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1803 function.
1804 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1805 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1806 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1807 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1808 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1809 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1810 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1811 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1812 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1813
ff75a1f7
PH
1814PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1815 decoding.
1816
e6f6568e
PH
1817PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1818 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1819 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1820 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1821 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1822 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1823 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1824 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1825
d6f6e0dc
PH
1826PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1827 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1828 list.
1829
322050c2
PH
1830PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1831 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1832 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1833 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1834 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1835 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1836 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1837 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1838 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1839 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1840 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1841 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1842 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1843
08955dd3
PH
1844PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1845 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1846 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1847 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1848 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1849 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1850 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1851
1eccaa59
PH
1852PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1853 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1854 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1855 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1856 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1857 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1858 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1859 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1860 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1861 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1862
602e59e5
PH
1863PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1864 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1865 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1866 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1867 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1868
411ef850
PH
1869PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1870 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1871 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1872 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1873 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1874 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1875 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1876
7befa435
PH
1877PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1878 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1879 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1880 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1881 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1882 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1883 been verified.
1884
48da4259 1885PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1886 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1887 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1888 and authorization.)
1889
48da4259
PH
1890PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1891 if any retry times were supplied.
1892
d1d5595c
PH
1893PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1894 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1895 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1896
0ef732d9
PH
1897PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1898
328895cc
PH
1899PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1900
fd700877
PH
1901PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1902 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1903 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1904 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1905 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1906 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1907
8dce1a6f
PH
1908PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1909 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1910
17af4a17
PH
1911PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1912 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1913 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1914
1915PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1916 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1917 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1918 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1919 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1920 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1921 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1922 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1923 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1924
1925 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1926 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1927 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1928 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1929 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1930 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1931 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1932 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1933 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1934
1935 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1936 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1937 hammering the server.
1938
c1114884
PH
1939PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1940 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1941
7a0743eb
PH
1942PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1943
0d85fa3f
PH
1944PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1945 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1946 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1947
1bf43b78
PH
1948PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1949 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1950 one case where this was not true.
1951
520de300
PH
1952PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1953 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1954 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1955 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1956 fails.
1957
48c7f9e2
PH
1958PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1959 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1960 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1961 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1962 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1963 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1964 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1965 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1966 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1967 smtp transport.
1968
99ea1c86
PH
1969PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1970 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1971 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1972 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1973
a2042e78
PH
1974PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1975 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1976
4fbcfc2e
PH
1977PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1978 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1979 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1980
aa41d2de
PH
1981PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1982
af561417
PH
1983PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1984
3cc66b45
PH
1985PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1986
194cc0e4
PH
1987PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1988 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1989 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1990 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1991
a401ddaa
PH
1992PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1993 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1994
4e88a19f
PH
1995PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1996 be meaningful with "accept".
1997
d7d7b289
SC
1998SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1999 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2000
2001SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2002 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2003 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2004
2005SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2006 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2007 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2008 there is data to show.
2009 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2010
2011SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2012 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2013 as well as the number of messages.
2014
2015SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2016 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2017 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2018
2019SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2020 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2021 have a flag are now skipped.
2022
2023SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2024 Added the -emptyok flag.
2025
2026SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2027 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2028
0ea2a468
JJ
2029JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2030 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2031 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2032
2033JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2034 match 4.64-PH/13
2035
2036JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2037 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2038
2039JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2040
2041JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2042 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2043
8a10f5a4
PH
2044PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2045
30e18802
PH
2046PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2047 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2048 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2049 contravention of the specifications.
2050
55728a4f
PH
2051PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2052 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2053 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2054
d7837193
PH
2055PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2056 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2057 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2058
87054a31
PH
2059PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2060
ea2c01d2
MH
2061MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2062 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2063 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2064 some point in the past.
2065
e4fa6968
PH
2066PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2067 transport during callout processing was broken.
2068
56f5d9bd
PH
2069PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2070 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2071
922e1c28
PH
2072PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2073 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2074
21eb6e72
PH
2075PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2076 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2077
a0540757
PH
2078PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2079
944e9e9c 2080
478be7b0
SC
2081Exim version 4.63
2082-----------------
2083
2084SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2085 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2086
2087SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2088 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2089 there is data to show.
2090 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2091
2092SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2093 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2094
2b965a65
TF
2095TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2096 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2097
45b91596
PH
2098TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2099 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2100
c59f5781
TF
2101TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2102 submissions from trusted users.
2103
90fc3069
TF
2104TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2105 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2106
6083aca0
TF
2107TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2108 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2109 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2110 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2111 there is now a framework to start from.
2112
765b530f
PH
2113PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2114 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2115 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2116
4e167a8c
PH
2117PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2118
4608d683
PH
2119PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2120
b8dc3e4a
PH
2121PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2122
5418e93b
PH
2123PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2124 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2125 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2126
b4a9bda2
PH
2127PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2128 libradius.
2129
45b91596
PH
2130PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2131 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2132 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2133
5547e2c5
PH
2134PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2135 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2136 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2137 its arguments.
2138
dbcef0ea
PH
2139PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2140 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2141 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2142 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2143 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2144
25257489
PH
2145PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2146 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2147
c816d124
PH
2148PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2149
a9ccd69a
PH
2150PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2151 operations in malware.c.
2152
75fa1910
PH
2153PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2154 signatures.
2155
a7d7aa58
PH
2156PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2157 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2158 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2159 all.
2160
42119b09
PH
2161PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2162 statements to "add_header".
2163
41609df5
PH
2164PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2165 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2166
a5bd321b
PH
2167PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2168 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2169 latter.
2170
e85a7ad5 2171PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2172 so that it is now:
2173
e85a7ad5
PH
2174 ${if or { \
2175 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2176 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2177 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2178 }{no}{yes}}
2179
e85a7ad5
PH
2180 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2181 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2182
d8fe1c03
PH
2183PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2184 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2185
16282d2b
PH
2186PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2187 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2188 any possible encoding problems.
2189
35d40a98
PH
2190PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2191 but not after initializing Perl.
2192
034d99ab
PH
2193PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2194 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2195 apparently, which is not desirable.
2196
6ec97b1b
PH
2197PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2198 queries.
2199
e22ca4ac
JJ
2200JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2201 --not options
2202
2203JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2204
33d73e3b
PH
2205PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2206 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2207 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2208 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2209
9ecb03f3
PH
2210PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2211 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2212 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2213
084efe8d
PH
2214PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2215 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2216 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2217 0.12.
2218
366fc9f0
PH
2219PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2220 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2221 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2222 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2223 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2224
c59f5781 2225
c887c79e
TF
2226Exim version 4.62
2227-----------------
2228
2229TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2230 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2231
1cce3af8
PH
2232PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2233 patch).
2234
afb3eaaf
PH
2235PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2236 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2237 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2238 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2239 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2240 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2241 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2242 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2243 451 error is used.
2244
e173618b
PH
2245PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2246
dd16e114
PH
2247PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2248 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2249 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2250
f7fd3850
PH
2251PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2252 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2253 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2254 odd errors.
2255
d87df92c
PH
2256PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2257 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2258
7e9f683d
PH
2259PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2260 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2261 option (which defaults to 0600).
