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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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10
11JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
12 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
13 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
14 pairs of long lines into single ones.
15
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16PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
17 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
18
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19JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
20 This permits better logging.
21
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22JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
23 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
24 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
25 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
26 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 27 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
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29JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
30 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
31 "exiwhat" output.
32
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33PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
34 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
35 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
36
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37JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
38 than 255 are no longer allowed.
39
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40JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
41 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
42 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
43 client, there is no benefit for these.
44 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
45 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
46 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
47 is used (3.2.4 +).
48
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49PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
50 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
51
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52JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
53 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
54 erroneously found still-pending ones.
55
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56JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
57 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
58
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59JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
60 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
61 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
62 signature and again for transmission.
63
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64JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
65 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
66 mode. Now, it's been long enough.
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9427e879 72JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 73 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 74
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75JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
76
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77PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
78 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
79
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80JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
81 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
82
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83JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
84 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
85 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
86 before acknowledging the chunk.
87
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88PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
89 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
90 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
91
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92JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
93 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
94 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
95 should.
96
97JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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98 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
99 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 101JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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102 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
103
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104JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
105 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
106 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
107 body hash calculated value.
108
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109JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
110 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
111 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
112
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113JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
114
115JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
116 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
117
118JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
119 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
120 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
121
122JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
123 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
124 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
125 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
126 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
127 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
128
129JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
130 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
131 past that check, despite the cost.
132
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133JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
134 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
135 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
136
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137PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
138 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
139 TLS library to consume.
140
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141PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
142
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143PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
144
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145JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
146 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
147 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
148 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
149 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
150 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
151 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
152
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153PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
154
155PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
156
157PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
158 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
159 should be warning-free.
160
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161JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
162
163HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
164 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
165
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166HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
167 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
168 general solution here.
169
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170PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
171 already-broken messages in the queue.
172
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173JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
174
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175JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
176
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178Exim version 4.88
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181JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
182 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 183
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184JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
185 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
186 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
187
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188JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
189 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
190 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
191 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
192 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
193 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
194 if one fails this test.
195 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
196 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
197
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198JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
199 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
200
23bb6982 201JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 202 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 203
0bd1b1ed 204JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 205 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 206
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207JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
208 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
209
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210JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
211 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
212
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213JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
214
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215JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
216 certificate).
217
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218JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
219 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
220 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
221 connection after a verify cache hit.
222 Do not update it with the verify result either.
223
224JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
225 when routing results in more than one destination address.
226
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227JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
228 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
229 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
230 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
231 when the cutthrough connection is made).
232
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233JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
234 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
235
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236JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
237 Previously they were not counted.
238
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239JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
240 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
241 that needed the lookup.
242
4c04137d 243JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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244 distinguished as "(=".
245
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246JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
247 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
248
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249JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
250
251JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
252 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 253
4c04137d 254JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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255 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
256
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257JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
258 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
259 compatible.
260
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261JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
262 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
263 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
264 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
265
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266JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
267
f59aaaaa 268JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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269 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
270 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 271
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272JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
273 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
274 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
275 be lost.
276
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277JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
278 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
279 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
280 itself :(
281
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282JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
283 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
284 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
285
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286JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
287 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
288 options.
289
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290JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
291
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292PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
293 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
294
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295PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
296 are not in the system include path.
297
ad7fc6eb 298JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 299 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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300 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
301 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 302
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303JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
304 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
305 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
306
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307JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
308
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309HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
310 an incoming connection.
311
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312HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
313 to rspamd.
314
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315HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
316 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 317
87cb4a16 318JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 319 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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325JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
326 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
327 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
328 client dropping the TLS connection.
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330TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
331 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
332
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333TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
334 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
335 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
336 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
337 outgoing I= field.
338
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339JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
340 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
341 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
342 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
343 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
344 check on the next write.
345
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346HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
347 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
348 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
349 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
350 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
351
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352JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
353 mime_regex ACL conditions.
354
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355JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
356 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
357 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
358
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359JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
360 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
361 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
362 an authenticate fail is not an error.
363
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364HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
365 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
366
4c04137d 367JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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368 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
369
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370JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
371 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
372 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
373 distinct.
374
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375JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
376
377JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
378
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379JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
380
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381JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
382 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
383
98b98887 384JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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385 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
386
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387JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
388
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389JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
390 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
391
392JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
393
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394JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
395 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
396
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397JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
398
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399JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
400 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 401 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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402 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
403 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
404 they will retry in-clear.
405 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
406 at installation time.
407
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408HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
409 with the $config_file variable.
410
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411JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
412 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
413 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
414 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 415 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 416
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417GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
418 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
419 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
420 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
421 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
422
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423JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
424
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425JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
426 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
427 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
428 list order is no longer honoured.
429
4c04137d 430JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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431 for DKIM processing.
432
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433JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
434 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 435
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436JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
437 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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438 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
439 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 440
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441JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
442 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
443
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444JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
445 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
446
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447JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
448 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
449
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450JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
451
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452JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
453 cached by the daemon.
454
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455JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
456 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
457
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458JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
459 keys are given for lookup.
460
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461JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
462 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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463 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
464 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 465
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466JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
467 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
468 server-side so match that on older versions.
469
07c73177 470JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 471 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 472 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 473
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474JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
475 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
476
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477JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
478 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
479 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 480 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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481 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
482 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
483 initial truncated version.
484
ab9152ff 485JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 486
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487JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
488
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489JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
490 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
491
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492JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
493
bc3c7bb7 494HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 495
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496JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
497 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
498 induced overflows.
499
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500JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
501 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
502 stage.
503
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504JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
505 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
506
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507JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
508 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
509 former class.
510
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511JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
512 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
513 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
514
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515JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
516 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
517 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
518 extraction. Accept either.
519
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524JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
525 expanded.
526
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527JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
528
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529JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
530 it.
531
01a4a5c5 532JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 533 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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534 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
535 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
536
cb1d7830 537JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 538 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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539 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
540
610ff438 541JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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542 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
543 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
544 TLS connections
610ff438 545
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546JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
547 sites use this now.
548
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549JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
550 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
551 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
552 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
553 have a dsn_lasthop option.
554
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555JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
556 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 557 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 558
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559JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
560
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561JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
562 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
563
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564JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
565 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
566
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567JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
568 /defer_ok option.
569
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570JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
571 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
572
fd4d8871 573JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 574 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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575 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
576
577JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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578 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
579 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 580
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581JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
582 timeout value per server.
583
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584JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
585 now have the list separator specified.
586
8a512ed5 587JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 588 option values.
8a512ed5 589
82c0c8ea 590JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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591 under OpenSSL.
592
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593JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
594
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595JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
596 rather than the verbs used.
597
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598JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
599 from 255 to 1024 chars.
600
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601JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
602
cfab9d68 603HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 604 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 605
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606JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
607 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
608
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609HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
610 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
611
4c04137d 612JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 613
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614JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
615
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616JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
617 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 618 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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619 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
620
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621JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
622
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623JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
624 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
625
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626JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
627 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
628
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629JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
630
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631JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
632
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633JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
634
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635JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
636 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
637
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638JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
639 added for tls authenticator.
640
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641HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
642
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647TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
648 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
649 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
650 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
651 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
652 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
653 the script parsing/test process like normal.
654
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655TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
656 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
657 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
658 function when detected.
659
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660JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
661 cause callback expansion.
662
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663TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
664 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
665 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
666 instead of bool when processing it.
667
0f06b4f2 668JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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669 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
670
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671JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
672
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673JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
674
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675TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
676
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677TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
678 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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680JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
681 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
682 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
683 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 684 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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685 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
686
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687JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
688 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
689 exceeded it.
690
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691JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
692 version 3.3.6 or later.
693
4c04137d 694JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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695 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
696 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 697 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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698 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
699 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
700 option is defined.
774ef2d7 701
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702TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
703 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
704
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705JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
706 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
707 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
708 matches.
709
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710JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
711 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
712 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
713
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714JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
715 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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716
717JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
718 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
719 syntax errors.
720
3394b36a 721JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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722
723JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
724 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
725
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726TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
727 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
728 tarball.
729
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730JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
731
4c04137d 732JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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733 Bug 1561.
734
735JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
736 output list separator was used.
737
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741TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
742 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
743 return.
1f0ebb98 744
a612424f 745JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 746 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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747
748JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
749
750TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 751 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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756
757TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
758
759 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
760 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
761 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
762 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
763 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
764 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
765
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766TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
767 utilities have not been installed.
768
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769JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
770 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
771
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772TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
773 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
774
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775TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
776 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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777 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
778 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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780JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
781
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782TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
783 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
784
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785PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
786 not dns_use_dnssec.
787
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788JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
789
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790TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
791 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
792 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
793
8ddef691 794TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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795 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
796 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
797 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
798 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 799 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 800
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801JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
802
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803JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
804 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
805
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806JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
807 failed delivery.
808
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809JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
810
511a6c14 811JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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812
813JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
814 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 815
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816JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
817 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
818
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819TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
820
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821JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
822
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823JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
824 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
825
826 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
827 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
828 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
829
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830TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
831 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
832 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
833 analysis.
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835JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
836
8c51eead 837JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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838 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
839 lookup).
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841TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
842 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
843 Schlichting.
35aba663 844
fd3b6a4a 845JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 846 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
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848TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
849 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
850
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851JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
852
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853TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
854 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
855 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
856
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857JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
858 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
859
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860JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
861 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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862 hosts_request_ocsp.
863
ed3bba5f 864JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 865 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 866 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
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868JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
869
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870TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
871 Christian Aistleitner.
872
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873JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
874
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875TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
876 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
877
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878JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
879 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
880
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881JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
882 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
883
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884TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
885 support and error reporting did not work properly.
886
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887TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
888 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
889
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890TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
891 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
892 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
893
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894JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
895
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896PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
897 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
898 Jasper Wallace.
899
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900JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
901
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902TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
903 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
904 CVE-2014-2972
905
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910PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
911
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912PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
913 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
914
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915PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
916 by GnuTLS.
917
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918PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
919 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
920 routines.
921
13363eba 922PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 923
66645890 924PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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925 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
926 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
927 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
928 using channel bindings instead).
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a3fb9793 930PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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931 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
932 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
933 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 934 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 935 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 936
d27f98fe 937TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 938
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939TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
940
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941TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
942 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
943
ae0e32ee 944TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 945 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 946 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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948TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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950TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
951
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952TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
953 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
954
976b7e9f
JH
955JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
956
be4a1376
JH
957JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
958
ec4b68e5
PP
959PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
960
d7148a07
NM
961NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
962 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 963
585121e2 964JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 965
2519e60d
TL
966PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
967 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
968 function.
a5f239e4 969
13d08c90
PP
970PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
971 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
972
bef3ea7f
JH
973JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
974 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
975 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 976
846726c5
JH
977JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
978
3a796370
JH
979JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
980
ea722490 981JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
982 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
983
b1b05573
JH
984JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
985 Bugzilla 884.
986
362145b5
JH
987JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
988 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
989
3c0a92dc
JH
990JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
991 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
992
6d7c6175
PP
993PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
994 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 995 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 996
6f123593
JH
997JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
998 authenticators.
999
c8e2fc1e
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1000JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1001 for control.
1002
005ac57f
PP
1003PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1004
3f1df0e3
PP
1005PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1006 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1007 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1008 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1009
67bd1ab3
TF
1010TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1011
1012 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1013 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1014 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1015 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1016 the retry rules.
