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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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8Exim version 4.90
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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.
875512a3 28
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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
7d758a6a 66 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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68JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
69 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
70 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
71 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
72 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
73 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
74 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
75
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76JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
77 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
78 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 79 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 80
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81PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
82 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
83 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
84 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
85 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
86 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
87 processing options.
88
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89JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
90 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
91 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
92 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
93 connections.
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95PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
96 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
97 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
98 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
99 versions.
100
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101JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
102 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
103 inaccessible.
104
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105JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
106 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
107 banner-time rejection.
108
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109JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
110 callout/hold.
111
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9427e879 116JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 117 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 118
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119JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
120
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121PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
122 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
123
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124JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
125 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
126
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127JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
128 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
129 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
130 before acknowledging the chunk.
131
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132PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
133 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
134 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
135
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136JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
137 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
138 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
139 should.
140
141JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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142 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
143 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 144
bd8fbe36 145JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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146 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
147
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148JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
149 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
150 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
151 body hash calculated value.
152
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153JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
154 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
155 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
156
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157JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
158
159JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
160 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
161
162JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
163 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
164 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
165
166JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
167 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
168 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
169 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
170 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
171 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
172
173JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
174 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
175 past that check, despite the cost.
176
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177JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
178 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
179 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
180
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181PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
182 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
183 TLS library to consume.
184
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185PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
186
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187PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
188
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189JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
190 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
191 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
192 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
193 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
194 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
195 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
196
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197PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
198
199PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
200
201PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
202 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
203 should be warning-free.
204
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205JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
206
207HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
208 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
209
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210HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
211 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
212 general solution here.
213
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214PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
215 already-broken messages in the queue.
216
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217JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
218
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219JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
220
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222Exim version 4.88
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225JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
226 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 227
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228JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
229 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
230 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
231
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232JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
233 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
234 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
235 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
236 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
237 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
238 if one fails this test.
239 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
240 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
241
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242JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
243 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
244
23bb6982 245JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 246 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 247
0bd1b1ed 248JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 249 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 250
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251JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
252 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
253
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254JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
255 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
256
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257JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
258
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259JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
260 certificate).
261
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262JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
263 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
264 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
265 connection after a verify cache hit.
266 Do not update it with the verify result either.
267
268JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
269 when routing results in more than one destination address.
270
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271JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
272 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
273 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
274 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
275 when the cutthrough connection is made).
276
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277JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
278 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
279
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280JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
281 Previously they were not counted.
282
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283JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
284 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
285 that needed the lookup.
286
4c04137d 287JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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288 distinguished as "(=".
289
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290JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
291 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
292
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293JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
294
295JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
296 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 297
4c04137d 298JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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299 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
300
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301JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
302 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
303 compatible.
304
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305JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
306 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
307 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
308 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
309
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310JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
311
f59aaaaa 312JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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313 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
314 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 315
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316JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
317 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
318 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
319 be lost.
320
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321JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
322 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
323 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
324 itself :(
325
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326JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
327 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
328 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
329
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330JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
331 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
332 options.
333
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334JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
335
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336PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
337 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
338
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339PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
340 are not in the system include path.
341
ad7fc6eb 342JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 343 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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344 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
345 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 346
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347JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
348 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
349 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
350
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351JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
352
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353HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
354 an incoming connection.
355
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356HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
357 to rspamd.
358
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359HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
360 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 361
87cb4a16 362JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 363 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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364
365
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366Exim version 4.87
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369JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
370 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
371 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
372 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 373
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374TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
375 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
376
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377TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
378 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
379 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
380 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
381 outgoing I= field.
382
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383JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
384 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
385 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
386 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
387 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
388 check on the next write.
389
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390HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
391 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
392 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
393 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
394 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
395
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396JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
397 mime_regex ACL conditions.
398
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399JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
400 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
401 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
402
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403JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
404 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
405 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
406 an authenticate fail is not an error.
407
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408HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
409 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
410
4c04137d 411JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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412 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
413
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414JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
415 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
416 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
417 distinct.
418
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419JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
420
421JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
422
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423JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
424
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425JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
426 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
427
98b98887 428JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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429 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
430
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431JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
432
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433JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
434 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
435
436JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
437
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438JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
439 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
440
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441JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
442
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443JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
444 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 445 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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446 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
447 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
448 they will retry in-clear.