2262
bfad5236
PH
2263PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2264
01c490df
PH
2265PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2266 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2267 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2268 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2269 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2270 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2271 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2272
d6629cdc
PH
2273PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2274
1cce3af8 2275
214e2000
PH
2276Exim version 4.61
2277-----------------
2278
2279PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2280 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2281 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2282 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2283 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2284 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2285 addresses as local.
2286
f9daeae0
PH
2287PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2288 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2289
7e66e54d
PH
2290PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2291
c8ea1597
PH
2292PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2293 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2294 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2295 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2296 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2297 grumble.
2298
911f6fde
PH
2299PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2300 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2301
47ca6d6c
PH
2302PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2303 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2304 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2305 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2306 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2307
ed0e9820
PH
2308PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2309 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2310 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2311 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2312
eff37e47
PH
2313PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2314 be the same on different OS.
2315
1921d2ea
PH
2316PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2317 testing.
2318
b3f69ca8
JJ
2319JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2320 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2321
2322JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2323 in 4.61-PH/06
2324
424a1c63
PH
2325PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2326 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2327 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2328 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2329 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2330 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2331 bounce message.
2332
7a100415
PH
2333PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2334 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2335 when Exim was called.
2336
19b9dc85
PH
2337PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2338 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2339
309bd837
PH
2340PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2341 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2342 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2343 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2344
59e82a2a
PH
2345PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2346 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2347 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2348 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2349 changes:
2350
2351 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2352 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2353 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2354
2355 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2356 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2357 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2358
9edc04ce
PH
2359PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2360 feature).
2361
1349e1e5
PH
2362PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2363 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2364 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2365 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2366 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2367 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2368 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2369 values from the SRV records were lost.
2370
ea49d0e1
PH
2371PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2372 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2373 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2374
064a94c9
PH
2375PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2376 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2377 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2378
727071f8
PH
2379PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2380 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2381 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2382 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2383 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2384 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2385 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2386 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2387 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2388 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2389
f78eb7c6
PH
2390PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2391 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2392 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2393
21c28500
PH
2394PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2395 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2396
2397PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2398 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2399 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2400 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2401 is given.
2402
1688f43b
PH
2403PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2404 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2405 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2406
2407PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2408 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2409 PH/23 above applies.
2410
9675b384
PH
2411PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2412 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2413 (for which there is an explicit test).
2414
6a3f1455
PH
2415PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2416
dac79d3e
PH
2417PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2418 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2419 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2420 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2421 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2422
5977a0b3
PH
2423PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2424 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2425 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2426 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2427
c91535f3
PH
2428PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2429 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2430 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2431
0d46a8c8
PH
2432PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2433
278c6e6c
PH
2434PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2435
2cbb4081
PH
2436PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2437 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2438 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2439
3eef829e
PH
2440PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2441 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2442 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2443 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2444 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2445
1ab95fa6
PH
2446PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2447 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2448 the message gets confusing).
2449
230205fc
PH
2450PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2451 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2452 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2453 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2454
75e0e026
PH
2455PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2456 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2457 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2458 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2459 same order.
2460
2461PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2462 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2463 the different processes.
2464
145396a6
PH
2465PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2466
3cd34f13
PH
2467PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2468
11121d3d
JJ
2469JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2470 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2471
2472JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2473 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2474
2475JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2476 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2477 messages matching specified criteria.
2478
8def5aaf
PH
2479PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2480
929ba01c
PH
2481PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2482 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2483
2632889e
PH
2484PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2485 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2486 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2487 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2488 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2489 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2490 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2491 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2492 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2493 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2494
944a9c55
PH
2495PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2496 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2497 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2498
4a23603b
PH
2499PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2500
4730f942
PH
2501PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2502 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2503 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2504 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2505 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2506 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2507 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2508 the variable.
2509
30dba1e6
PH
2510PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2511 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2512
382afc6b
PH
2513PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2514
a86229cf
PH
2515PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2516
50c99ba6
PH
2517PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2518
d35e429d
PH
2519PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2520 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2521 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2522 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2523 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2524 size of the count of files.
2525
f90d018c
PH
2526PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2527
75def545
PH
2528PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2529 used in LMTP mode:
2530
2531 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2532 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2533 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2534 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2535
2536 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2537 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2538 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2539
2540PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2541 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2542 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2543 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2544 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2545
c46782ef
PH
2546PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2547 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2548
71fafd95
PH
2549PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2550 will now be deprecated.
2551
2c5db4fd
PH
2552PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2553
9cf6b11a
JJ
2554JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2555 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2556 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2557
2558JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2559 with very large, slow to parse queues
2560
2561JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2562
2563JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2564
898d150f
PH
2565PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2566 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2567 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2568 SMTP output lines.
2569
46218253
PH
2570PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2571 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2572 Sieve code now uses this.
2573
e97957bc
PH
2574PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2575 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2576
81e509d7
PH
2577PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2578 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2579
3d240ff7
PH
2580PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2581
b37c4101
PH
2582PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2583 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2584 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2585 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2586 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2587
79378e0f
PH
2588PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2589 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2590 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2591 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2592
e49c7bb4
PH
2593PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2594
d114ec46
PH
2595PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2596
f3d7df6c
PH
2597PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2598 is preferred over IPv4.
2599
715ab376
PH
2600PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2601 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2602 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2603 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2604 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2605 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2606 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2607
6b31b150
PH
2608PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2609 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2610 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2611
2612PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2613
d515a917
PH
2614PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2615 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2616 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2617 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2618 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2619 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2620 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2621 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2622 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2623 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2624 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2625
9b8fadde
PH
2626PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2627 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2628 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2629
214e2000 2630
5de37277
PH
2631Exim version 4.60
2632-----------------
2633
cc38ddbf
PH
2634PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2635
2636 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2637 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2638
2639 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2640 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2641 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2642
72fdd6ae
PH
2643PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2644
2645 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2646 not a single digit.
2647
2648 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2649 string.
2650
2651 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2652 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2653 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2654 silly things.
2655
2656 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2657 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2658
2659 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2660 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2661
cb741023
PH
2662PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2663 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2664 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2665
f174f16e
PH
2666PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2667 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2668
c25242d7
PH
2669PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2670 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2671
2672 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2673
2674 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2675 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2676 this:
2677
2678 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2679
82c19f95
PH
2680PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2681 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2682 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2683 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2684 identical. For example:
2685
2686 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2687
2688 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2689 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2690 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2691
d7ffbc12
PH
2692PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2693 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2694 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2695 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2696
9f526266
PH
2697PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2698 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2699 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2700 message.
2701
87fcc8b9
PH
2702PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2703
2704 o fixes some comments
2705 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2706 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2707 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2708 and documents the missing references header update
2709
2710 and most important:
2711
2712 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2713 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2714 result)
2715
456682f5
PH
2716PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2717 Electronic Mail") by including:
2718
2719 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2720
2721 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2722 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2723 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2724 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2725 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2726
2727 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2728
2729 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2730
2731 The auto-replied keyword:
2732
2733 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2734 message by an automatic process,
2735
2736 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2737
2738 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2739 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2740
2741 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2742 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2743 other messages.
2744
3e46c1aa
PH
2745PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2746 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2747
49826d12
PH
2748PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2749
eba0c039
PH
2750PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2751 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2752 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2753
a0d6ba8a
PH
2754PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2755 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2756 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2757
f0917727
PH
2758PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2759 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2760 and treats the condition as false.