1017
1018 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1019 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1020 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1021
1022 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1023 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1024 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1025 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1026
1ddeb334
TF
1027 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1028 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1029 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1030 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1031 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1032 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1033 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1034
1035 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1036 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1037
326cdc37
TF
1038TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1039
1040 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1041
1042 Resent-From: f
1043
1044 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1045 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1046 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1047 username as equal to the username.
1048
1049 This change corrects that bug.
1050
f62514b3
GF
1051GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1052 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1053 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1054
eb505532
TF
1055TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1056
14c7b357
PP
1057PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1058 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1059 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1060 NULL dereference and crash.
1061
94eaf700
PP
1062JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1063
6f5a440a
PP
1064PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1065 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1066 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1067
514ee161
SC
1068SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1069
fd98a5c6
JH
1070JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1071 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1072 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1073 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1074 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1075 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1076 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1077 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
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1078 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1079 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1080 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1081
035c7f1e
PP
1082PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1083 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1084
ff284120
PP
1085PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1086 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1087 Bugzilla 880.
1088
26e72755
PP
1089PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1090 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1091 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1092 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1093 an empty string is now equivalent.
1094
0fbd9bff
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1095PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1096 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1097 not performing validation itself.
1098
700d22f3
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1099PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1100 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1101
fcc8e047
JH
1102JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1103 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1104
4c04137d 1105TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1106
8c020188
PP
1107PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1108 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1109 other false fix of the same issue.
1110 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1111 Bugzilla 1363.
1112
d13cdd30
PP
1113PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1114 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1115
e2fbf4a2
PP
1116PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1117 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1118 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1119
f4c1088b
PP
1120PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1121 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1122 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1123
c5c2182f
PP
1124TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1125
73431ca9
JH
1126JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1127
2d07a215
TL
1128TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1129 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1130
a30a8861
TL
1131TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1132 Alexander Miroch.
1133
33382dd9
TL
1134TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1135 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1136 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1137 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1138 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1139
046172e6
TL
1140TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1141 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1142
581d7bee 1143TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1144 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1145 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1146
1147TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1148 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1149 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1150 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1151
237b2cf2
TL
1152TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1153
9fc5a352
TL
1154TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1155 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1156 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1157
b10e4ec2
TL
1158TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1159
e2cebd74
TL
1160TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1161 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1162 interaction.
1163
1164TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1165 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1166
2519e60d
TL
1167TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1168 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1169
e78e6ecf 1170
4263f395
PP
1171Exim version 4.80.1
1172-------------------
1173
1174PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1175 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1176 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1177
ea722490 1178
b1770b6e 1179Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1180-----------------
1181
1182PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1183 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1184 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1185
23c7e742
NM
1186NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1187
b322aac8
NM
1188NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1189 improved.
1190
4a891427
NM
1191NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1192
c1e794ba 1193PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1194
97753960
PP
1195PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1196
1197PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1198 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1199
df6303fa
PP
1200PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1201 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1202
7e6a8985
PP
1203PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1204 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1205
f1e05cc7 1206PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1207 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1208 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1209
4c287009
PP
1210PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1211
b98bb9ac
PP
1212PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1213 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1214
4a6a987a
PP
1215PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1216
c45dd180 1217PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1218
7db8d074
PP
1219PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1220 non-compliant senders.
1221 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1222
eae0036b 1223NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1224 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1225 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1226
dec5017e
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1227PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1228 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1229 in spool file corruption.
1230
c80c5570
PP
1231PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1232 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1233 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1234 "Got SSL error 2".
1235
076b11e2
PP
1236TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1237 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1238 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1239
5407bfff
JH
1240JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1241 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1242
9e45c72b
PP
1243JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1244
e74376d8
PP
1245PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1246 diagnostics.
1247 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1248
4c04137d 1249PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1250 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1251 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1252
7be682ca
PP
1253PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1254 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1255 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1256 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1257
ef840681
PP
1258PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1259 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1260
5bfb4cdf
PP
1261PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1262 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1263 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1264 resolver implementation change.
1265
c6e95d22
PP
1266PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1267 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1268
9cbad13b
PP
1269PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1270
9ee44efb
PP
1271PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1272
6a6084f8
PP
1273PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1274 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1275
12dd53c7
PP
1276PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1277 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1278
9e45c72b 1279JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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JH
1280 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1281
17c76198
PP
1282PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1283 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1284 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1285 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1286 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1287
53947857 1288PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1289
eae0036b 1290PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1291 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1292 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1293
9e45c72b 1294JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1295
7390e768
PP
1296PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1297 read-only, out of scope).
1298 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1299
08488c86
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1300PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1301 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1302 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1303 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1304
6475bd82
PP
1305PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1306
81f91683
PP
1307PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1308 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1309 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1310 real issues in debug logging.
1311
5779e6aa
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1312PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1313 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1314
3375e053
PP
1315PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1316 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1317 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1318
1319PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1320 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1321 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1322 problems.
3375e053 1323
9d26b8c0
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1324PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1325 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1326
57eb9e91 1327PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1328 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1329 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1330 needs to override this, it can.
1331
16880d1a
PP
1332PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1333 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1334 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1335
a799883d
PP
1336PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1337 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1338 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1339 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1340
3ecab157 1341PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1342
0599f9cf 1343
867fcbf5
PP
1344Exim version 4.77
1345-----------------
1346
1347PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1348 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1349
f1a29782
TF
1350TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1351
ab42bd23
TK
1352TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1353 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1354
0ca0cf52
TF
1355TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1356 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1357
921b12ca
TF
1358TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1359 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1360 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1361
1362 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1363 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1364 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1365 not safe for signals.
1366
1367 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1368 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1369 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1370 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1371 exiwhat.
1372
c99ce5c9
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1373TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1374
1375 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1376 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1377 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1378 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1379 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1380
1381 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1382 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1383 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1384 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1385 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1386 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1387
1388 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1389 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1390 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1391 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1392
1393 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1394 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1395 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1396 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1397
1398 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1399 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1400 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1401 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1402 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1403 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1404 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1405 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1406 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1407
1408 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1409 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1410 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1411 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1412
1413 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1414 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1415 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1416 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1417 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1418 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1419 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1420 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1421 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1422 details in the main documentation.
1423
3634fc25
TF
1424TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1425
792e8a19
TF
1426TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1427
5901f0ab
TF
1428TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1429 repository when doing development or release builds.
1430
7f2a2a43
PP
1431PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1432 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1433
061b7ebd
PP
1434PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1435 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1436 Bugzilla 97.
1437
e12f8c32
PP
1438PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1439
9e949f00 1440PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1441 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1442
1443PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1444 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1445
555ae6af 1446PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1447 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1448
1449PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1450 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1451
6f7fe114
PP
1452PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1453 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1454
c566dd90
PP
1455PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1456 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1457 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1458 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1459
d6cc7c78 1460PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1461 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1462 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1463
0d0e4455
PP
1464PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1465
3399bb60 1466PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1467
1468PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1469 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1470
0ca0cf52 1471
10906672
PP
1472Exim version 4.76
1473-----------------
1474
1475PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1476
754a0503
PP
1477PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1478 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1479
c0c7b2da
PP
1480PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1481
e97d1f08
PP
1482PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1483
084c1d8c
PP
1484PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1485 Bugzilla 1098.
1486
4e7ee012
PP
1487PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1488 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1489
c8d52a00
PP
1490TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1491 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1492
54e7ce4a
PP
1493PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1494 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1495
5ee6f336
PP
1496PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1497 Bugzilla 1104.
1498
c8d52a00 1499TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1500 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1501
1502TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1503 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1504 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1505 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1506
1507PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1508 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1509
10906672 1510
aa097c4c
NM
1511Exim version 4.75
1512-----------------
1513
4c04137d 1514NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1515 Bugzilla 1073
1516
7f3d9eff
TF
1517TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1518 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1519 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1520
159f52d2
TF
1521TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1522 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1523
0cc9542a
PP
1524PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1525 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1526 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1527
f7274286
PP
1528PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1529 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1530
7b797365
PP
1531PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1532 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1533
caacae52
NM
1534NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1535 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1536
09dcaba9
NM
1537NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1538 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1539
bc19a55b
PP
1540PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1541 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1542
bd4c9759
NM
1543NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1544 Fixes bug 943.
1545
b72aab72
PP
1546PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1547 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1548
2fe76745
PP
1549PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1550 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1551
76aa570c
PP
1552PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1553 SQL string expansion failure details.
1554 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1555
f1e5fef5
PP
1556PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1557 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1558
4d805ee9
PP
1559PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1560 extern declarations in function scope.
1561 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1562
cd59ab18
PP
1563PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1564 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1565 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1566 a kernel bug).
1567
332f5cf3
PP
1568PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1569 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1570
29cfeb94
PP
1571PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1572 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1573
660242ad
PP
1574PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1575 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1576
bc4bc4c5
PP
1577PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1578 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1579
2e64baa9
NM
1580NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1581 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1582 Dennis Davis.
1583
4c04137d 1584PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1585
6bac1a9a
PP
1586PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1587
552193f0
NM
1588NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1589 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1590
1b587e48
TF
1591TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1592 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1593
aa097c4c 1594
8c07b69f
TF
1595Exim version 4.74
1596-----------------
1597
1598TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1599 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1600
c0ea85ab
TF
1601TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1602 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1603
0761d44e
TF
1604TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1605
0a349494
PP
1606DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1607 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1608 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1609
1610PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1611 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1612 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1613
fea24b2e
PP
1614PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1615 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1616 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1617 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1618
6545de78
PP
1619PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1620 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1621 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1622 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1623
1670ef10
PP
1624PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1625 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1626 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1627 arbitrary files.
1628
c0886197
PP
1629PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1630 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1631
b7487bce
PP
1632PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1633 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1634 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1635 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1636 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1637
8c07b69f 1638
97fd1e48 1639Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1640-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1641
1642PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1643 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1644 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1645
6901c596
PP
1646PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1647 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1648
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1649JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1650
77bb000f
PP
1651PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1652
a29e5231
PP
1653PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1654
ec5a0394 1655PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1656
55c75993
PP
1657PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1658
453a6645 1659PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1660 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1661 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1662 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1663
8544e77a
PP
1664PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1665 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1666 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1667 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1668 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1669
83e029d5
PP
1670PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1671
ed7f7860
PP
1672PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1673
7d9f747b
PP
1674PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1675
4b2241d2
PP
1676PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1677
10385c15
PP
1678PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1679
dbc4b90d
PP
1680PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1681
532be449
PP
1682PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1683
6a8de854 1684PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1685 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1686 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1687
5dc43717
JJ
1688JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1689
1690JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1691 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1692
3346ab01
PP
1693PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1694 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1695
491fab4c
PP
1696PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1697 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1698 Notification from John Horne.
1699
13eb9497
PP
1700PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1701 compatible.
1702
1703PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1704 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1705 it normally works.
1706
7f36d675
DW
1707DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1708 access.
1709
c1d94452
DW
1710DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1711 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1712 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1713
e2f5dc15
DW
1714DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1715 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1716 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1717 configuration file.
1718
cd25e41d
DW
1719DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1720 option (effectively making it always true).
1721
261dc43e
DW
1722DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1723 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1724
fa32850b
DW
1725DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1726 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1727
79d4bc3d
PP
1728PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1729 run-time user, instead of root.
1730
43236f35 1731PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1732 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1733
fb08281f
DW
1734DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1735 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1736 arguments.