449 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
450 at installation time.
451
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452HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
453 with the $config_file variable.
454
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455JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
456 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
457 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
458 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 459 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 460
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461GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
462 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
463 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
464 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
465 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
466
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467JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
468
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469JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
470 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
471 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
472 list order is no longer honoured.
473
4c04137d 474JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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475 for DKIM processing.
476
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477JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
478 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 479
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480JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
481 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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482 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
483 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 484
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485JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
486 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
487
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488JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
489 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
490
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491JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
492 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
493
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494JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
495
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496JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
497 cached by the daemon.
498
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499JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
500 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
501
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502JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
503 keys are given for lookup.
504
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505JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
506 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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507 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
508 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 509
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510JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
511 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
512 server-side so match that on older versions.
513
07c73177 514JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 515 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 516 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 517
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518JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
519 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
520
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521JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
522 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
523 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 524 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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525 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
526 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
527 initial truncated version.
528
ab9152ff 529JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 530
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531JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
532
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533JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
534 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
535
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536JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
537
bc3c7bb7 538HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 539
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540JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
541 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
542 induced overflows.
543
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544JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
545 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
546 stage.
547
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548JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
549 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
550
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551JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
552 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
553 former class.
554
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555JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
556 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
557 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
558
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559JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
560 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
561 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
562 extraction. Accept either.
563
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568JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
569 expanded.
570
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571JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
572
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573JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
574 it.
575
01a4a5c5 576JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 577 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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578 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
579 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
580
cb1d7830 581JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 582 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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583 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
584
610ff438 585JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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586 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
587 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
588 TLS connections
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590JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
591 sites use this now.
592
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593JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
594 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
595 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
596 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
597 have a dsn_lasthop option.
598
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599JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
600 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 601 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 602
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603JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
604
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605JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
606 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
607
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608JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
609 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
610
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611JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
612 /defer_ok option.
613
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614JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
615 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
616
fd4d8871 617JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 618 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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619 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
620
621JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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622 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
623 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 624
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625JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
626 timeout value per server.
627
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628JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
629 now have the list separator specified.
630
8a512ed5 631JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 632 option values.
8a512ed5 633
82c0c8ea 634JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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635 under OpenSSL.
636
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637JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
638
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639JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
640 rather than the verbs used.
641
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642JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
643 from 255 to 1024 chars.
644
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645JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
646
cfab9d68 647HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 648 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 649
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650JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
651 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
652
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653HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
654 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
655
4c04137d 656JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 657
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658JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
659
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660JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
661 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 662 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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663 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
664
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665JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
666
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667JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
668 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
669
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670JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
671 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
672
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673JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
674
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675JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
676
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677JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
678
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679JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
680 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
681
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682JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
683 added for tls authenticator.
684
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685HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
686
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691TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
692 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
693 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
694 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
695 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
696 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
697 the script parsing/test process like normal.
698
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699TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
700 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
701 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
702 function when detected.
703
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704JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
705 cause callback expansion.
706
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707TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
708 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
709 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
710 instead of bool when processing it.
711
0f06b4f2 712JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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713 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
714
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715JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
716
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717JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
718
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719TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
720
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721TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
722 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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724JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
725 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
726 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
727 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 728 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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729 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
730
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731JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
732 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
733 exceeded it.
734
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735JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
736 version 3.3.6 or later.
737
4c04137d 738JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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739 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
740 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 741 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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742 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
743 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
744 option is defined.
774ef2d7 745
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746TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
747 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
748
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749JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
750 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
751 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
752 matches.
753
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754JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
755 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
756 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
757
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758JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
759 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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760
761JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
762 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
763 syntax errors.
764
3394b36a 765JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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766
767JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
768 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
769
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770TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
771 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
772 tarball.
773
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774JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
775
4c04137d 776JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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777 Bug 1561.
778
779JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
780 output list separator was used.
781
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785TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
786 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
787 return.
1f0ebb98 788
a612424f 789JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 790 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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791
792JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
793
794TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 795 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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801TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
802
803 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
804 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
805 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
806 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
807 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
808 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
809
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810TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
811 utilities have not been installed.