2761
096fee00
PH
2762PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2763
024bd3c2
PH
2764PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2765 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2766 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2767 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2768 not changing the active code.
2769
2770 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2771 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2772
2773 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2774 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2775
df199fec
PH
2776PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2777 (Bugzilla #53).
2778
d27f1df3
PH
2779PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2780 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2781 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2782 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2783 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2784 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2785 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2786 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2787 the text comparison.
2788
96776534
PH
2789PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2790 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2791 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2792 The same fix has been applied.
2793
5de37277 2794
9a799bc0
PH
2795Exim version 4.54
2796-----------------
2797
2798PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2799 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2800 It now does.
2801
99a4b039
PH
2802PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2803 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2804
2805PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2806
4b233853
PH
2807PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2808 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2809 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2810 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2811 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2812
8857ccfd
PH
2813TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2814 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2815 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2816 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2817 or /domain=).
2818
433a2980
PH
2819PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2820 testing suite.
2821
3e46c1aa 2822
9a799bc0 2823
e3a311ba
TK
2824Exim version 4.53
2825-----------------
2826
2827TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2828 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2829
13b685f9
PH
2830PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2831
395ff96d
PH
2832PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2833
5b68f6e4
PH
2834PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2835 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2836 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2837
1ab52c69
PH
2838PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2839 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2840 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2841
b07e6aa3
PH
2842PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2843 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2844 operating systems.
2845
254e032f
PH
2846PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2847 ${stat: expansion item.
2848
3af76a81
PH
2849PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2850 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2851
2548ba04
PH
2852PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2853 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2854 file for comments.
2855
b6c6011d
PH
2856PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2857
cf39cf57
PH
2858PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2859 setting.
2860
f1513293
PH
2861PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2862 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2863
727549a4
PH
2864TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2865
af46795e
PH
2866PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2867 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2868 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2869 the end of the subprocess.
2870
d7b47fd0
PH
2871PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2872 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2873 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2874 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2875 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2876
ee744174
JJ
2877JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2878
b582ab87
PH
2879TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2880
41a13e0a
PH
2881PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2882 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2883
f625cc5a
PH
2884PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2885
2886PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2887
21f7af35
PH
2888PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2889 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2890 HP-UX compiler.
2891
31480e42
PH
2892PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2893
2d280592
PH
2894PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2895 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2896 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2897
7cd1141b
PH
2898PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2899 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2900
2901PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2902 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2903
750af86e
PH
2904PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2905 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2906
2907 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2908 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2909
2910 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2911 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2912 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2913 contributed by a Radius user.
2914
2915PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2916 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2917
4304270b
TK
2918TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2919 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2920
750af86e
PH
2921PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2922 available.
2923
64ffc24f
PH
2924PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2925 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2926 received.
2927
5dd9625b
PH
2928PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2929 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2930 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2931 header lines when this was not necessary.
2932
5591031b
PH
2933PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2934
ba18e66a
PH
2935PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2936 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2937 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2938 exists".
2939
9cec981f
PH
2940PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2941 -bV or -d is used.
2942
aa2b5c79
PH
2943PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2944 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2945 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2946 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2947
48a53b7f
PH
2948PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2949
1c59d63b
PH
2950PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2951
671012da
TK
2952TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2953
1509d3a8
PH
2954PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2955
2956PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2957 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2958 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2959 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2960 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2961 settings.
2962
2963PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2964
2fe1a124
PH
2965PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2966 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2967 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2968 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2969 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2970 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2971 which is clearly wrong.
2972
8800895a
PH
2973PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2974
ccfdb010
PH
2975PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2976 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2977 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2978 subsequently added.
2979
1130bfb0
PH
2980PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2981 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2982
ebcb507f
PH
2983PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2984
c35e155c
PH
2985PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2986 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2987
95d1f782
PH
2988PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2989 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2990
fd6de02e
PH
2991PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2992 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2993
58de37c5
PH
2994PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2995 recipients, not senders.
2996
261cf466
TF
2997TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2998 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2999
3ee512ff
PH
3000PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3001
e08c430f
PH
3002PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3003
bef5a11f
PH
3004PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3005 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3006 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3007 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3008
7546de58
TF
3009TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3010
e5d5a95f
TF
3011TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3012 clock is set back in time.
3013
2e88a017
TF
3014TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3015 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3016
a5f65aa4
TF
3017TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3018 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3019
e7726cbf
PH
3020PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3021 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3022 (see PH/47 above).
3023
a7fdad5b
TF
3024TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3025 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3026 header rewrites.
3027
6af56900
PH
3028PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3029 type ("H").
3030
0925ede6
PH
3031PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3032
66afa403
TF
3033TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3034 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3035 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3036
0154e85a
TF
3037TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3038 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3039 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3040 helo verification defer as a failure.
3041
16f12c76
PH
3042PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3043 actual error message.
3044
bbe902f0 3045
e5a9dba6
PH
3046Exim version 4.52
3047-----------------
3048
3049TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3050
22c3b60b
PH
3051PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3052 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3053 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3054 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3055
06a9b4b5
PH
3056TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3057
c1ac6996
PH
3058PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3059 can still be requested.
3060
9c7a242c
PH
3061PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3062 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3063 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3064 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3065
87ba3f5f
PH
3066TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3067 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3068 circumstances, but probably never did.
3069
3070PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3071 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3072 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3073 in the header line.
3074
29aba418
TF
3075TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3076
fe0dab11
TF
3077TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3078 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3079
11d337a4
TK
3080TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3081
3082TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3083
415c8f3b
PH
3084PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3085 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3086 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3087 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3088 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3089 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3090
958541e9
PH
3091PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3092 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3093 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3094 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3095 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3096 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3097
c206415f
TK
3098TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3099 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3100
2a4be8f9
PH
3101PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3102 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3103
1cba11c5
SC
3104SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3105 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3106
3107SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3108
3109SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3110
3111SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3112
3113SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3114
3115SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3116
3117SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3118
1005d00e
TK
3119TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3120
3121TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3122 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3123 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3124
3125TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3126 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3127 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3128 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3129
9b4768fa
PH
3130PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3131 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3132 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3133
3134PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3135 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3136 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3137 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3138
0d7eb84a
PH
3139PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3140 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3141 to be made).
3142
3143PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3144 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3145 should work with maildirs and everything.
3146
40727bee
TK
3147TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3148 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3149
554d2369
TF
3150TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3151 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3152
1f922db1
PH
3153PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3154 function for BDB 4.3.
3155
ef213c3b
PH
3156PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3157
8ac170f3
PH
3158PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3159 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3160 involved.
3161
b1c749bb
PH
3162PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3163 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3164 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3165 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3166 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3167 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3168
4aac9b49
PH
3169PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3170 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3171 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3172 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3173 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3174 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3175 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3176 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3177
294520c8
TK
3178TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3179 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3180 details.
3181
5bd022fe
PH
3182PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3183 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3184
90e9ce59
PH
3185PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3186 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3187 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3188 test. It is now used for both.
3189
5ea81592
PH
3190PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3191 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3192 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3193 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3194 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3195 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3196
c6c2dc1d
PH
3197PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3198 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3199 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3200 string_vformat().
3201
fffffe4c
PH
3202PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3203 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3204 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3205
9a26b6b2
PH
3206PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3207 experimental DomainKeys support:
3208
3209 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3210 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3211 the control was given.