3346ab01 1737
74935b98
DW
1738DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1739 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1740 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1741
90b6341f
DW
1742DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1743
57730b52
ML
1744NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1745
66581d1e 1746
465e92cf
JJ
1747Exim version 4.72
1748-----------------
1749
453a6645
PP
1750JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1751 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1752 typos
465e92cf 1753
453a6645
PP
1754JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1755 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1756 (Finput)
edae0343 1757
9bd3e22c
NM
1758NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1759 Patch from Alain Williams
1760
bb576ff7
NM
1761NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1762
5a1a5845
NM
1763NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1764 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1765
981a9fad
NM
1766NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1767 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1768
7fc497ee
NM
1769NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1770
1a41defa
JJ
1771JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1772
a466095c 1773NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1774 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1775
94a6bd0b
NM
1776TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1777
1778TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1779
1780MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1781 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1782 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1783
c1b141a8
NM
1784NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1785 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1786
b26eacf1 1787NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1788 Patch by Simon Arlott
1789
179c5980 1790PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1791 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1792
9bd3e22c 1793
7c6d71af
NM
1794Exim version 4.71
1795-----------------
1796
7d9f747b 1797TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1798
f013fb92
NM
1799NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1800
0eb8eedd
NM
1801NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1802
663ee6d9
NM
1803NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1804
177ebd9b
NM
1805NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1806
7c6d71af 1807
210f147e
NM
1808Exim version 4.70
1809-----------------
1810
cdd3bb85 1811TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1812 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1813
1814TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1815 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1816 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1817
1818TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1819 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1820 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1821
1822TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1823 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1824
210f147e
NM
1825NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1826 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1827 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1828 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1829
deafd5b3
NM
1830NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1831 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1832 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1833
089793a4
TF
1834TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1835
5f16ca82
TF
1836TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1837
dae9d94e 1838NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1839 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1840
7d9f747b 1841NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1842
06864c44
TF
1843TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1844 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1845 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1846 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1847
65a7d8c3 1848NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1849 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1850
23510047 1851TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1852
7d9f747b 1853NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1854
7d8eec3a 1855NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1856 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1857
89dec7b6
TF
1858TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1859 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1860
a99de90c
TF
1861TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1862 that they are available at delivery time.
1863
e2803e40
TF
1864TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1865
7199e1ee
TF
1866TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1867 incoming_port log selectors.
1868
e276e04b
TF
1869TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1870 setting expands to an empty string.
1871
ce552449 1872NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1873 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1874
e765a0f1 1875NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1876 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1877
4f054c63 1878NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1879 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1880
7d9f747b
PP
1881NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1882 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1883
7d9f747b
PP
1884NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1885 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1886
b52bc06e 1887NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1888 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1889
447de4b0
NM
1890NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1891
4c69d561 1892NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1893 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1894
d5c39246 1895NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1896 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1897
0b23848a
TK
1898TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1899
8f3414a1 1900NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1901 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1902
fb6f955d
NM
1903NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1904
1905NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1906
7d9f747b
PP
1907NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1908 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1909
7d9f747b
PP
1910NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1911 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1912
7d9f747b
PP
1913NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1914 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1915
7d9f747b
PP
1916NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1917 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1918
7d9f747b
PP
1919NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1920 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1921
7d9f747b
PP
1922NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1923 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1924
7d9f747b
PP
1925NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1926 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1927
7d9f747b 1928NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1929 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1930
7d9f747b 1931NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1932
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1933NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1934 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1935
7d9f747b 1936NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1937
7d9f747b 1938NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1939
7d9f747b 1940NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1941
7d9f747b 1942NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1943
17792b53 1944NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1945 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1946
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1947NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1948 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1949
91576cec 1950NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1951 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1952
7d9f747b
PP
1953NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1954 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1955
7d9f747b 1956NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1957
7d9f747b 1958NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1959
7d9f747b 1960NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1961
7d9f747b 1962NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1963
deafd5b3 1964
47db1125
NM
1965Exim version 4.69
1966-----------------
1967
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1968TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1969 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1970 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1971
1972 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1973 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1974 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1975 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1976 build errors in sieve.c.
1977
81ea09ca
NM
1978NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1979 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1980 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1981
f13cddcb
SC
1982SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1983
7d9f747b 1984NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1985
7d9f747b 1986NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1987
7d9f747b 1988NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1989
1990
eb4c0de6
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1991Exim version 4.68
1992-----------------
1993
1994PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1995
6a3bceb1
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1996PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1997 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1998 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1999 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2000 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2001 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2002 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2003 for iplsearch lookups.
2004
2005 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2006 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2007 previously such lookups could never work.
2008
4c04137d 2009 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2010 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2011 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2012
2e30fa9d
TK
2013TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2014 version.
2015
0806a9c5
MH
2016MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2017 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2018 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2019 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2020 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2021 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2022
ae276964
TK
2023TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2024 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2025
0f2cbd1b
MH
2026MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2027 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2028 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2029 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2030 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2031 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2032
2b85bce7
PH
2033PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2034 local_scan API.
2035
93655c46
PH
2036PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2037
6c512171
PH
2038PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2039 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2040 encrypted.
2041
2042PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2043 by clients under certain conditions.
2044
aa6dc513
PH
2045PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2046 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2047
a96603a0
PH
2048PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2049
8f240103
PH
2050PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2051 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2052
2053PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2054
d677b2f2
PH
2055PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2056
d52120f2
PH
2057PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2058
64f2600a
PH
2059PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2060 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2061
8669f003
PH
2062PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2063
a4dc33a8
PH
2064PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2065 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2066
d6a60c0f
PH
2067PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2068
8f128379
PH
2069PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2070
8932dffe
PH
2071PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2072 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2073 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2074 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2075
ddea74fa 2076PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2077 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2078 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2079
ddea74fa 2080PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2081 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2082
ddea74fa
PH
2083PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2084
ce9f225c
PH
2085PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2086
19897d52
PH
2087PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2088
bc64a74d
PH
2089PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2090 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2091 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2092
eb4c0de6 2093
b4ed4da0
PH
2094Exim version 4.67
2095-----------------
2096
22ad45c9
MH
2097MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2098 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2099 Jan Srzednicki.
2100
b4ed4da0
PH
2101PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2102 issue a MAIL command.
2103
431b7361
PH
2104PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2105
2106 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2107
2108 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2109 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2110 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2111 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2112 item. This has been fixed.
2113
2114PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2115 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2116
83da1223
PH
2117PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2118 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2119
54fc8428
PH
2120PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2121 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2122 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2123
34c5e8dd
SC
2124SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2125
bbe15da8
PH
2126PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2127 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2128 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2129 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2130 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2131
0e8a9471
MH
2132MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2133 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2134 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2135
f0872424
PH
2136PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2137 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2138 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2139 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2140
b01dd148
PH
2141PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2142
6bf342e1
PH
2143PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2144
273f34d0
PH
2145PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2146 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2147 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2148 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2149 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2150
cf8b11a5
PH
2151PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2152
41c7c167
PH
2153PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2154 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2155 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2156 values).
2157
9c57cbc0
PH
2158PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2159
f3f065bb
PH
2160PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2161
047bdd8c
PH
2162PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2163
0ce9abe6
PH
2164PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2165
0e22dfd1
PH
2166PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2167
4c590bd1
PH
2168PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2169 no_callout_flush is set.
2170
09945f1e
PH
2171PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2172 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2173 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2174 fixed.
2175
c51b8e75
PH
2176PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2177
e28326d8 2178PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2179 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2180 other ACL rejections are.
2181
75b1493f
PH
2182PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2183 with slight modification.
2184
7c5214ec
PH
2185PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2186 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2187
4311097e
PH
2188PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2189 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2190 connection.
2191
29f89cad
PH
2192PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2193 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2194
5e687460
SC
2195SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2196
c3611384
PH
2197PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2198 expansion side effects.
2199
5a11a7b4
PH
2200PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2201 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2202 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2203 be the same.
2204
0e20aff9
MH
2205MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2206 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2207 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2208
ca86f471
PH
2209PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2210 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2211 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2212 were accidentally chopped off.
2213
a14e5636
PH
2214PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2215 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2216 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2217 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2218 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2219 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2220 pipelining has not been advertised.
2221
ec95d1a6
PH
2222PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2223
42855d71
PH
2224PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2225 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2226 This has been fixed.
2227
57c2c631
PH
2228PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2229 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2230 reported on Solaris.
2231
58c01c94
PH
2232PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2233 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2234 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2235 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2236 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2237 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2238 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2239
dee5a20a
PH
2240PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2241 cpus.
2242
d2ee6114
PH
2243PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2244
b2d5182b
PH
2245PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2246
79749a79
PH
2247PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2248 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2249 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2250 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2251 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2252 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2253
c456d9bb
PH
2254PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2255 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2256 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2257 host_all_ignored option.
2258
cd9868ec
PH
2259PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2260 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2261 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2262 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2263 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2264 is what is supposed to happen).
2265
ebeaf996
PH
2266PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2267 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2268 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2269 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2270 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2271 uses the Exim user.
2272
2679d413
PH
2273PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2274 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2275 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2276 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2277 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2278 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2279 users.
2280
84024b72
PH
2281PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2282
8005d38e
SC
2283SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2284 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2285 (Jez Hancock).
2286 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2287 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2288
3298c6c6
SC
2289SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2290
a43a27c5
PH
2291PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2292
58eb016e 2293PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2294 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2295 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2296 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2297 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2298 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2299 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2300 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2301 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2302 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2303 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2304
b43a74ea
PH
2305PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2306 advertised in response to EHLO.
2307
b4ed4da0 2308
5dd1517f
PH
2309Exim version 4.66
2310-----------------
2311
2312PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2313 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2314
2315 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2316 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2317
2318 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2319 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2320 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2321
2322 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2323 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2324 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2325 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2326 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2327
2328
93cfa765
TK
2329Exim version 4.65
2330-----------------
2331
2332TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2333 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2334 versions. (#438)
2335
d6066548
MH
2336MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2337 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2338 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2339
4362ff0d
PH
2340PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2341 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2342 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2343 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2344 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2345 rather than extend the field.
2346
93cfa765 2347
944e9e9c
TF
2348Exim version 4.64
2349-----------------
aa41d2de 2350
21d74bd9
TK
2351TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2352 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2353 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2354 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2355 these files.
2356
2357TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2358 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2359 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2360
2361TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2362 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2363 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2364
2365TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2366 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2367 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2368 in the field name.
2369
2b1c6e3a
PH
2370PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2371 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2372 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2373 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2374 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2375 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2376 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2377 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2378 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2379 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2380 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2381
1f872c80
PH
2382PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2383 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2384
2385PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2386 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2387 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2388 ignores EPIPE as well.
2389
d203e649
PH
2390PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2391 (quoted-printable decoding).
2392
cc2ed8f7 2393PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2394 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2395
ddfcd446
PH
2396PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2397
d45b1de8
PH
2398PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2399
2400PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2401
38a0a95f 2402PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2403 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2404
a2405d83
JJ
2405JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2406 in 4.64-PH/09.
2407
2408JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2409 miscellaneous code fixes
2410
6ea85e9a
PH
2411PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2412 rejections.
2413
26da7e20
PH
2414PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2415 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2416 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2417 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2418 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2419 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2420 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2421 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2422
14aa5a05 2423PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2424 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2425 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2426 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2427 function.
2428 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2429 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2430 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2431 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2432 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2433 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2434 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2435 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2436 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2437
ff75a1f7
PH
2438PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2439 decoding.
2440
e6f6568e
PH
2441PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2442 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2443 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2444 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2445 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2446 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2447 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2448 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2449
d6f6e0dc
PH
2450PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2451 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2452 list.