812
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813JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
814 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
815
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816TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
817 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
818
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819TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
820 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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821 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
822 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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824JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
825
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826TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
827 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
828
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829PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
830 not dns_use_dnssec.
831
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832JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
833
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834TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
835 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
836 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
837
8ddef691 838TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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839 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
840 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
841 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
842 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 843 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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845JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
846
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847JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
848 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
849
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850JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
851 failed delivery.
852
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853JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
854
511a6c14 855JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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856
857JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
858 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 859
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860JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
861 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
862
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863TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
864
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865JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
866
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867JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
868 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
869
870 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
871 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
872 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
873
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874TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
875 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
876 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
877 analysis.
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879JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
880
8c51eead 881JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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882 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
883 lookup).
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885TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
886 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
887 Schlichting.
35aba663 888
fd3b6a4a 889JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 890 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 891
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892TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
893 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
894
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895JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
896
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897TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
898 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
899 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
900
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901JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
902 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
903
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904JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
905 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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906 hosts_request_ocsp.
907
ed3bba5f 908JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 909 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 910 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 911
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912JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
913
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914TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
915 Christian Aistleitner.
916
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917JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
918
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919TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
920 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
921
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922JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
923 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
924
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925JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
926 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
927
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928TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
929 support and error reporting did not work properly.
930
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931TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
932 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
933
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934TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
935 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
936 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
937
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938JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
939
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940PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
941 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
942 Jasper Wallace.
943
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944JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
945
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946TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
947 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
948 CVE-2014-2972
949
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953
954PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
955
12f69989
PP
956PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
957 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
958
54c90be1
PP
959PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
960 by GnuTLS.
961
1f4a55da
PP
962PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
963 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
964 routines.
965
13363eba 966PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 967
66645890 968PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
969 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
970 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
971 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
972 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 973
a3fb9793 974PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
975 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
976 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
977 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 978 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 979 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 980
d27f98fe 981TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 982
6822b909
TL
983TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
984
e7568d51
TL
985TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
986 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
987
ae0e32ee 988TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 989 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 990 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
991
992TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 993
e2658fff
TL
994TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
995
83712b39
TL
996TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
997 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
998
976b7e9f
JH
999JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1000
be4a1376
JH
1001JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1002
ec4b68e5
PP
1003PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1004
d7148a07
NM
1005NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1006 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1007
585121e2 1008JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1009
2519e60d
TL
1010PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1011 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1012 function.
a5f239e4 1013
13d08c90
PP
1014PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1015 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1016
bef3ea7f
JH
1017JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1018 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1019 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1020
846726c5
JH
1021JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1022
3a796370
JH
1023JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1024
ea722490 1025JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1026 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1027
b1b05573
JH
1028JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1029 Bugzilla 884.
1030
362145b5
JH
1031JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1032 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1033
3c0a92dc
JH
1034JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1035 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1036
6d7c6175
PP
1037PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1038 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1039 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1040
6f123593
JH
1041JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1042 authenticators.
1043
c8e2fc1e
JH
1044JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1045 for control.
1046
005ac57f
PP
1047PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1048
3f1df0e3
PP
1049PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1050 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1051 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1052 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1053
67bd1ab3
TF
1054TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1055
1056 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1057 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1058 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1059 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1060 the retry rules.
1061
1062 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1063 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1064 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1065
1066 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1067 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1068 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1069 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1070
1ddeb334
TF
1071 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1072 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1073 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1074 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1075 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1076 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1077 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1078
1079 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1080 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1081
326cdc37
TF
1082TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1083
1084 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1085
1086 Resent-From: f
1087
1088 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1089 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1090 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1091 username as equal to the username.
1092
1093 This change corrects that bug.
1094
f62514b3
GF
1095GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1096 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1097 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1098
eb505532
TF
1099TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1100
14c7b357
PP
1101PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1102 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1103 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1104 NULL dereference and crash.
1105
94eaf700
PP
1106JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1107
6f5a440a
PP
1108PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1109 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1110 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1111
514ee161
SC
1112SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1113
fd98a5c6
JH
1114JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1115 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1116 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1117 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1118 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1119 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1120 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1121 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1122 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1123 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1124 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1125
035c7f1e
PP
1126PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1127 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1128
ff284120
PP
1129PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1130 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1131 Bugzilla 880.