3212
3213 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3214
4aee0225
PH
3215PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3216
32d668a5
PH
3217PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3218
8187c3f3
PH
3219PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3220 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3221 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3222 db.h files).
3223
ff790e47 3224PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3225 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3226 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3227 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3228 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3229 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3230 course.
ff790e47 3231
5417f6d1
PH
3232PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3233 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3234 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3235 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3236 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3237 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3238
59cf8544
PH
3239PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3240 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3241 do -d+all out of habit.
3242
e7ad8a65
PH
3243PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3244 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3245 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3246
ade42478
PH
3247PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3248 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3249 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3250 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3251 record types that Exim uses.
3252
182ad5cf
PH
3253PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3254 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3255 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3256 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3257 non-existent file that was broken.
3258
b0d9fc80
TK
3259TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3260 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3261
3262TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3263 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3264 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3265
3266TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3267
47c7a64a
PH
3268PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3269 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3270 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3271 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3272 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3273 same time.
3274
a388bce4
SC
3275SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3276 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3277 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3278 at a slight CPU cost.
3279
3280SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3281 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3282
3283SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3284 by Marc Sherman.
3285
0793e4ed
SC
3286SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3287
c58b88df
PH
3288PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3289 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3290
e7ad8a65 3291
7982096b
PH
3292Exim version 4.51
3293-----------------
3294
1a46a8c5
PH
3295TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3296 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3297
2f079f46 3298TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3299
3300TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3301
3302PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3303 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3304
3305PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3306 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3307 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3308 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3309 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3310 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3311 file.
3312
3313PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3314 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3315 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3316 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3317 these two options.
3318
3319PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3320 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3321 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3322 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3323 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3324 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3325 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3326 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3327
3328PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3329 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3330
3331PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3332 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3333 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3334 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3335 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3336 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3337
3338PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3339 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3340 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3341 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3342
3343PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3344 Finch).
3345
3346PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3347 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3348
49c2d5ea
PH
3349PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3350 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3351 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3352 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3353 message.
49c2d5ea 3354
bf759a8b
PH
3355PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3356
83364d30
PH
3357PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3358 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3359
7999bbd7
PH
3360PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3361 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3362 to what was transported.)
3363
7dbf77c9
PH
3364TF/01 Added $received_time.
3365
74e0617f
PH
3366PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3367 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3368 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3369 spamd_address settings.
3370
2f079f46
PH
3371PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3372 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3373 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3374 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3375 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3376
8c841523
PH
3377PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3378
7766a4f0
PH
3379PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3380 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3381 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3382 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3383 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3384
8b417f2c
PH
3385PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3386 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3387
901f42cb
PH
3388PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3389 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3390 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3391 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3392 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3393 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3394 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3395 for failure.
3396
f9b9210e
PH
3397PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3398 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3399 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3400 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3401 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3402 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3403 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3404 "input=".
3405
54cdb463
PH
3406PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3407
cf00dad6
PH
3408PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3409 driver and ACL definitions.
3410
acb1b346
PH
3411PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3412 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3413
c5ddb310
PH
3414PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3415 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3416 understands it better than I do:
3417
3418 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3419 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3420
3421 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3422 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3423 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3424 => three warnings about OTP not working
3425 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3426
3427 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3428 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3429 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3430 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3431 for each call.)
3432 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3433 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3434
3435 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3436 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3437 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3438
31619da6
PH
3439PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3440 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3441 specified.
3442
bebaf0fc
PH
3443PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3444 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3445 "Linux".
3446
475fe28a
PH
3447PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3448 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3449 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3450
3451 warn !verify = sender
3452 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3453
3454 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3455 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3456
7e8bec7a
PH
3457PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3458
3459 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3460 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3461
3462 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3463 nomenclature these days.)
3464
e4a89c47
PH
3465PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3466 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3467
5ca2a9a1
PH
3468PH/30 In these circumstances:
3469 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3470 . First host does not offer TLS;
3471 . First host accepts first address;
3472 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3473 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3474 . Second host accepts second address.
3475 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3476 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3477 address.
7e8bec7a 3478
c688b954
PH
3479PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3480 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3481 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3482 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3483 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3484
fed77020
PH
3485PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3486 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3487
7fe1560f
PH
3488PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3489 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3490
ebb6e6d5
PH
3491PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3492 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3493 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3494
9c4e8f60
PH
3495PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3496 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3497 overlooked.
3498
3499PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3500
d7174846
PH
3501PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3502 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3503 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3504 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3505 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3506 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3507 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3508
3509 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3510 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3511 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3512 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3513 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3514
3515 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3516 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3517 routed further.
3518
cfe75fc3
PH
3519PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3520 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3521 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3522 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3523 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3524 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3525
be22d70e
PH
3526PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3527
0612b098
PH
3528PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3529 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3530 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3531 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3532 printable escape sequences.
3533
2e0c1448
PH
3534PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3535 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3536 body only.
3537
447d236c
PH
3538PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3539 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3540 are as follows:
3541
3542 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3543 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3544 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3545 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3546 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3547
3548 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3549 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3550 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3551
d20976dc
PH
3552PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3553
f656d135
PH
3554PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3555 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3556 play with."
3557
2e2a30b4
PH
3558PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3559 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3560 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3561 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3562 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3563 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3564 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3565 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3566 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3567 the log output.
3568
9176e9f0
PH
3569PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3570 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3571 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3572 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3573 "make".
3574
7982096b 3575
bbe902f0
PH
3576A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3577----------------------------------------
3578
3579Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3580changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3581needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3582in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3583that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3584release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3585from 4.43.
3586
3587I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
35884.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3589those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3590historical information.
3591
3592
f7b63901 3593Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3594-----------------
3595
5fe762f6
PH
3596 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3597
139059f6 3598 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3599 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3600
7086e875
PH
3601 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3602 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3603 place.
3604
35af9f61
PH
3605 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3606 filter fails to execute.
3607
b668c215
PH
3608 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3609 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3610 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3611 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3612 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3613
a494b1e1
PH
3614 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3615
3616 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3617 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3618 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3619 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3620
c5fcb476
PH
3621 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3622 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3623 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3624 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3625 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3626
69358f02
PH
3627 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3628
5be20824
PH
362910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3630
eb2c0248
PH
363111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3632 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3633 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3634 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3635
2a3eea10
PH
363612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3637 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3638 sender verification.
3639
364013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3641 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3642
23c7ff99
PH
364314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3644
4deaf07d
PH
364515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3646 connection timeout.
3647
926e1192
PH
364816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3649 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3650
650edc6f
PH
365117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3652 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3653
2c7db3f5
PH
365418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3655 information about exactly what failed.
3656
3d235903
PH
365719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3658
7c7ad977
PH
365920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3660 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3661 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3662
981756db
PH
366321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3664 It is now set to "smtps".
3665
d4eb88df
PH
366622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3667 ignore_target_hosts.
3668
366923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3670 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3671 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3672 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3673 "[x.x.x.x]".
3674
7d468ab8
PH
367524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3676 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3677 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3678
367925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3680 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3681 wake it up if nothing else does.
3682
62c0818f
PH
368326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3684 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3685 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3686 end up negative.