2453
322050c2
PH
2454PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2455 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2456 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2457 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2458 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2459 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2460 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2461 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2462 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2463 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2464 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2465 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2466 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2467
08955dd3
PH
2468PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2469 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2470 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2471 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2472 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2473 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2474 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2475
1eccaa59
PH
2476PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2477 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2478 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2479 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2480 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2481 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2482 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2483 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2484 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2485 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2486
602e59e5
PH
2487PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2488 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2489 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2490 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2491 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2492
411ef850
PH
2493PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2494 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2495 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2496 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2497 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2498 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2499 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2500
7befa435
PH
2501PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2502 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2503 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2504 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2505 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2506 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2507 been verified.
2508
48da4259 2509PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2510 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2511 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2512 and authorization.)
2513
48da4259
PH
2514PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2515 if any retry times were supplied.
2516
d1d5595c
PH
2517PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2518 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2519 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2520
0ef732d9
PH
2521PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2522
328895cc
PH
2523PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2524
fd700877
PH
2525PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2526 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2527 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2528 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2529 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2530 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2531
8dce1a6f
PH
2532PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2533 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2534
17af4a17
PH
2535PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2536 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2537 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2538
2539PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2540 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2541 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2542 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2543 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2544 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2545 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2546 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2547 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2548
2549 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2550 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2551 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2552 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2553 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2554 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2555 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2556 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2557 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2558
2559 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2560 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2561 hammering the server.
2562
c1114884
PH
2563PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2564 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2565
7a0743eb
PH
2566PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2567
0d85fa3f
PH
2568PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2569 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2570 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2571
1bf43b78
PH
2572PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2573 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2574 one case where this was not true.
2575
520de300
PH
2576PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2577 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2578 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2579 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2580 fails.
2581
48c7f9e2
PH
2582PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2583 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2584 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2585 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2586 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2587 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2588 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2589 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2590 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2591 smtp transport.
2592
99ea1c86
PH
2593PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2594 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2595 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2596 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2597
a2042e78
PH
2598PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2599 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2600
4fbcfc2e
PH
2601PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2602 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2603 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2604
aa41d2de
PH
2605PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2606
af561417
PH
2607PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2608
3cc66b45
PH
2609PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2610
194cc0e4
PH
2611PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2612 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2613 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2614 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2615
a401ddaa
PH
2616PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2617 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2618
4e88a19f
PH
2619PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2620 be meaningful with "accept".
2621
d7d7b289
SC
2622SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2623 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2624
2625SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2626 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2627 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2628
2629SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2630 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2631 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2632 there is data to show.
2633 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2634
2635SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2636 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2637 as well as the number of messages.
2638
2639SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2640 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2641 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2642
2643SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2644 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2645 have a flag are now skipped.
2646
2647SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2648 Added the -emptyok flag.
2649
2650SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2651 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2652
0ea2a468
JJ
2653JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2654 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2655 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2656
2657JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2658 match 4.64-PH/13
2659
2660JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2661 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2662
2663JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2664
2665JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2666 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2667
8a10f5a4
PH
2668PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2669
30e18802
PH
2670PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2671 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2672 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2673 contravention of the specifications.
2674
55728a4f
PH
2675PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2676 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2677 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2678
d7837193
PH
2679PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2680 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2681 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2682
87054a31
PH
2683PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2684
ea2c01d2
MH
2685MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2686 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2687 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2688 some point in the past.
2689
e4fa6968
PH
2690PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2691 transport during callout processing was broken.
2692
56f5d9bd
PH
2693PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2694 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2695
922e1c28
PH
2696PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2697 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2698
21eb6e72
PH
2699PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2700 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2701
a0540757
PH
2702PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2703
944e9e9c 2704
478be7b0
SC
2705Exim version 4.63
2706-----------------
2707
2708SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2709 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2710
2711SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2712 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2713 there is data to show.
2714 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2715
2716SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2717 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2718
2b965a65
TF
2719TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2720 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2721
45b91596
PH
2722TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2723 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2724
c59f5781
TF
2725TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2726 submissions from trusted users.
2727
90fc3069
TF
2728TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2729 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2730
6083aca0
TF
2731TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2732 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2733 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2734 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2735 there is now a framework to start from.
2736
765b530f
PH
2737PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2738 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2739 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2740
4e167a8c
PH
2741PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2742
4608d683
PH
2743PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2744
b8dc3e4a
PH
2745PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2746
5418e93b
PH
2747PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2748 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2749 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2750
b4a9bda2
PH
2751PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2752 libradius.
2753
45b91596
PH
2754PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2755 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2756 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2757
5547e2c5
PH
2758PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2759 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2760 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2761 its arguments.
2762
dbcef0ea
PH
2763PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2764 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2765 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2766 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2767 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2768
25257489
PH
2769PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2770 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2771
c816d124
PH
2772PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2773
a9ccd69a
PH
2774PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2775 operations in malware.c.
2776
75fa1910
PH
2777PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2778 signatures.
2779
a7d7aa58
PH
2780PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2781 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2782 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2783 all.
2784
42119b09
PH
2785PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2786 statements to "add_header".
2787
41609df5
PH
2788PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2789 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2790
a5bd321b
PH
2791PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2792 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2793 latter.
2794
e85a7ad5 2795PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2796 so that it is now:
2797
e85a7ad5
PH
2798 ${if or { \
2799 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2800 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2801 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2802 }{no}{yes}}
2803
e85a7ad5
PH
2804 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2805 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2806
d8fe1c03
PH
2807PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2808 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2809
16282d2b
PH
2810PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2811 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2812 any possible encoding problems.
2813
35d40a98
PH
2814PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2815 but not after initializing Perl.
2816
034d99ab
PH
2817PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2818 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2819 apparently, which is not desirable.
2820
6ec97b1b
PH
2821PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2822 queries.
2823
e22ca4ac
JJ
2824JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2825 --not options
2826
2827JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2828
33d73e3b
PH
2829PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2830 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2831 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2832 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2833
9ecb03f3
PH
2834PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2835 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2836 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2837
084efe8d
PH
2838PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2839 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2840 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2841 0.12.
2842
366fc9f0
PH
2843PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2844 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2845 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2846 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2847 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2848
c59f5781 2849
c887c79e
TF
2850Exim version 4.62
2851-----------------
2852
2853TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2854 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2855
1cce3af8
PH
2856PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2857 patch).
2858
afb3eaaf
PH
2859PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2860 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2861 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2862 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2863 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2864 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2865 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2866 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2867 451 error is used.
2868
e173618b
PH
2869PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2870
dd16e114
PH
2871PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2872 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2873 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2874
f7fd3850
PH
2875PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2876 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2877 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2878 odd errors.
2879
d87df92c
PH
2880PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2881 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2882
7e9f683d
PH
2883PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2884 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2885 option (which defaults to 0600).
2886
bfad5236
PH
2887PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2888
01c490df
PH
2889PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2890 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2891 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2892 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2893 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2894 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2895 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2896
d6629cdc
PH
2897PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2898
1cce3af8 2899
214e2000
PH
2900Exim version 4.61
2901-----------------
2902
2903PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2904 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2905 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2906 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2907 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2908 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2909 addresses as local.
2910
f9daeae0
PH
2911PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2912 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2913
7e66e54d
PH
2914PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2915
c8ea1597
PH
2916PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2917 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2918 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2919 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2920 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2921 grumble.
2922
911f6fde
PH
2923PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2924 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2925
47ca6d6c
PH
2926PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2927 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2928 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2929 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2930 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2931
ed0e9820
PH
2932PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2933 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2934 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2935 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2936
eff37e47
PH
2937PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2938 be the same on different OS.
2939
1921d2ea
PH
2940PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2941 testing.
2942
b3f69ca8
JJ
2943JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2944 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2945
2946JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2947 in 4.61-PH/06
2948
424a1c63
PH
2949PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2950 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2951 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2952 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2953 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2954 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2955 bounce message.
2956
7a100415
PH
2957PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2958 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2959 when Exim was called.
2960
19b9dc85
PH
2961PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2962 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2963
309bd837
PH
2964PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2965 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2966 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2967 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2968
59e82a2a
PH
2969PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2970 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2971 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2972 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2973 changes:
2974
2975 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2976 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 2977 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
2978
2979 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2980 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2981 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2982
9edc04ce
PH
2983PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2984 feature).
2985
1349e1e5
PH
2986PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2987 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2988 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2989 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2990 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2991 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2992 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2993 values from the SRV records were lost.
2994
ea49d0e1
PH
2995PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2996 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2997 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2998
064a94c9
PH
2999PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3000 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3001 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3002
727071f8
PH
3003PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3004 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3005 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3006 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3007 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3008 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3009 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3010 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3011 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3012 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3013
f78eb7c6
PH
3014PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3015 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3016 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3017
21c28500
PH
3018PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3019 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3020
3021PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3022 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3023 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3024 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3025 is given.
3026
1688f43b
PH
3027PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3028 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3029 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3030
3031PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3032 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3033 PH/23 above applies.
3034
9675b384
PH
3035PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3036 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3037 (for which there is an explicit test).
3038
6a3f1455
PH
3039PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3040
dac79d3e
PH
3041PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3042 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3043 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3044 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3045 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3046
5977a0b3
PH
3047PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3048 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3049 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3050 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3051
c91535f3
PH
3052PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3053 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3054 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3055
0d46a8c8
PH
3056PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3057
278c6e6c
PH
3058PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3059
2cbb4081
PH
3060PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3061 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3062 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3063
3eef829e
PH
3064PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3065 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3066 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3067 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3068 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3069
1ab95fa6
PH
3070PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3071 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3072 the message gets confusing).
3073
230205fc
PH
3074PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3075 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3076 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3077 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3078
75e0e026
PH
3079PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3080 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3081 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3082 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3083 same order.
3084
3085PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3086 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3087 the different processes.
3088
145396a6
PH
3089PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3090
3cd34f13
PH
3091PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3092
11121d3d
JJ
3093JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3094 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3095
3096JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3097 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3098
3099JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3100 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3101 messages matching specified criteria.
3102
8def5aaf
PH
3103PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3104
929ba01c
PH
3105PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3106 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3107
2632889e
PH
3108PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3109 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3110 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3111 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3112 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3113 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3114 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3115 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3116 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3117 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3118
944a9c55
PH
3119PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3120 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3121 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3122
4a23603b
PH
3123PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3124
4730f942
PH
3125PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3126 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3127 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3128 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3129 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3130 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3131 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3132 the variable.
3133
30dba1e6
PH
3134PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3135 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3136
382afc6b
PH
3137PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3138
a86229cf
PH
3139PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3140
50c99ba6
PH
3141PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3142
d35e429d
PH
3143PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3144 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3145 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3146 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3147 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3148 size of the count of files.
3149
f90d018c
PH
3150PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3151
75def545
PH
3152PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3153 used in LMTP mode:
3154
3155 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3156 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3157 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3158 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3159
3160 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3161 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3162 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3163
3164PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3165 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3166 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3167 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3168 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3169
c46782ef
PH
3170PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3171 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3172
71fafd95
PH
3173PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3174 will now be deprecated.
3175
2c5db4fd
PH
3176PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3177
9cf6b11a
JJ
3178JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3179 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3180 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3181
3182JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3183 with very large, slow to parse queues
3184
3185JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3186
3187JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3188
898d150f
PH
3189PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3190 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3191 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3192 SMTP output lines.
3193
46218253
PH
3194PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3195 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3196 Sieve code now uses this.