1132
26e72755
PP
1133PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1134 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1135 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1136 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1137 an empty string is now equivalent.
1138
0fbd9bff
PP
1139PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1140 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1141 not performing validation itself.
1142
700d22f3
PP
1143PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1144 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1145
fcc8e047
JH
1146JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1147 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1148
4c04137d 1149TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1150
8c020188
PP
1151PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1152 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1153 other false fix of the same issue.
1154 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1155 Bugzilla 1363.
1156
d13cdd30
PP
1157PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1158 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1159
e2fbf4a2
PP
1160PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1161 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1162 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1163
f4c1088b
PP
1164PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1165 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1166 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1167
c5c2182f
PP
1168TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1169
73431ca9
JH
1170JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1171
2d07a215
TL
1172TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1173 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1174
a30a8861
TL
1175TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1176 Alexander Miroch.
1177
33382dd9
TL
1178TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1179 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1180 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1181 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1182 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1183
046172e6
TL
1184TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1185 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1186
581d7bee 1187TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1188 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1189 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1190
1191TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1192 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1193 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1194 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1195
237b2cf2
TL
1196TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1197
9fc5a352
TL
1198TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1199 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1200 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1201
b10e4ec2
TL
1202TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1203
e2cebd74
TL
1204TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1205 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1206 interaction.
1207
1208TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1209 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1210
2519e60d
TL
1211TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1212 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1213
e78e6ecf 1214
4263f395
PP
1215Exim version 4.80.1
1216-------------------
1217
1218PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1219 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1220 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1221
ea722490 1222
b1770b6e 1223Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1224-----------------
1225
1226PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1227 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1228 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1229
23c7e742
NM
1230NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1231
b322aac8
NM
1232NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1233 improved.
1234
4a891427
NM
1235NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1236
c1e794ba 1237PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1238
97753960
PP
1239PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1240
1241PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1242 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1243
df6303fa
PP
1244PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1245 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1246
7e6a8985
PP
1247PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1248 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1249
f1e05cc7 1250PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1251 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1252 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1253
4c287009
PP
1254PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1255
b98bb9ac
PP
1256PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1257 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1258
4a6a987a
PP
1259PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1260
c45dd180 1261PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1262
7db8d074
PP
1263PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1264 non-compliant senders.
1265 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1266
eae0036b 1267NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1268 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1269 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1270
dec5017e
PP
1271PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1272 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1273 in spool file corruption.
1274
c80c5570
PP
1275PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1276 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1277 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1278 "Got SSL error 2".
1279
076b11e2
PP
1280TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1281 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1282 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1283
5407bfff
JH
1284JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1285 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1286
9e45c72b
PP
1287JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1288
e74376d8
PP
1289PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1290 diagnostics.
1291 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1292
4c04137d 1293PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1294 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1295 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1296
7be682ca
PP
1297PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1298 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1299 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1300 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1301
ef840681
PP
1302PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1303 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1304
5bfb4cdf
PP
1305PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1306 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1307 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1308 resolver implementation change.
1309
c6e95d22
PP
1310PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1311 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1312
9cbad13b
PP
1313PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1314
9ee44efb
PP
1315PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1316
6a6084f8
PP
1317PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1318 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1319
12dd53c7
PP
1320PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1321 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1322
9e45c72b 1323JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1324 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1325
17c76198
PP
1326PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1327 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1328 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1329 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1330 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1331
53947857 1332PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1333
eae0036b 1334PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1335 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1336 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1337
9e45c72b 1338JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1339
7390e768
PP
1340PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1341 read-only, out of scope).
1342 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1343
08488c86
PP
1344PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1345 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1346 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1347 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1348
6475bd82
PP
1349PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1350
81f91683
PP
1351PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1352 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1353 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1354 real issues in debug logging.
1355
5779e6aa
PP
1356PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1357 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1358
3375e053
PP
1359PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1360 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1361 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1362
1363PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1364 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1365 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1366 problems.