3687
26034054
PH
368827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3689 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3690
af66f652
PH
369128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3692
90af77f4
PH
369329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3694 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3695 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3696 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3697 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3698 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3699 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3700 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3701
d8ef3577
PH
370230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3703 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3704 than one IP address.
3705
5cb8cbc6
PH
370631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3707 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3708 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3709 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3710
14702f5b
PH
371132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3712 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3713 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3714 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3715 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3716 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3717
063b1e99
PH
371833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3719 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3720 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3721 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3722
652e1b65
PH
372334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3724 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3725 respected.
3726
6f0c9a4f
PH
372735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3728 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3729 $sender_host_address.
3730
33397d19
PH
373136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3732 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3733 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3734 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3735 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3736 very small.
3737
7bb56e1f
PH
373837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3739
3740 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3741 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3742
ea3bc19b
PH
3743 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3744 just the host names, not the priorities.
3745
3746 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3747 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3748 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3749
ea3bc19b 3750 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3751 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3752
0bcb2a0e
PH
375338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3754 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3755 domain.
3756
2ac0e484
PH
375739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3758
4e1fde53
PH
375940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3760 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3761
de365ded
PH
376241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3763 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3764 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3765
f05da2e8
PH
376642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3767
d6453af2
PH
376843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3769
f7b63901
PH
377044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3771
377245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3773 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3774 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3775 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3776 because the tests only now provoked it.
3777
a444213a
PH
377846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3779 (this can affect the format of dates).
3780
0ec020ea
PH
378147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3782 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3783 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3784 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3785
b1206957
PH
378648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3787
378849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3789 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3790 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3791 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3792
26dd5a95
PH
379350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3794 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3795 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3796
343b2385
PH
379751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3798 autoreply.
3799
1c5466b9
PH
380052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3801 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3802 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3803 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3804 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3805 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3806 is going on).
3807
55ee9ee3
PH
380853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3809 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3810 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3811 the line.
3812
d38f8232
PH
381354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3814 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3815 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3816
3817 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3818 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3819 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3820 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3821 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3822 so I produce this patch..."
3823
3295e65b
PH
3824 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3825 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3826 is not defined.
3827
7102e136
PH
382855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3829 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3830 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3831 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3832 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3833
3ca0ba97
PH
383456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3835
c2bcbe20
PH
383657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3837 long debug lines gets shown.
3838
18ce445d
PH
383958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3840 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3841
1f5b4c3d
PH
384259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3843
3844 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3845 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3846 of $primary_hostname.
3847
b975ba52
PH
384860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3849 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3850 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3851 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3852 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3853 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3854 by change 4.50/55 above.
3855
3856 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3857 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3858 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3859 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3860 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3861 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3862 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3863
386461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3865 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3866 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3867 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3868
17ffcae7
PH
386962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3870 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3871
d95f9fdb
PH
387263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3873 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3874 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3875 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3876 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3877
86b8287f
PH
387864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3879 This has been fixed.
3880
60dc5e56
PH
388165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3882 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3883 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3884 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3885 the caching.)
3886
533244af
PH
388766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3888
a5a28604
PH
388967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3890 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3891 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3892 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3893
7e634d24
PH
389468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3895 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3896
3e11c26b
PH
389769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3898 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3899 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3900
6729cf78
PH
390170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3902 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3903 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3904 message there.
3905
00f00ca5
PH
390671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3907 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3908 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3909
c9bdd01c
PH
391072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3911 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3912 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3913 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3914
d43194df
PH
391573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3916 during host lookups.
3917
fe5b5d0b
PH
391874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3919 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3920
3921 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3922
76a2d7ba
PH
392375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3924 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3925 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3926 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3927 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3928 background.
3929
393076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3931 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3932
04f7d5b9
PH
393377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3934 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3935 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3936
bc60667e
PH
393778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3938
bb6e88ff
PH
393979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3940 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3941 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3942 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3943 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3944 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3945 process earlier.
3946
1e70f85b
PH
394780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3948 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3949 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3950 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3951 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3952
395381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3954 tables).
3955
4e01f9d6
PH
395682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3957
1ee1cef2
PH
395883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3959 "vacation" handling.
3960
6e2b4ccc
PH
396184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3962 OS variants using glibc.
3963
8e669ac1
PH
396485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3965
495ae4b0 3966
bbe902f0
PH
3967----------------------------------------------------
3968See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3969----------------------------------------------------
3970
3971
3972Exim version 4.44
3973-----------------
3974
3975 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3976 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3977 transport
3978
3979 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3980 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3981 place.
3982
3983 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3984 filter fails to execute.
3985
3986 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3987 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3988 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3989 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3990 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3991
3992 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3993 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3994 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3995 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3996
3997 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3998 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3999 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4000 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4001 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4002
4003 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4004
4005 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4006 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4007 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4008 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4009
4010 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4011 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4012 sender verification.
4013
401410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4015 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4016
401711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4018 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4019
402012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4021 ignore_target_hosts.
4022
402313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4024 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4025 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4026 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4027 "[x.x.x.x]".
4028
402914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4030 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4031 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4032
403315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4034 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4035 wake it up if nothing else does.
4036
403716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4038 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4039 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4040 end up negative.
4041
404217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4043 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4044
ea3a6f44 404518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4046
404719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4048 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4049 empty pattern.
4050
405120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4052 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4053 one IP address.
4054
ea3a6f44
NM
405521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4056 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4057 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4058 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4059 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4060 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4061
ea3a6f44
NM
406222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4063 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4064 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4065
406623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4067 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4068 $sender_host_address.
4069
407024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4071
ea3a6f44
NM
407225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4073 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4074 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4075
407626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4077 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4078
ea3a6f44
NM
407927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4080 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4081
ea3a6f44
NM
408228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4083 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4084 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4085 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4086
408729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4088 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4089 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4090
ea3a6f44
NM
409130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4092 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4093 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4094 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4095
ea3a6f44
NM
409631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4097 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4098 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4099
ea3a6f44
NM
410031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4101 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4102
ea3a6f44
NM
410332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4104 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4105 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4106 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4107 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4108 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4109 is going on).
bbe902f0 4110
ea3a6f44
NM
411133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4112 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4113 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4114 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4115 CAN-2005-0021
4116
ea3a6f44
NM
411734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4118 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4119 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4120 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4121 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4122 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4123 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4124
4125 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4126 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4127 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4128 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4129 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4130 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4131 CAN-2005-0021
4132
ea3a6f44
NM
413335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4134 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4135 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4136 CAN-2005-0022
4137
ea3a6f44
NM
413836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4139 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4140 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4141 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4142 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4143
ea3a6f44
NM
414437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4145 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4146 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4147 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4148 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4149
ea3a6f44
NM
415038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4151 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4152 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4153 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4154 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4155
4156
495ae4b0
PH
4157Exim version 4.43
4158-----------------
4159
4160 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4161 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4162 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4163 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4164 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4165 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4166 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4167
4168 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4169 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4170 the delivery.
4171
4172 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4173
4174 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4175
4176 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4177 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4178 to local_scan().
4179
4180 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4181 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4182 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4183 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4184 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4185
4186 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4187 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4188
4189 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4190
4191 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4192
419310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4194 header_sender only.
4195
419611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4197 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4198
419912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4200 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4201 affecting debugging statements).