3197
e97957bc
PH
3198PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3199 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3200
81e509d7
PH
3201PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3202 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3203
3d240ff7
PH
3204PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3205
b37c4101
PH
3206PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3207 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3208 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3209 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3210 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3211
79378e0f
PH
3212PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3213 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3214 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3215 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3216
e49c7bb4
PH
3217PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3218
d114ec46
PH
3219PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3220
f3d7df6c
PH
3221PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3222 is preferred over IPv4.
3223
715ab376
PH
3224PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3225 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3226 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3227 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3228 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3229 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3230 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3231
6b31b150
PH
3232PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3233 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3234 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3235
3236PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3237
d515a917
PH
3238PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3239 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3240 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3241 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3242 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3243 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3244 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3245 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3246 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3247 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3248 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3249
9b8fadde
PH
3250PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3251 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3252 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3253
214e2000 3254
5de37277
PH
3255Exim version 4.60
3256-----------------
3257
cc38ddbf
PH
3258PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3259
3260 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3261 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3262
3263 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3264 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3265 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3266
72fdd6ae
PH
3267PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3268
3269 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3270 not a single digit.
3271
3272 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3273 string.
3274
3275 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3276 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3277 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3278 silly things.
3279
3280 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3281 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3282
3283 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3284 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3285
cb741023
PH
3286PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3287 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3288 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3289
f174f16e
PH
3290PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3291 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3292
c25242d7
PH
3293PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3294 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3295
3296 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3297
3298 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3299 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3300 this:
3301
3302 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3303
82c19f95
PH
3304PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3305 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3306 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3307 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3308 identical. For example:
3309
3310 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3311
3312 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3313 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3314 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3315
d7ffbc12
PH
3316PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3317 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3318 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3319 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3320
9f526266
PH
3321PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3322 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3323 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3324 message.
3325
87fcc8b9
PH
3326PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3327
3328 o fixes some comments
3329 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3330 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3331 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3332 and documents the missing references header update
3333
3334 and most important:
3335
3336 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3337 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3338 result)
3339
456682f5
PH
3340PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3341 Electronic Mail") by including:
3342
3343 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3344
3345 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3346 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3347 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3348 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3349 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3350
3351 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3352
3353 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3354
3355 The auto-replied keyword:
3356
3357 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3358 message by an automatic process,
3359
3360 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3361
3362 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3363 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3364
3365 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3366 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3367 other messages.
3368
3e46c1aa
PH
3369PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3370 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3371
49826d12
PH
3372PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3373
eba0c039
PH
3374PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3375 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3376 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3377
a0d6ba8a
PH
3378PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3379 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3380 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3381
f0917727
PH
3382PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3383 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3384 and treats the condition as false.
3385
096fee00
PH
3386PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3387
024bd3c2
PH
3388PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3389 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3390 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3391 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3392 not changing the active code.
3393
3394 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3395 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3396
3397 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3398 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3399
df199fec
PH
3400PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3401 (Bugzilla #53).
3402
d27f1df3
PH
3403PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3404 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3405 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3406 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3407 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3408 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3409 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3410 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3411 the text comparison.
3412
96776534
PH
3413PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3414 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3415 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3416 The same fix has been applied.
3417
5de37277 3418
9a799bc0
PH
3419Exim version 4.54
3420-----------------
3421
3422PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3423 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3424 It now does.
3425
99a4b039
PH
3426PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3427 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3428
3429PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3430
4b233853
PH
3431PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3432 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3433 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3434 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3435 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3436
8857ccfd
PH
3437TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3438 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3439 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3440 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3441 or /domain=).
3442
433a2980
PH
3443PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3444 testing suite.
3445
3e46c1aa 3446
9a799bc0 3447
e3a311ba
TK
3448Exim version 4.53
3449-----------------
3450
3451TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3452 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3453
13b685f9
PH
3454PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3455
395ff96d
PH
3456PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3457
5b68f6e4
PH
3458PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3459 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3460 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3461
1ab52c69
PH
3462PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3463 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3464 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3465
b07e6aa3
PH
3466PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3467 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3468 operating systems.
3469
254e032f
PH
3470PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3471 ${stat: expansion item.
3472
3af76a81
PH
3473PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3474 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3475
2548ba04
PH
3476PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3477 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3478 file for comments.
3479
b6c6011d
PH
3480PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3481
cf39cf57
PH
3482PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3483 setting.
3484
f1513293
PH
3485PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3486 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3487
727549a4
PH
3488TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3489
af46795e
PH
3490PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3491 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3492 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3493 the end of the subprocess.
3494
d7b47fd0
PH
3495PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3496 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3497 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3498 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3499 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3500
ee744174
JJ
3501JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3502
b582ab87
PH
3503TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3504
41a13e0a
PH
3505PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3506 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3507
f625cc5a
PH
3508PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3509
3510PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3511
21f7af35
PH
3512PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3513 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3514 HP-UX compiler.
3515
31480e42
PH
3516PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3517
2d280592
PH
3518PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3519 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3520 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3521
7cd1141b
PH
3522PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3523 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3524
3525PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3526 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3527
750af86e
PH
3528PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3529 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3530
3531 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3532 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3533
3534 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3535 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3536 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3537 contributed by a Radius user.
3538
3539PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3540 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3541
4304270b
TK
3542TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3543 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3544
750af86e
PH
3545PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3546 available.
3547
64ffc24f
PH
3548PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3549 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3550 received.
3551
5dd9625b
PH
3552PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3553 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3554 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3555 header lines when this was not necessary.
3556
5591031b
PH
3557PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3558
ba18e66a
PH
3559PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3560 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3561 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3562 exists".
3563
9cec981f
PH
3564PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3565 -bV or -d is used.
3566
aa2b5c79
PH
3567PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3568 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3569 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3570 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3571
48a53b7f
PH
3572PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3573
1c59d63b
PH
3574PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3575
671012da
TK
3576TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3577
1509d3a8
PH
3578PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3579
3580PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3581 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3582 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3583 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3584 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3585 settings.
3586
3587PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3588
2fe1a124
PH
3589PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3590 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3591 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3592 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3593 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3594 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3595 which is clearly wrong.
3596
8800895a
PH
3597PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3598
ccfdb010
PH
3599PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3600 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3601 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3602 subsequently added.
3603
1130bfb0
PH
3604PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3605 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3606
ebcb507f
PH
3607PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3608
c35e155c
PH
3609PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3610 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3611
95d1f782
PH
3612PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3613 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3614
fd6de02e
PH
3615PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3616 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3617
58de37c5
PH
3618PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3619 recipients, not senders.
3620
261cf466
TF
3621TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3622 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3623
3ee512ff
PH
3624PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3625
e08c430f
PH
3626PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3627
bef5a11f
PH
3628PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3629 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3630 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3631 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3632
7546de58
TF
3633TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3634
e5d5a95f
TF
3635TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3636 clock is set back in time.
3637
2e88a017
TF
3638TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3639 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3640
a5f65aa4
TF
3641TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3642 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3643
e7726cbf
PH
3644PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3645 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3646 (see PH/47 above).
3647
a7fdad5b
TF
3648TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3649 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3650 header rewrites.
3651
6af56900
PH
3652PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3653 type ("H").
3654
0925ede6
PH
3655PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3656
66afa403
TF
3657TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3658 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3659 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3660
0154e85a
TF
3661TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3662 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3663 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3664 helo verification defer as a failure.
3665
16f12c76
PH
3666PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3667 actual error message.
3668
bbe902f0 3669
e5a9dba6
PH
3670Exim version 4.52
3671-----------------
3672
3673TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3674
22c3b60b
PH
3675PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3676 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3677 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3678 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3679
06a9b4b5
PH
3680TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3681
c1ac6996
PH
3682PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3683 can still be requested.
3684
9c7a242c
PH
3685PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3686 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3687 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3688 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3689
87ba3f5f
PH
3690TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3691 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3692 circumstances, but probably never did.
3693
3694PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3695 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3696 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3697 in the header line.
3698
29aba418
TF
3699TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3700
fe0dab11
TF
3701TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3702 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3703
11d337a4
TK
3704TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3705
3706TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3707
415c8f3b
PH
3708PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3709 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3710 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3711 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3712 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3713 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3714
958541e9
PH
3715PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3716 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3717 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3718 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3719 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3720 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3721
c206415f
TK
3722TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3723 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3724
2a4be8f9
PH
3725PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3726 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3727
1cba11c5
SC
3728SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3729 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3730
4c04137d 3731SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3732
3733SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3734
3735SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3736
3737SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3738
3739SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3740
3741SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3742
1005d00e
TK
3743TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3744
3745TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3746 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3747 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3748
3749TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3750 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3751 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3752 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3753
9b4768fa
PH
3754PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3755 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3756 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3757
3758PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3759 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3760 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3761 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3762
0d7eb84a
PH
3763PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3764 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3765 to be made).
3766
3767PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3768 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3769 should work with maildirs and everything.
3770
40727bee
TK
3771TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3772 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3773
554d2369
TF
3774TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3775 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3776
1f922db1
PH
3777PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3778 function for BDB 4.3.
3779
ef213c3b
PH
3780PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3781
8ac170f3
PH
3782PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3783 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3784 involved.
3785
b1c749bb
PH
3786PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3787 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3788 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3789 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3790 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3791 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3792
4aac9b49
PH
3793PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3794 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3795 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3796 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3797 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3798 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3799 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3800 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3801
294520c8
TK
3802TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3803 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3804 details.
3805
5bd022fe
PH
3806PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3807 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3808
90e9ce59
PH
3809PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3810 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3811 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3812 test. It is now used for both.
3813
5ea81592
PH
3814PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3815 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3816 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3817 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3818 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3819 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3820
c6c2dc1d
PH
3821PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3822 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3823 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3824 string_vformat().
3825
fffffe4c
PH
3826PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3827 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3828 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3829
9a26b6b2
PH
3830PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3831 experimental DomainKeys support:
3832
3833 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3834 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3835 the control was given.
3836
3837 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3838
4aee0225
PH
3839PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3840
32d668a5
PH
3841PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3842
8187c3f3
PH
3843PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3844 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3845 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3846 db.h files).
3847
ff790e47 3848PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3849 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3850 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3851 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3852 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3853 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3854 course.
ff790e47 3855
5417f6d1
PH
3856PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3857 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3858 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3859 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3860 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3861 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3862
59cf8544
PH
3863PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3864 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3865 do -d+all out of habit.
3866
e7ad8a65
PH
3867PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3868 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3869 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3870
ade42478
PH
3871PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3872 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3873 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3874 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3875 record types that Exim uses.
3876
182ad5cf
PH
3877PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3878 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3879 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3880 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3881 non-existent file that was broken.
3882
b0d9fc80
TK
3883TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3884 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3885
3886TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3887 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3888 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3889
3890TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3891
47c7a64a
PH
3892PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3893 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3894 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3895 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3896 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3897 same time.
3898
a388bce4
SC
3899SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3900 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3901 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3902 at a slight CPU cost.
3903
3904SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3905 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3906
3907SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3908 by Marc Sherman.
3909
0793e4ed
SC
3910SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3911
c58b88df
PH
3912PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3913 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3914
e7ad8a65 3915
7982096b
PH
3916Exim version 4.51
3917-----------------
3918
1a46a8c5
PH
3919TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3920 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3921
2f079f46 3922TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3923
3924TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3925
3926PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3927 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3928
3929PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3930 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3931 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3932 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3933 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3934 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3935 file.
3936
3937PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3938 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3939 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3940 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3941 these two options.
3942
3943PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3944 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3945 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3946 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3947 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3948 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3949 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3950 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3951
3952PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3953 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3954
3955PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3956 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3957 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3958 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3959 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3960 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3961
3962PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3963 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3964 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3965 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3966
3967PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3968 Finch).