3375e053 1367
9d26b8c0
PP
1368PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1369 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1370
57eb9e91 1371PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1372 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1373 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1374 needs to override this, it can.
1375
16880d1a
PP
1376PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1377 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1378 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1379
a799883d
PP
1380PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1381 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1382 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1383 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1384
3ecab157 1385PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1386
0599f9cf 1387
867fcbf5
PP
1388Exim version 4.77
1389-----------------
1390
1391PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1392 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1393
f1a29782
TF
1394TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1395
ab42bd23
TK
1396TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1397 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1398
0ca0cf52
TF
1399TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1400 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1401
921b12ca
TF
1402TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1403 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1404 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1405
1406 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1407 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1408 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1409 not safe for signals.
1410
1411 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1412 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1413 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1414 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1415 exiwhat.
1416
c99ce5c9
TF
1417TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1418
1419 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1420 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1421 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1422 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1423 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1424
1425 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1426 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1427 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1428 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1429 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1430 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1431
1432 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1433 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1434 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1435 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1436
1437 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1438 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1439 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1440 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1441
1442 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1443 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1444 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1445 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1446 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1447 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1448 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1449 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1450 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1451
1452 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1453 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1454 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1455 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1456
1457 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1458 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1459 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1460 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1461 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1462 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1463 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1464 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1465 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1466 details in the main documentation.
1467
3634fc25
TF
1468TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1469
792e8a19
TF
1470TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1471
5901f0ab
TF
1472TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1473 repository when doing development or release builds.
1474
7f2a2a43
PP
1475PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1476 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1477
061b7ebd
PP
1478PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1479 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1480 Bugzilla 97.
1481
e12f8c32
PP
1482PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1483
9e949f00 1484PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1485 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1486
1487PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1488 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1489
555ae6af 1490PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1491 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1492
1493PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1494 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1495
6f7fe114
PP
1496PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1497 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1498
c566dd90
PP
1499PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1500 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1501 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1502 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1503
d6cc7c78 1504PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1505 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1506 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1507
0d0e4455
PP
1508PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1509
3399bb60 1510PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1511
1512PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1513 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1514
0ca0cf52 1515
10906672
PP
1516Exim version 4.76
1517-----------------
1518
1519PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1520
754a0503
PP
1521PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1522 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1523
c0c7b2da
PP
1524PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1525
e97d1f08
PP
1526PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1527
084c1d8c
PP
1528PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1529 Bugzilla 1098.
1530
4e7ee012
PP
1531PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1532 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1533
c8d52a00
PP
1534TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1535 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1536
54e7ce4a
PP
1537PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1538 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1539
5ee6f336
PP
1540PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1541 Bugzilla 1104.
1542
c8d52a00 1543TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1544 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1545
1546TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1547 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1548 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1549 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1550
1551PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1552 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1553
10906672 1554
aa097c4c
NM
1555Exim version 4.75
1556-----------------
1557
4c04137d 1558NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1559 Bugzilla 1073
1560
7f3d9eff
TF
1561TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1562 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1563 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1564
159f52d2
TF
1565TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1566 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1567
0cc9542a
PP
1568PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1569 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1570 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1571
f7274286
PP
1572PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1573 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1574
7b797365
PP
1575PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1576 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1577
caacae52
NM
1578NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1579 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1580
09dcaba9
NM
1581NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1582 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1583
bc19a55b
PP
1584PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1585 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1586
bd4c9759
NM
1587NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1588 Fixes bug 943.
1589
b72aab72
PP
1590PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1591 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1592
2fe76745
PP
1593PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1594 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1595
76aa570c
PP
1596PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1597 SQL string expansion failure details.
1598 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1599
f1e5fef5
PP
1600PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1601 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1602
4d805ee9
PP
1603PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1604 extern declarations in function scope.
1605 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1606
cd59ab18
PP
1607PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1608 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1609 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1610 a kernel bug).
1611
332f5cf3
PP
1612PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1613 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1614
29cfeb94
PP
1615PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1616 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1617
660242ad
PP
1618PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1619 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1620
bc4bc4c5
PP
1621PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1622 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1623
2e64baa9
NM
1624NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1625 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1626 Dennis Davis.