4202
420313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4204
420514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4206 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4207 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4208 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4209 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4210 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4211 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4212 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4213 after the received time, and all would be well.
4214
421515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4216 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4217 condition in an expansion string.
4218
421916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4220
422117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4222 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4223 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4224 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4225 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4226 job under whatever limits there are.
4227
422818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4229
423019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4231 space).
4232
423320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4234 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4235 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4236 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4237 return path is set.
4238
423921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4240 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4241 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4242 binary data in such strings.
4243
424422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4245
424623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4247 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4248 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4249 failure, which is pointless.
4250
425124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4252
425325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4254
425526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4256 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4257 Sender: header lines.
4258
425927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4260 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4261 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4262
426328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4264 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4265 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4266 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4267 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4268 happens.
4269
427029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4271 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4272 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4273 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4274 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4275
427630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4277 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4278 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4279 1024.
4280
428131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4282 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4283
428432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4285 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4286
428733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4288
428932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4290
429133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4292
429334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4294 syntax error.
4295
429635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4297
429836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4299
430037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4301 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4302 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4303 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4304
430538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4306 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4307
4308
4309Exim version 4.42
4310-----------------
4311
4312 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4313 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4314 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4315 it was not quoted.
4316 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4317 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4318 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4319 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4320 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4321 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4322
4323 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4324 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4325 verification failure".
4326
4327 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4328 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4329 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4330 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4331
4332 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4333 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4334 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4335 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4336 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4337 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4338 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4339 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4340 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4341 treated as a timeout.
4342
4343 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4344 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4345 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4346 not set for Exim filters).
4347
4348 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4349 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4350 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4351
4352 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4353
4354 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4355 try to make them clearer.
4356
4357 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4358 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4359
4360 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4361
4362 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4363
436410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4365 only the Cygwin environment.
4366
436711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4368 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4369 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4370 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4371 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4372
437312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4374 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4375 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4376 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4377 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4378 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4379 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4380
438113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4382 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4383
438414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4385
4386 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4387 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4388 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4389
4390 To: susanne@some.where
4391
4392 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4393 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4394 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4395 of addresses in From: header lines).
4396
4397 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4398 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4399 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4400
4401 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4402 treated as non-personal.
4403
4404 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4405 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4406
440715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4408
440916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4410
441117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4412 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4413 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4414
441518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4416 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4417
441819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4419 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4420 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4421 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4422 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4423 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4424
442520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4426 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4427 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4428 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4429 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4430 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4431 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4432 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4433
4434 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4435
443621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4437 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4438
443922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4440 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4441 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4442
444323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4444 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4445
444624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4447 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4448 rather than long int.
4449
445025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4451
445226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4453
4454
4455Exim version 4.41
4456-----------------
4457
4458 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4459 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4460 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4461 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4462 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4463 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4464
4465
4466Exim version 4.40
4467-----------------
4468
4469 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4470 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4471
4472 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4473 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4474 socklen_t is defined.
4475
4476 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4477 always exist.
4478
4479 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4480 configured.
4481
4482 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4483 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4484 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4485 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4486 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4487
4488 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4489 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4490 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4491 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4492
4493 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4494 of flapping under certain conditions.
4495
4496 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4497 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4498 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4499
4500 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4501
450210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4503
450411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4505 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4506 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4507 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4508
450912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4510 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4511 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4512 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4513 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4514 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4515 preserved with the message after it was received.
4516
451713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4518 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4519 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4520 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4521 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4522 test suite worked just fine.
4523
452414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4525 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4526 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4527
452815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4529 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4530 string.
4531
453216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4533 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4534 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4535 does not fully solve it.
4536
453717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4538 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4539 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4540 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4541 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4542
454318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4544 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4545 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4546
454719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4548 string, for example:
4549
4550 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4551
4552 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4553 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4554 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4555 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4556 the routers could not see them.
4557
455820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4559 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4560
456121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4562 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4563 output).
4564
456522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4566 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4567 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4568 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4569 that needed quoting.
4570
457123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4572 was not being matched caselessly.
4573
457424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4575 backslashes.
4576
457725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4578 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4579 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4580 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4581 when use_sender is false.
4582
458326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4584
458527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4586
458728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4588
458929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4590 the configuration file.
4591
459230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4593 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4594
459531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4596
459732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4598 bytes in the message body.
4599
460033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4601 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4602 delivery.
4603
460434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4605
460635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4607
460836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4609 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4610 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4611 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4612 another IP address.
4613
4614
4615Exim version 4.34
4616-----------------
4617
4618 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4619 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4620
4621 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4622 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4623 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4624 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4625 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4626
4627 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4628 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4629
4630 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4631 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4632 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4633
4634 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4635 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4636 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4637
4638 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4639 for routers.
4640
4641 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4642 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4643 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4644 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4645 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4646 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4647 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4648
4649
4650Exim version 4.33
4651-----------------
4652
4653 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4654 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4655 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4656 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4657 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4658 default (and expected) setting.
4659
4660 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4661 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4662 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4663 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4664
4665 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4666 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4667
4668 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4669 in domain lists.
4670
4671 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4672 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4673 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4674 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4675 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4676 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4677
4678 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4679 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4680 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4681
4682 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4683 part (NOT match_host).
4684
4685 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4686
4687 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4688 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4689 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4690 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4691 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4692 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4693 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4694 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4695 the same named file.
4696
469710. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4698 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4699 when Exim is built.
4700
470111. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4702 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4703 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4704 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4705 a host name.
4706
470712. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4708 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4709 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4710
471113. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4712
471314. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4714
471515. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4716
471716. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4718 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4719
472017. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4721 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4722 before starting the TLS session.
4723
472418. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4725
472619. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4727 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4728
472920. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4730 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4731 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4732 colon in the middle).
4733
4734
4735Exim version 4.32
4736-----------------
4737
4738 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4739 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4740 multiple configurations are in use.
4741
4742 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4743 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4744 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4745 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4746 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4747 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4748
4749 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4750 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4751
4752 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4753 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4754 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4755
4756 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4757 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4758 occurs.
4759
4760 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4761 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4762
4763 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4764
4765 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4766 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4767
4768 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4769
4770 -prval:sval
4771
4772 is equivalent to
4773
4774 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4775
4776 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4777 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4778 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4779 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4780 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4781
478210. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4783 Exim's behaviour:
4784
4785 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4786 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4787 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4788 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4789 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4790 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4791
4792 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4793 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4794 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4795 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4796 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4797 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4798 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4799 string.
4800
4801 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4802 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4803 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4804 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4805 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4806
480711. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4808
480912. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4810 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4811 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4812
481313. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4814
481514. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4816 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4817 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4818 information.
4819
482015. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4821 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4822
482316. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4824 Three changes have been made:
4825
4826 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4827 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4828 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4829 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4830 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4831
4832 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4833 been restored.
4834
4835 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4836 the modified behaviour.
4837
4838
4839Exim version 4.31
4840-----------------
4841
4842 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4843 Larry Rosenman.
4844
4845 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4846 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4847
4848 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4849 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4850 try to track down a specific problem.
4851
4852 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4853 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4854 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4855
4856 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4857 warning.
4858
4859 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4860 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4861 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4862 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4863 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4864 some earlier ones do not.
4865
4866 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4867
4868 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4869 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4870 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4871 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4872 address literals are enabled, of course).