3969
3970PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3971 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3972
49c2d5ea
PH
3973PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3974 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3975 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3976 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3977 message.
49c2d5ea 3978
bf759a8b
PH
3979PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3980
83364d30
PH
3981PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3982 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3983
7999bbd7
PH
3984PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3985 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3986 to what was transported.)
3987
7dbf77c9
PH
3988TF/01 Added $received_time.
3989
74e0617f
PH
3990PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3991 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3992 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3993 spamd_address settings.
3994
2f079f46
PH
3995PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3996 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3997 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3998 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3999 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4000
8c841523
PH
4001PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4002
7766a4f0
PH
4003PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4004 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4005 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4006 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4007 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4008
8b417f2c
PH
4009PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4010 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4011
901f42cb
PH
4012PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4013 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4014 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4015 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4016 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4017 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4018 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4019 for failure.
4020
f9b9210e
PH
4021PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4022 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4023 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4024 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4025 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4026 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4027 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4028 "input=".
4029
54cdb463
PH
4030PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4031
cf00dad6
PH
4032PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4033 driver and ACL definitions.
4034
acb1b346
PH
4035PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4036 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4037
c5ddb310
PH
4038PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4039 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4040 understands it better than I do:
4041
4042 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4043 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4044
4045 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4046 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4047 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4048 => three warnings about OTP not working
4049 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4050
4051 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4052 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4053 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4054 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4055 for each call.)
4056 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4057 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4058
4059 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4060 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4061 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4062
31619da6
PH
4063PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4064 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4065 specified.
4066
bebaf0fc
PH
4067PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4068 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4069 "Linux".
4070
475fe28a
PH
4071PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4072 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4073 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4074
4075 warn !verify = sender
4076 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4077
4078 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4079 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4080
7e8bec7a
PH
4081PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4082
4083 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4084 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4085
4086 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4087 nomenclature these days.)
4088
e4a89c47
PH
4089PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4090 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4091
5ca2a9a1
PH
4092PH/30 In these circumstances:
4093 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4094 . First host does not offer TLS;
4095 . First host accepts first address;
4096 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4097 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4098 . Second host accepts second address.
4099 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4100 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4101 address.
7e8bec7a 4102
c688b954
PH
4103PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4104 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4105 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4106 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4107 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4108
fed77020
PH
4109PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4110 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4111
7fe1560f
PH
4112PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4113 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4114
ebb6e6d5
PH
4115PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4116 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4117 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4118
9c4e8f60
PH
4119PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4120 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4121 overlooked.
4122
4123PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4124
d7174846
PH
4125PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4126 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4127 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4128 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4129 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4130 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4131 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4132
4133 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4134 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4135 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4136 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4137 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4138
4139 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4140 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4141 routed further.
4142
cfe75fc3
PH
4143PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4144 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4145 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4146 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4147 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4148 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4149
be22d70e
PH
4150PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4151
0612b098
PH
4152PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4153 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4154 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4155 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4156 printable escape sequences.
4157
2e0c1448
PH
4158PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4159 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4160 body only.
4161
447d236c
PH
4162PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4163 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4164 are as follows:
4165
4166 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4167 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4168 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4169 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4170 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4171
4172 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4173 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4174 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4175
d20976dc
PH
4176PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4177
f656d135
PH
4178PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4179 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4180 play with."
4181
2e2a30b4
PH
4182PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4183 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4184 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4185 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4186 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4187 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4188 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4189 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4190 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4191 the log output.
4192
9176e9f0
PH
4193PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4194 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4195 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4196 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4197 "make".
4198
7982096b 4199
bbe902f0
PH
4200A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4201----------------------------------------
4202
4203Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4204changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4205needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4206in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4207that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4208release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4209from 4.43.
4210
4211I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
42124.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4213those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4214historical information.
4215
4216
f7b63901 4217Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4218-----------------
4219
5fe762f6
PH
4220 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4221
139059f6 4222 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4223 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4224
7086e875
PH
4225 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4226 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4227 place.
4228
35af9f61
PH
4229 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4230 filter fails to execute.
4231
b668c215
PH
4232 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4233 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4234 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4235 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4236 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4237
a494b1e1
PH
4238 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4239
4240 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4241 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4242 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4243 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4244
c5fcb476
PH
4245 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4246 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4247 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4248 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4249 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4250
69358f02
PH
4251 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4252
5be20824
PH
425310. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4254
eb2c0248
PH
425511. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4256 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4257 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4258 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4259
2a3eea10
PH
426012. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4261 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4262 sender verification.
4263
426413. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4265 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4266
23c7ff99
PH
426714. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4268
4deaf07d
PH
426915. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4270 connection timeout.
4271
926e1192
PH
427216. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4273 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4274
650edc6f
PH
427517. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4276 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4277
2c7db3f5
PH
427818. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4279 information about exactly what failed.
4280
3d235903
PH
428119. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4282
7c7ad977
PH
428320. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4284 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4285 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4286
981756db
PH
428721. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4288 It is now set to "smtps".
4289
d4eb88df
PH
429022. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4291 ignore_target_hosts.
4292
429323. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4294 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4295 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4296 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4297 "[x.x.x.x]".
4298
7d468ab8
PH
429924. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4300 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4301 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4302
430325. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4304 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4305 wake it up if nothing else does.
4306
62c0818f
PH
430726. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4308 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4309 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4310 end up negative.
4311
26034054
PH
431227. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4313 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4314
af66f652
PH
431528. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4316
90af77f4
PH
431729. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4318 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4319 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4320 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4321 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4322 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4323 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4324 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4325
d8ef3577
PH
432630. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4327 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4328 than one IP address.
4329
5cb8cbc6
PH
433031. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4331 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4332 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4333 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4334
14702f5b
PH
433532. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4336 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4337 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4338 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4339 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4340 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4341
063b1e99
PH
434233. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4343 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4344 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4345 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4346
652e1b65
PH
434734. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4348 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4349 respected.
4350
6f0c9a4f
PH
435135. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4352 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4353 $sender_host_address.
4354
33397d19
PH
435536. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4356 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4357 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4358 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4359 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4360 very small.
4361
7bb56e1f
PH
436237. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4363
4364 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4365 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4366
ea3bc19b
PH
4367 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4368 just the host names, not the priorities.
4369
4370 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4371 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4372 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4373
ea3bc19b 4374 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4375 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4376
0bcb2a0e
PH
437738. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4378 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4379 domain.
4380
2ac0e484
PH
438139. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4382
4e1fde53
PH
438340. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4384 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4385
de365ded
PH
438641. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4387 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4388 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4389
f05da2e8
PH
439042. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4391
d6453af2
PH
439243. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4393
f7b63901
PH
439444. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4395
439645. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4397 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4398 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4399 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4400 because the tests only now provoked it.
4401
a444213a
PH
440246. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4403 (this can affect the format of dates).
4404
0ec020ea
PH
440547. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4406 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4407 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4408 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4409
b1206957
PH
441048. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4411
441249. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4413 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4414 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4415 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4416
26dd5a95
PH
441750. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4418 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4419 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4420
343b2385
PH
442151. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4422 autoreply.
4423
1c5466b9
PH
442452. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4425 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4426 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4427 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4428 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4429 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4430 is going on).
4431
55ee9ee3
PH
443253. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4433 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4434 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4435 the line.
4436
d38f8232
PH
443754. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4438 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4439 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4440
4441 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4442 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4443 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4444 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4445 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4446 so I produce this patch..."
4447
3295e65b
PH
4448 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4449 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4450 is not defined.
4451
7102e136
PH
445255. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4453 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4454 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4455 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4456 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4457
3ca0ba97
PH
445856. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4459
c2bcbe20
PH
446057. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4461 long debug lines gets shown.
4462
18ce445d
PH
446358. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4464 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4465
1f5b4c3d
PH
446659. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4467
4468 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4469 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4470 of $primary_hostname.
4471
b975ba52
PH
447260. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4473 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4474 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4475 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4476 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4477 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4478 by change 4.50/55 above.
4479
4480 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4481 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4482 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4483 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4484 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4485 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4486 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4487
448861. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4489 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4490 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4491 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4492
17ffcae7
PH
449362. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4494 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4495
d95f9fdb
PH
449663. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4497 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4498 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4499 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4500 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4501
86b8287f
PH
450264. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4503 This has been fixed.
4504
60dc5e56
PH
450565. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4506 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4507 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4508 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4509 the caching.)
4510
533244af
PH
451166. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4512
a5a28604
PH
451367. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4514 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4515 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4516 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4517
7e634d24
PH
451868. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4519 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4520
3e11c26b
PH
452169. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4522 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4523 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4524
6729cf78
PH
452570. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4526 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4527 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4528 message there.
4529
00f00ca5
PH
453071. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4531 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4532 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4533
c9bdd01c
PH
453472. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4535 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4536 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4537 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4538
d43194df
PH
453973. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4540 during host lookups.
4541
fe5b5d0b
PH
454274. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4543 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4544
4545 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4546
76a2d7ba
PH
454775. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4548 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4549 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4550 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4551 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4552 background.
4553
455476. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4555 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4556
04f7d5b9
PH
455777. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4558 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4559 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4560
bc60667e
PH
456178. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4562
bb6e88ff
PH
456379. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4564 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4565 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4566 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4567 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4568 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4569 process earlier.
4570
1e70f85b
PH
457180. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4572 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4573 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4574 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4575 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4576
457781. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4578 tables).
4579
4e01f9d6
PH
458082. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4581
1ee1cef2
PH
458283. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4583 "vacation" handling.
4584
6e2b4ccc
PH
458584. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4586 OS variants using glibc.
4587
8e669ac1
PH
458885. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4589
495ae4b0 4590
bbe902f0
PH
4591----------------------------------------------------
4592See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4593----------------------------------------------------
4594
4595
4596Exim version 4.44
4597-----------------
4598
4599 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4600 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4601 transport
4602
4603 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4604 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4605 place.
4606
4607 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4608 filter fails to execute.
4609
4610 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4611 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4612 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4613 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4614 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4615
4616 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4617 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4618 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4619 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4620
4621 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4622 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4623 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4624 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4625 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4626
4627 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4628
4629 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4630 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4631 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4632 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4633
4634 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4635 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4636 sender verification.
4637
463810. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4639 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4640
464111. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4642 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4643
464412. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4645 ignore_target_hosts.
4646
464713. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4648 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4649 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4650 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4651 "[x.x.x.x]".
4652
465314. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4654 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4655 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4656
465715. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4658 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4659 wake it up if nothing else does.
4660
466116. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4662 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4663 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4664 end up negative.
4665
466617. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4667 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4668
ea3a6f44 466918. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4670
467119. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4672 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4673 empty pattern.
4674
467520. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4676 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4677 one IP address.
4678
ea3a6f44
NM
467921. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4680 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4681 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4682 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4683 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4684 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4685
ea3a6f44
NM
468622. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4687 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4688 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4689
469023. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4691 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4692 $sender_host_address.