4873
4874 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4875
487610. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4877 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4878 by a command such as
4879
4880 exim -f "" ...
4881
4882 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4883
488411. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4885
488612. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4887 remained set. It is now erased.
4888
488913. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4890 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4891
489214. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4893 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4894 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4895 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4896 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4897 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4898 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4899 appropriate error code.
4900
490115. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4902 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4903 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4904 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4905 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4906 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4907
490816. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4909 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4910 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4911
491217. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4913 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4914 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4915 terminate the header.
4916
491718. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4918 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4919 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4920
492119. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4922 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4923 (4.30/29). In particular:
4924
4925 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4926 imposed.
4927
4928 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4929 to write a maildirsize file.
4930
4931 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4932 the transport, the new value overrides.
4933
4934 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4935 count.
4936
493720. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4938 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4939 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4940 space or a tab.
4941
494221. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4943 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4944 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4945 the fallback hosts.
4946
494722. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4948 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4949 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4950
495123. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4952 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4953 using a union.
4954
495524. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4956 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4957 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4958
495925. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4960
496126. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4962
496327. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4964
496528. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4966 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4967 become corrupted.
4968
496929. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4970 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4971 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4972 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4973 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4974 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4975 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4976 too great.
4977
497830. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4979 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4980 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4981 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4982 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4983 incorrectly.
4984
498531. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4986 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4987 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4988 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4989 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4990 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4991 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4992 cached value only when the same options are set.
4993
499432. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4995
499633. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4997 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4998 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4999 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5000 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5001
500234: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5003 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5004 it is clearly obsolete.
5005
500635. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5007 transport.
5008
500936. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5010 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5011 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5012 times.
5013
501437. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5015 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5016 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5017 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5018 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5019
502038. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5021 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5022 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5023 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5024
502539. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5026
5027 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5028
5029 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5030 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5031 2^31.
5032
503340. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5034 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5035 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5036 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5037 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5038 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5039 $localpart_data.
5040
504141. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5042 with the -f command-line option.
5043
504442. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5045 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5046 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5047 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5048 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5049 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5050
505143. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5052 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5053 line.
5054
505544. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5056 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5057 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5058 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5059 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5060 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5061 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5062 buffer is too small.
5063
506445. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5065 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5066
506746. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5068 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5069 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5070 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5071 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5072 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5073 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5074 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5075 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5076
507747. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5078 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5079 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5080
508148. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5082 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5083 ACL").
5084
508549. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5086 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5087 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5088 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5089 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5090
509150. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5092 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5093 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5094 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5095 is set.
5096
509751. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5098
509952. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5100
510153. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5102 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5103
510454. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5105 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5106 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5107
510855. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5109 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5110 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5111 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5112 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5113
511456. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5115 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5116 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5117 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5118 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5119 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5120 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5121
512257. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5123 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5124 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5125 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5126 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5127 the test of how many are available.
5128
512958. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5130 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5131 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5132 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5133 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5134 new message is started.
5135
513659. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5137 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5138
513960. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5140 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5141
514261. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5143 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5144 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5145 is no long logged.
5146
514762. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5148 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5149 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5150 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5151 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5152 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5153 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5154
515563. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5156 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5157 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5158 interpreted as octal.
5159
516064. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5161 setting.
5162
516365. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5164 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5165 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5166 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5167 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5168 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5169
517066. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5171 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5172 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5173 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5174
5175 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5176 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5177 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5178 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5179
5180 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5181 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5182 is a bug fix.
5183
5184 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5185 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5186
518767. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5188
518968. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5190 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5191 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5192 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5193
519469. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5195 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5196 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5197 supplied", which is not helpful.
5198
519970. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5200 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5201 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5202
520371. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5204 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5205 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5206 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5207 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5208 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5209 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5210 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5211
521272. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5213 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5214 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5215 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5216 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5217
521873. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5219 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5220 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5221 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5222 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5223 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5224
522574. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5226 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5227 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5228
522975. Added write_rejectlog option.
5230
523176. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5232 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5233 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5234 variables.
5235
523677. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5237
523878. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5239 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5240 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5241 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5242 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5243 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5244 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5245 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5246
524779. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5248 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5249 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5250 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5251 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5252
525380. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5254 Haardt.
5255
525681. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5257 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5258 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5259 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5260 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5261 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5262 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5263 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5264 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5265
5266
5267Exim version 4.30
5268-----------------
5269
5270 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5271 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5272 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5273
5274 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5275 fixed.
5276
5277 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5278 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5279 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5280
5281 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5282 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5283 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5284 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5285 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5286 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5287
5288 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5289 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5290 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5291 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5292 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5293 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5294 the Exim test suite.
5295
5296 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5297 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5298 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5299 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5300
5301 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5302 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5303 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5304 specify it in this variable.
5305
5306 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5307 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5308 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5309 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5310
5311 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5312 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5313 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5314 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5315
5316 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5317 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5318 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5319 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5320 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5321
5322 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5323
532410. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5325 they are logged.
5326
532711. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5328 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5329 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5330 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5331 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5332
533312. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5334 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5335
533613. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5337 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5338 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5339 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5340 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5341
534214. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5343 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5344
534515. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5346 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5347 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5348
534916. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5350 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5351
535217. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5353 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5354
535518. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5356 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5357 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5358
535919. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5360 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5361
536220. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5363 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5364 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5365 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5366
536721. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5368
536922. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5370 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5371 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5372 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5373
537423. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5375
537624. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5377 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5378
537925. Added .include_if_exists.
5380
538126. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5382 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5383 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5384 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5385 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5386 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5387
538827. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5389
539028. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5391 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5392 this.
5393
539429. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5395
539630. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5397 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5398
5399 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5400 550 Sender verify failed
5401
5402 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5403 the final line of the response.
5404
540531. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5406 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5407 all other user lookups.
5408
540932. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5410 delivery time.
5411
541233. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5413 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5414 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5415 result into an int without checking.
5416
541734. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5418 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5419 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5420
542135. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5422 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5423 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5424 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5425
542636. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5427 correctly.
5428
542937. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5430 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5431
543238. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5433 to the empty sender.
5434
543539. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5436 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5437 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5438 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5439 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5440 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5441 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5442 panic log.
5443
544440. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5445 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5446 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5447 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5448 used.
5449
545041. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5451 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5452
545342. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5454 timestamps.
5455
545643. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5457 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5458
545944. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5460
546145. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5462 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5463 logs.
5464
546546. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5466 as soon as it is encountered.
5467
546847. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5469
547048. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5471 rewritten to "<>".
5472
547349. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5474 recognizes a tab character.
5475
547650. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5477 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5478 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5479 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5480
548151. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5482
548352. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5484 crash.
5485
548653. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5487
548854. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5489
549055. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5491 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5492 2822.
5493
549456. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5495 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5496 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5497 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5498 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5499
550057. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5501 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5502
550358. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5504 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5505 list (.included file names were always shown).
5506
550759. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5508 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5509 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5510 root at that time.
5511
551260. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5513 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5514
551561. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5516
551762. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5518
551963. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5520
552164. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5522 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5523 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5524 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5525 failures to open the logs.
5526
552765. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5528 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5529 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5530 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5531 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5532 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5533 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5534
5535
5536Exim version 4.24
5537-----------------
5538
5539 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5540 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5541 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5542 change 4.23/1.