4693
469424. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4695
ea3a6f44
NM
469625. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4697 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4698 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4699
470026. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4701 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4702
ea3a6f44
NM
470327. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4704 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4705
ea3a6f44
NM
470628. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4707 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4708 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4709 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4710
471129. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4712 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4713 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4714
ea3a6f44
NM
471530. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4716 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4717 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4718 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4719
ea3a6f44
NM
472031. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4721 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4722 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4723
ea3a6f44
NM
472431. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4725 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4726
ea3a6f44
NM
472732. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4728 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4729 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4730 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4731 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4732 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4733 is going on).
bbe902f0 4734
ea3a6f44
NM
473533. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4736 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4737 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4738 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4739 CAN-2005-0021
4740
ea3a6f44
NM
474134. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4742 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4743 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4744 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4745 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4746 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4747 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4748
4749 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4750 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4751 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4752 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4753 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4754 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4755 CAN-2005-0021
4756
ea3a6f44
NM
475735. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4758 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4759 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4760 CAN-2005-0022
4761
ea3a6f44
NM
476236. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4763 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4764 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4765 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4766 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4767
ea3a6f44
NM
476837. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4769 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4770 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4771 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4772 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4773
ea3a6f44
NM
477438. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4775 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4776 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4777 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4778 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4779
4780
495ae4b0
PH
4781Exim version 4.43
4782-----------------
4783
4784 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4785 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4786 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4787 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4788 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4789 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4790 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4791
4792 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4793 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4794 the delivery.
4795
4796 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4797
4798 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4799
4800 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4801 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4802 to local_scan().
4803
4804 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4805 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4806 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4807 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4808 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4809
4810 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4811 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4812
4813 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4814
4815 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4816
481710. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4818 header_sender only.
4819
482011. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4821 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4822
482312. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4824 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4825 affecting debugging statements).
4826
482713. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4828
482914. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4830 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4831 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4832 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4833 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4834 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4835 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4836 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4837 after the received time, and all would be well.
4838
483915. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4840 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4841 condition in an expansion string.
4842
484316. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4844
484517. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4846 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4847 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4848 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4849 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4850 job under whatever limits there are.
4851
485218. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4853
485419. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4855 space).
4856
485720. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4858 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4859 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4860 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4861 return path is set.
4862
486321. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4864 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4865 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4866 binary data in such strings.
4867
486822. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4869
487023. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4871 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4872 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4873 failure, which is pointless.
4874
487524. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4876
487725. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4878
487926. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4880 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4881 Sender: header lines.
4882
488327. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4884 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4885 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4886
488728. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4888 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4889 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4890 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4891 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4892 happens.
4893
489429. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4895 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4896 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4897 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4898 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4899
490030. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4901 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4902 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4903 1024.
4904
490531. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4906 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4907
490832. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4909 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4910
491133. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4912
491332. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4914
491533. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4916
491734. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4918 syntax error.
4919
492035. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4921
492236. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4923
492437. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4925 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4926 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4927 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4928
492938. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4930 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4931
4932
4933Exim version 4.42
4934-----------------
4935
4936 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4937 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4938 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4939 it was not quoted.
4940 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4941 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4942 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4943 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4944 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4945 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4946
4947 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4948 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4949 verification failure".
4950
4951 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4952 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4953 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4954 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4955
4956 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4957 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4958 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4959 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4960 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4961 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4962 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4963 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4964 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4965 treated as a timeout.
4966
4967 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4968 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4969 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4970 not set for Exim filters).
4971
4972 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4973 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4974 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4975
4976 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4977
4978 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4979 try to make them clearer.
4980
4981 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4982 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4983
4984 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4985
4986 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4987
498810. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4989 only the Cygwin environment.
4990
499111. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4992 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4993 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4994 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4995 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4996
499712. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4998 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4999 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5000 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5001 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5002 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5003 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5004
500513. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5006 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5007
500814. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5009
5010 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5011 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5012 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5013
5014 To: susanne@some.where
5015
5016 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5017 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5018 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5019 of addresses in From: header lines).
5020
5021 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5022 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5023 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5024
5025 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5026 treated as non-personal.
5027
5028 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5029 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5030
503115. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5032
503316. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5034
503517. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5036 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5037 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5038
503918. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5040 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5041
504219. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5043 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5044 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5045 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5046 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5047 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5048
504920. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5050 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5051 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5052 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5053 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5054 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5055 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5056 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5057
5058 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5059
506021. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5061 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5062
506322. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5064 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5065 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5066
506723. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5068 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5069
507024. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5071 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5072 rather than long int.
5073
507425. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5075
507626. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5077
5078
5079Exim version 4.41
5080-----------------
5081
5082 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5083 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5084 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5085 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5086 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5087 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5088
5089
5090Exim version 4.40
5091-----------------
5092
5093 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5094 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5095
5096 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5097 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5098 socklen_t is defined.
5099
5100 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5101 always exist.
5102
5103 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5104 configured.
5105
5106 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5107 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5108 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5109 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5110 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5111
5112 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5113 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5114 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5115 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5116
5117 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5118 of flapping under certain conditions.
5119
5120 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5121 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5122 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5123
5124 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5125
512610. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5127
512811. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5129 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5130 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5131 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5132
513312. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5134 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5135 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5136 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5137 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5138 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5139 preserved with the message after it was received.
5140
514113. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5142 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5143 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5144 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5145 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5146 test suite worked just fine.
5147
514814. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5149 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5150 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5151
515215. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5153 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5154 string.
5155
515616. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5157 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5158 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5159 does not fully solve it.
5160
516117. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5162 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5163 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5164 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5165 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5166
516718. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5168 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5169 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5170
517119. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5172 string, for example:
5173
5174 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5175
5176 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5177 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5178 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5179 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5180 the routers could not see them.
5181
518220. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5183 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5184
518521. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5186 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5187 output).
5188
518922. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5190 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5191 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5192 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5193 that needed quoting.
5194
519523. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5196 was not being matched caselessly.
5197
519824. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5199 backslashes.
5200
520125. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5202 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5203 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5204 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5205 when use_sender is false.
5206
520726. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5208
520927. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5210
521128. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5212
521329. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5214 the configuration file.
5215
521630. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5217 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5218
521931. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5220
522132. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5222 bytes in the message body.
5223
522433. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5225 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5226 delivery.
5227
522834. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5229
523035. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5231
523236. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5233 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5234 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5235 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5236 another IP address.
5237
5238
5239Exim version 4.34
5240-----------------
5241
5242 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5243 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5244
5245 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5246 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5247 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5248 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5249 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5250
5251 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5252 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5253
5254 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5255 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5256 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5257
5258 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5259 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5260 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5261
5262 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5263 for routers.
5264
5265 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5266 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5267 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5268 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5269 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5270 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5271 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5272
5273
5274Exim version 4.33
5275-----------------
5276
5277 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5278 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5279 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5280 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5281 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5282 default (and expected) setting.
5283
5284 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5285 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5286 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5287 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5288
5289 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5290 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5291
5292 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5293 in domain lists.
5294
5295 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5296 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5297 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5298 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5299 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5300 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5301
5302 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5303 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5304 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5305
5306 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5307 part (NOT match_host).
5308
5309 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5310
5311 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5312 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5313 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5314 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5315 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5316 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5317 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5318 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5319 the same named file.
5320
532110. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5322 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5323 when Exim is built.
5324
532511. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5326 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5327 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5328 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5329 a host name.
5330
533112. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5332 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5333 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5334
533513. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5336
533714. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5338
533915. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5340
534116. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5342 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5343
534417. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5345 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5346 before starting the TLS session.
5347
534818. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5349
535019. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5351 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5352
535320. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5354 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5355 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5356 colon in the middle).
5357
5358
5359Exim version 4.32
5360-----------------
5361
5362 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5363 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5364 multiple configurations are in use.
5365
5366 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5367 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5368 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5369 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5370 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5371 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5372
5373 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5374 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5375
5376 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5377 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5378 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5379
5380 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5381 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5382 occurs.
5383
5384 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5385 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5386
5387 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5388
5389 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5390 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5391
5392 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5393
5394 -prval:sval
5395
5396 is equivalent to
5397
5398 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5399
5400 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5401 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5402 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5403 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5404 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5405
540610. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5407 Exim's behaviour:
5408
5409 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5410 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5411 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5412 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5413 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5414 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5415
5416 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5417 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5418 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5419 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5420 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5421 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5422 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5423 string.
5424
5425 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5426 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5427 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5428 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5429 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5430
543111. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5432
543312. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5434 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5435 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5436
543713. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5438
543914. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5440 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5441 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5442 information.
5443
544415. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5445 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5446
544716. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5448 Three changes have been made:
5449
5450 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5451 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5452 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5453 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5454 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5455
5456 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5457 been restored.
5458
5459 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5460 the modified behaviour.
5461
5462
5463Exim version 4.31
5464-----------------
5465
5466 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5467 Larry Rosenman.
5468
5469 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5470 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5471
5472 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5473 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5474 try to track down a specific problem.
5475
5476 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5477 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5478 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5479
5480 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5481 warning.
5482
5483 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5484 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5485 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5486 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5487 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5488 some earlier ones do not.
5489
5490 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5491
5492 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5493 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5494 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5495 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5496 address literals are enabled, of course).
5497
5498 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5499
550010. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5501 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5502 by a command such as
5503
5504 exim -f "" ...
5505
5506 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5507
550811. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5509
551012. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5511 remained set. It is now erased.
5512
551313. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5514 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5515
551614. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5517 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5518 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5519 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5520 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5521 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5522 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5523 appropriate error code.
5524
552515. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5526 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5527 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5528 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5529 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5530 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5531
553216. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5533 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5534 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5535
553617. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5537 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5538 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5539 terminate the header.
5540
554118. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5542 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5543 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5544
554519. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5546 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5547 (4.30/29). In particular:
5548
5549 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5550 imposed.
5551
5552 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5553 to write a maildirsize file.
5554
5555 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5556 the transport, the new value overrides.
5557
5558 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5559 count.
5560
556120. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5562 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5563 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5564 space or a tab.
5565
556621. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5567 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5568 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5569 the fallback hosts.
5570
557122. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5572 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5573 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5574
557523. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5576 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5577 using a union.
5578
557924. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5580 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5581 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5582
558325. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5584
558526. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5586
558727. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5588
558928. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5590 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5591 become corrupted.
5592
559329. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5594 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5595 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5596 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5597 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5598 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5599 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5600 too great.
5601
560230. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5603 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5604 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5605 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5606 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5607 incorrectly.
5608
560931. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5610 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5611 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5612 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5613 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5614 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5615 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5616 cached value only when the same options are set.
5617
561832. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5619
562033. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5621 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5622 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5623 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5624 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5625
562634: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5627 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5628 it is clearly obsolete.
5629
563035. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5631 transport.
5632
563336. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5634 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5635 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5636 times.
5637
563837. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5639 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5640 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5641 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5642 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5643
564438. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5645 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5646 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5647 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5648
564939. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5650
5651 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5652
5653 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5654 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5655 2^31.
5656
565740. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5658 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5659 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5660 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5661 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5662 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5663 $localpart_data.
5664
566541. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5666 with the -f command-line option.
5667
566842. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5669 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5670 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5671 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5672 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5673 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5674
567543. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5676 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5677 line.
5678
567944. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5680 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5681 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5682 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5683 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5684 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5685 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5686 buffer is too small.
5687
568845. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5689 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5690
569146. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5692 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5693 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5694 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5695 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5696 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5697 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5698 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5699 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5700
570147. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5702 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5703 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5704
570548. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5706 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5707 ACL").
5708
570949. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5710 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5711 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5712 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5713 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5714
571550. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5716 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5717 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5718 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5719 is set.
5720
572151. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5722
572352. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5724
572553. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5726 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5727
572854. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5729 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5730 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5731
573255. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5733 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5734 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5735 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5736 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5737
573856. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5739 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5740 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5741 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5742 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5743 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5744 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5745
574657. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5747 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5748 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5749 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5750 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5751 the test of how many are available.
5752
575358. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5754 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5755 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5756 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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5757 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5758 new message is started.
5759
576059. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5761 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5762
576360. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5764 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5765
576661. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5767 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5768 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5769 is no long logged.
5770
577162. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5772 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5773 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5774 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5775 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5776 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5777 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5778
577963. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5780 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5781 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5782 interpreted as octal.
5783
578464. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5785 setting.
5786
578765. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5788 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5789 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5790 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5791 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5792 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5793
579466. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5795 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5796 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5797 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5798
5799 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5800 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5801 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5802 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5803
5804 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5805 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5806 is a bug fix.
5807
5808 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5809 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5810
581167. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5812
581368. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5814 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5815 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5816 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5817
581869. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5819 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5820 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5821 supplied", which is not helpful.
5822
582370. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5824 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5825 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5826
582771. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5828 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5829 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5830 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5831 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5832 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5833 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5834 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5835
583672. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5837 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5838 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5839 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5840 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5841
584273. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5843 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5844 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5845 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5846 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5847 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5848
584974. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5850 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5851 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5852
585375. Added write_rejectlog option.
5854
585576. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5856 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5857 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5858 variables.
5859
586077. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5861
586278. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5863 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5864 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5865 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5866 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5867 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5868 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5869 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5870
587179. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5872 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5873 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5874 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5875 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5876
587780. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5878 Haardt.
5879
588081. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5881 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5882 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5883 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5884 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5885 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5886 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5887 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5888 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5889
5890
5891Exim version 4.30
5892-----------------
5893
5894 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5895 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5896 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5897
5898 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5899 fixed.
5900
5901 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5902 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5903 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5904
5905 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5906 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5907 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5908 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5909 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 5910 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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5911
5912 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5913 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5914 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5915 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5916 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5917 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5918 the Exim test suite.
5919
5920 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5921 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5922 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5923 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5924
5925 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5926 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5927 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5928 specify it in this variable.
5929
5930 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5931 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5932 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5933 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5934
5935 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5936 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5937 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5938 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5939
5940 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5941 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5942 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5943 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5944 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5945
5946 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5947
594810. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5949 they are logged.
5950
595111. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5952 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5953 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5954 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5955 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5956
595712. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5958 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5959
596013. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5961 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 5962 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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5963 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5964 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5965
596614. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5967 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5968
596915. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5970 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5971 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5972
597316. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5974 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5975
597617. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5977 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5978
597918. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5980 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5981 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5982
598319. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5984 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5985
598620. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5987 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5988 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5989 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5990
599121. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5992
599322. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5994 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5995 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5996 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5997
599823. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5999
600024. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6001 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6002
600325. Added .include_if_exists.
6004
600526. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6006 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6007 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6008 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6009 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6010 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6011
601227. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6013
601428. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6015 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6016 this.
6017
601829. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6019
602030. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6021 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6022
6023 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6024 550 Sender verify failed
6025
6026 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6027 the final line of the response.
6028
602931. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6030 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6031 all other user lookups.
6032
603332. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6034 delivery time.
6035
603633. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6037 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6038 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6039 result into an int without checking.
6040
604134. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6042 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6043 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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604535. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6046 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6047 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6048 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6049
605036. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6051 correctly.
6052
605337. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6054 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6055
605638. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6057 to the empty sender.
6058
605939. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6060 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6061 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6062 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6063 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6064 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6065 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6066 panic log.
6067
606840. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6069 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6070 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6071 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6072 used.
6073
607441. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6075 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6076
607742. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6078 timestamps.
6079
608043. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6081 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6082
608344. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6084
608545. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6086 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6087 logs.
6088
608946. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6090 as soon as it is encountered.
6091
609247. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6093
609448. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6095 rewritten to "<>".
6096
609749. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6098 recognizes a tab character.
6099
610050. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6101 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6102 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6103 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6104
610551. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6106
610752. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6108 crash.
6109
611053. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6111
611254. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6113
611455. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6115 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6116 2822.
6117
611856. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6119 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6120 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6121 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6122 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6123
612457. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6125 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6126
612758. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6128 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6129 list (.included file names were always shown).
6130
613159. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6132 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6133 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6134 root at that time.
6135
613660. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6137 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6138
613961. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6140
614162. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6142
614363. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6144
614564. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6146 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6147 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6148 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6149 failures to open the logs.
6150
615165. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6152 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6153 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6154 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6155 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6156 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6157 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6158
6159
6160Exim version 4.24
6161-----------------
6162
6163 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6164 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6165 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6166 change 4.23/1.
6167
6168 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6169 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6170 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6171
6172 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6173 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6174 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6175
6176 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6177 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6178 causing some misleading effects.
6179
6180 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6181 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6182 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6183
6184 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6185 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6186 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6187 queue-runner function directly.
6188
6189
6190Exim version 4.23
6191-----------------
6192
6193 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6194 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6195
6196 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6197 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6198 was always written to the default place.
6199
6200 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6201 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6202 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6203
6204 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6205
6206 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6207
6208 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6209 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6210 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6211
6212 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6213 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6214 must start.
6215
6216 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6217 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6218 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6219
6220 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6221 command line option is disabled.
6222
6223 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6224 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6225
6226 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6227
6228 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6229
6230 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6231 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6232
623310. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6234
623511. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6236 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6237 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6238 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6239 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6240 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6241
624212. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6243 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6244 timeout.
6245
624613. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6247 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6248
624914. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6250 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6251
625215. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6253 received was valid base64.
6254
625516. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6256 name of the variable that was being set.
6257
625817. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6259
626018. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6261 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6262 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6263 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6264 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6265 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6266
626719. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6268
626920. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6270 nor realm was specified.
6271
627221. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6273 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6274 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6275 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6276
627722. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6278 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6279 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6280
628123. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6282 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6283 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6284
628524. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6286 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6287 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6288 some systems use these upper case variants.
6289
629025. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6291 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6292 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6293 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6294
629526. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6296
629727. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6298 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6299
630028. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6301 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6302 expansion variable.
6303
630429. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6305
630630. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6307 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6308 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6309 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6310
631131. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6312 using it.
6313
631432. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6315 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6316 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6317
631833. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6319 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6320
632134. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6322 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6323 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6324 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6325
632635. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6327 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6328 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6329
633036. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6331
633237. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6333 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6334 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6335 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6336 aborted.
6337
633838. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6339 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6340 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6341
634239. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6343
634440. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6345 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6346
634741. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6348 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6349
635042. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6351 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6352 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6353 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6354 when emails are that large.
6355
6356
6357
6358Exim version 4.22
6359-----------------
6360
6361 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6362 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6363
6364 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6365 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6366 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6367
6368 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6369 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6370 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6371
6372 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6373 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6374 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6375 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6376 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6377
6378 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6379 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6380 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6381 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6382 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6383 ever.
6384
6385 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6386 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6387 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6388 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6389 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6390 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6391 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6392 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6393 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6394 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6395 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6396 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6397 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6398 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6399
6400 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6401 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6402 parameterised it.
6403
6404 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6405 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6406 error should be diagnosed.
6407
6408 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6409 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6410 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6411 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6412 appeared instead of "NULL".
6413
641410. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6415 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6416 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6417 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6418 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6419 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6420 proceeds).
6421
6422 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6423 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6424 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6425
6426
6427Exim version 4.21
6428-----------------
6429
6430 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6431 or receiver verification errors.
6432
6433 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6434 name.
6435
6436 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6437 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6438 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6439 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6440
6441 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6442 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6443 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6444 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6445 shouldn't happen again.
6446
6447 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6448 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6449 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6450
6451 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6452 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6453
6454 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6455
6456 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6457 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6458
6459 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6460 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6461 RFC.
6462
646310. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6464 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6465 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6466
646711. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6468 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6469 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6470 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6471
647212. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6473 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6474 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6475 to define what should happen).
6476
647713. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6478 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6479 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6480
648114. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6482
648315. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6484
648516. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6486 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6487
4c04137d 648817. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6489 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6490 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6491 structure in all cases.
6492
6493 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6494 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6495 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6496 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6497
649818. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6499 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6500 domain name.
6501
650219. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6503 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6504
650520. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6506 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6507
650821. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6509 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6510 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6511
651222. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6513 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6514 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6515
651623. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6517 the book and for uniformity.
6518
651924. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6520
652125. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6522 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6523 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6524 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6525 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6526 non-existent command as the problem.
6527
652826. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6529 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6530 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6531
653227. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6533
653428. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6535 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6536 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6537
653829. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6539 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6540 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6541 timestamps using strftime().
6542
654330. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6544 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6545
654632. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6547 transport-time rewrites.
6548
654933. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6550 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6551 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6552 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6553
655434. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6555 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6556
655735. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6558 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6559 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6560 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6561 comma and a space.
6562
656336. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6564 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6565 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6566 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6567 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6568 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6569 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6570
657137. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6572 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6573 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6574 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6575 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6576
657738. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6578 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6579 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6580 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6581 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6582 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6583 remaining text gets split now.
6584
658539. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6586 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6587 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6588 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6589
659040. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6591 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6592 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6593 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6594 $return_path.
6595
659641. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6597 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6598 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6599 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6600 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6601 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6602 passed through if needed.
6603
660442. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6605 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6606 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6607 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6608 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6609 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6610
661143. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6612 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6613 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6614 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6615 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6616
661744. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6618 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6619 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6620 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6621 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6622
662345. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6624 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6625 noticed.
6626
662746. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6628 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6629 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6630 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6631 mayhem of various kinds.
6632
663347. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6634 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6635 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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6636 the right test for positive values.
6637
663848. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6639 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6640 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6641 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6642 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6643 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6644 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6645 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6646 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6647 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6648 envelope.
6649
665049. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6651 module.
6652
665350. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6654 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6655 forbidding it.
6656
665751. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6658 the existing equality matching.
6659
666052. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6661 dealing with inode numbers.
6662
666353. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6664 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6665 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6666
666754. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6668 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6669 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6670 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6671 local_scan().
6672
667355. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6674 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6675 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6676 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6677 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6678 relay addresses has also been removed.
6679
668056. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6681
668257. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6683 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6684 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6685
668658. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6687 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6688 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6689 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6690 processing applies to CR:
6691
6692 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6693 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6694
6695 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6696 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6697 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6698 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6699
670059. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6701 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6702 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6703
670460. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6705 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6706 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6707 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6708 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6709 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6710 arisen.
6711
671261. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6713 program routers.
6714
671562. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6716 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6717 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6718 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6719 adds:
6720
6721 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6722
6723 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6724
6725 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6726
672763. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6728 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6729 not considered personal.
6730
673164. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6732
673365. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6734
673566. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6736
673767. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6738 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6739 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6740 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6741 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6742 header lines, and spool format errors.
6743
674468. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6745 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6746 for more flexibility.
6747
674869. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6749 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6750 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6751
675270. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6753 Sabourenkov.
6754
675571. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6756 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6757 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6758 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6759 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6760 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6761 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6762 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6763 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6764
676572. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6766 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6767 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6768 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6769 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6770 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6771 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6772
677373. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6774 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6775 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6776
677774. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6778 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6779 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6780 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6781 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6782 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6783 instead of killing the process with assert().
6784
678575. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6786 than Unicode encoding.
6787
678876. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6789 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6790 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6791 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6792
679377. Added process_log_path.
6794
679578. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6796 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6797
679879. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6799 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6800
680180. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6802 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6803 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6804
680581. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6806 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6807 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6808 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6809 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6810 were applied:
6811
6812 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6813 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6814 as invalid.
6815
681682. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6817 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6818 they will be used during message reception.
6819
6820
6821Exim version 4.20
6822-----------------
6823
6824The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6825
6826****