5543
5544 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5545 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5546 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5547
5548 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5549 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5550 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5551
5552 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5553 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5554 causing some misleading effects.
5555
5556 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5557 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5558 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5559
5560 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5561 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5562 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5563 queue-runner function directly.
5564
5565
5566Exim version 4.23
5567-----------------
5568
5569 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5570 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5571
5572 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5573 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5574 was always written to the default place.
5575
5576 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5577 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5578 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5579
5580 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5581
5582 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5583
5584 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5585 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5586 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5587
5588 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5589 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5590 must start.
5591
5592 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5593 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5594 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5595
5596 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5597 command line option is disabled.
5598
5599 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5600 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5601
5602 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5603
5604 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5605
5606 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5607 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5608
560910. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5610
561111. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5612 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5613 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5614 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5615 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5616 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5617
561812. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5619 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5620 timeout.
5621
562213. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5623 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5624
562514. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5626 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5627
562815. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5629 received was valid base64.
5630
563116. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5632 name of the variable that was being set.
5633
563417. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5635
563618. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5637 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5638 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5639 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5640 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5641 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5642
564319. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5644
564520. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5646 nor realm was specified.
5647
564821. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5649 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5650 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5651 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5652
565322. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5654 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5655 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5656
565723. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5658 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5659 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5660
566124. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5662 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5663 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5664 some systems use these upper case variants.
5665
566625. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5667 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5668 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5669 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5670
567126. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5672
567327. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5674 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5675
567628. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5677 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5678 expansion variable.
5679
568029. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5681
568230. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5683 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5684 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5685 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5686
568731. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5688 using it.
5689
569032. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5691 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5692 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5693
569433. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5695 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5696
569734. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5698 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5699 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5700 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5701
570235. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5703 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5704 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5705
570636. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5707
570837. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5709 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5710 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5711 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5712 aborted.
5713
571438. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5715 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5716 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5717
571839. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5719
572040. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5721 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5722
572341. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5724 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5725
572642. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5727 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5728 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5729 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5730 when emails are that large.
5731
5732
5733
5734Exim version 4.22
5735-----------------
5736
5737 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5738 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5739
5740 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5741 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5742 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5743
5744 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5745 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5746 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5747
5748 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5749 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5750 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5751 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5752 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5753
5754 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5755 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5756 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5757 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5758 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5759 ever.
5760
5761 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5762 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5763 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5764 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5765 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5766 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5767 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5768 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5769 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5770 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5771 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5772 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5773 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5774 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5775
5776 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5777 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5778 parameterised it.
5779
5780 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5781 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5782 error should be diagnosed.
5783
5784 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5785 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5786 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5787 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5788 appeared instead of "NULL".
5789
579010. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5791 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5792 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5793 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5794 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5795 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5796 proceeds).
5797
5798 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5799 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5800 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5801
5802
5803Exim version 4.21
5804-----------------
5805
5806 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5807 or receiver verification errors.
5808
5809 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5810 name.
5811
5812 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5813 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5814 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5815 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5816
5817 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5818 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5819 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5820 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5821 shouldn't happen again.
5822
5823 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5824 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5825 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5826
5827 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5828 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5829
5830 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5831
5832 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5833 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5834
5835 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5836 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5837 RFC.
5838
583910. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5840 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5841 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5842
584311. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5844 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5845 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5846 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5847
584812. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5849 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5850 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5851 to define what should happen).
5852
585313. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5854 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5855 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5856
585714. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5858
585915. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5860
586116. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5862 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5863
586417. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5865 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5866 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5867 structure in all cases.
5868
5869 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5870 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5871 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5872 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5873
587418. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5875 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5876 domain name.
5877
587819. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5879 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5880
588120. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5882 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5883
588421. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5885 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5886 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5887
588822. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5889 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5890 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5891
589223. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5893 the book and for uniformity.
5894
589524. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5896
589725. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5898 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5899 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5900 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5901 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5902 non-existent command as the problem.
5903
590426. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5905 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5906 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5907
590827. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5909
591028. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5911 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5912 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5913
591429. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5915 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5916 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5917 timestamps using strftime().
5918
591930. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5920 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5921
592232. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5923 transport-time rewrites.
5924
592533. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5926 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5927 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5928 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5929
593034. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5931 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5932
593335. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5934 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5935 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5936 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5937 comma and a space.
5938
593936. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5940 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5941 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5942 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5943 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5944 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5945 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5946
594737. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5948 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5949 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5950 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5951 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5952
595338. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5954 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5955 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5956 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5957 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5958 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5959 remaining text gets split now.
5960
596139. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5962 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5963 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5964 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5965
596640. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5967 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5968 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5969 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5970 $return_path.
5971
597241. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5973 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5974 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5975 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5976 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5977 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5978 passed through if needed.
5979
598042. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5981 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5982 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5983 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5984 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5985 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5986
598743. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5988 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5989 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5990 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5991 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5992
599344. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5994 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5995 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5996 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5997 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5998
599945. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6000 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6001 noticed.
6002
600346. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6004 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6005 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6006 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6007 mayhem of various kinds.
6008
600947. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6010 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6011 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6012 the right test for positive values.
6013
601448. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6015 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6016 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6017 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6018 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6019 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6020 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6021 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6022 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6023 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6024 envelope.
6025
602649. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6027 module.
6028
602950. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6030 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6031 forbidding it.
6032
603351. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6034 the existing equality matching.
6035
603652. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6037 dealing with inode numbers.
6038
603953. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6040 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6041 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6042
604354. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6044 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6045 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6046 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6047 local_scan().
6048
604955. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6050 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6051 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6052 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6053 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6054 relay addresses has also been removed.
6055
605656. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6057
605857. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6059 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6060 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6061
606258. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6063 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6064 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6065 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6066 processing applies to CR:
6067
6068 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6069 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6070
6071 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6072 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6073 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6074 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6075
607659. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6077 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6078 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6079
608060. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6081 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6082 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6083 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6084 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6085 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6086 arisen.
6087
608861. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6089 program routers.
6090
609162. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6092 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6093 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6094 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6095 adds:
6096
6097 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6098
6099 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6100
6101 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6102
610363. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6104 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6105 not considered personal.
6106
610764. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6108
610965. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6110
611166. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6112
611367. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6114 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6115 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6116 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6117 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6118 header lines, and spool format errors.
6119
612068. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6121 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6122 for more flexibility.
6123
612469. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6125 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6126 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6127
612870. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6129 Sabourenkov.
6130
613171. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6132 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6133 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6134 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6135 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6136 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6137 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6138 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6139 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6140
614172. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6142 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6143 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6144 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6145 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6146 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6147 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6148
614973. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6150 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6151 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6152
615374. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6154 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6155 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6156 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6157 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6158 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6159 instead of killing the process with assert().
6160
616175. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6162 than Unicode encoding.
6163
616476. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6165 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6166 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6167 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6168
616977. Added process_log_path.
6170
617178. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6172 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6173
617479. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6175 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6176
617780. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6178 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6179 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6180
618181. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6182 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6183 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6184 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6185 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6186 were applied:
6187
6188 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6189 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6190 as invalid.
6191
619282. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6193 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6194 they will be used during message reception.
6195
6196
6197Exim version 4.20
6198-----------------
6199
6200The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6201
6202****