1627
4c04137d 1628PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1629
6bac1a9a
PP
1630PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1631
552193f0
NM
1632NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1633 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1634
1b587e48
TF
1635TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1636 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1637
aa097c4c 1638
8c07b69f
TF
1639Exim version 4.74
1640-----------------
1641
1642TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1643 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1644
c0ea85ab
TF
1645TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1646 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1647
0761d44e
TF
1648TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1649
0a349494
PP
1650DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1651 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1652 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1653
1654PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1655 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1656 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1657
fea24b2e
PP
1658PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1659 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1660 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1661 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1662
6545de78
PP
1663PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1664 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1665 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1666 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1667
1670ef10
PP
1668PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1669 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1670 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1671 arbitrary files.
1672
c0886197
PP
1673PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1674 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1675
b7487bce
PP
1676PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1677 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1678 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1679 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1680 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1681
8c07b69f 1682
97fd1e48 1683Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1684-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1685
1686PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1687 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1688 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1689
6901c596
PP
1690PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1691 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1692
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1693JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1694
77bb000f
PP
1695PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1696
a29e5231
PP
1697PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1698
ec5a0394 1699PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1700
55c75993
PP
1701PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1702
453a6645 1703PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1704 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1705 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1706 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1707
8544e77a
PP
1708PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1709 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1710 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1711 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1712 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1713
83e029d5
PP
1714PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1715
ed7f7860
PP
1716PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1717
7d9f747b
PP
1718PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1719
4b2241d2
PP
1720PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1721
10385c15
PP
1722PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1723
dbc4b90d
PP
1724PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1725
532be449
PP
1726PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1727
6a8de854 1728PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1729 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1730 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1731
5dc43717
JJ
1732JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1733
1734JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1735 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1736
3346ab01
PP
1737PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1738 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1739
491fab4c
PP
1740PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1741 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1742 Notification from John Horne.
1743
13eb9497
PP
1744PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1745 compatible.
1746
1747PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1748 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1749 it normally works.
1750
7f36d675
DW
1751DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1752 access.
1753
c1d94452
DW
1754DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1755 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1756 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1757
e2f5dc15
DW
1758DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1759 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1760 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1761 configuration file.
1762
cd25e41d
DW
1763DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1764 option (effectively making it always true).
1765
261dc43e
DW
1766DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1767 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1768
fa32850b
DW
1769DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1770 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1771
79d4bc3d
PP
1772PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1773 run-time user, instead of root.
1774
43236f35 1775PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1776 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1777
fb08281f
DW
1778DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1779 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1780 arguments.
3346ab01 1781
74935b98
DW
1782DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1783 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1784 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1785
90b6341f
DW
1786DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1787
57730b52
ML
1788NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1789
66581d1e 1790
465e92cf
JJ
1791Exim version 4.72
1792-----------------
1793
453a6645
PP
1794JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1795 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1796 typos
465e92cf 1797
453a6645
PP
1798JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1799 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1800 (Finput)
edae0343 1801
9bd3e22c
NM
1802NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1803 Patch from Alain Williams
1804
bb576ff7
NM
1805NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1806
5a1a5845
NM
1807NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1808 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1809
981a9fad
NM
1810NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1811 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1812
7fc497ee
NM
1813NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1814
1a41defa
JJ
1815JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1816
a466095c 1817NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1818 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1819
94a6bd0b
NM
1820TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1821
1822TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1823
1824MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1825 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1826 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1827
c1b141a8
NM
1828NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1829 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1830
b26eacf1 1831NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1832 Patch by Simon Arlott
1833
179c5980 1834PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1835 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1836
9bd3e22c 1837
7c6d71af
NM
1838Exim version 4.71
1839-----------------
1840
7d9f747b 1841TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1842
f013fb92
NM
1843NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1844
0eb8eedd
NM
1845NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1846
663ee6d9
NM
1847NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1848
177ebd9b
NM
1849NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1850
7c6d71af 1851
210f147e
NM
1852Exim version 4.70
1853-----------------
1854
cdd3bb85 1855TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1856 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1857
1858TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1859 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1860 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1861
1862TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1863 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1864 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1865
1866TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1867 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1868
210f147e
NM
1869NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1870 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1871 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1872 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1873
deafd5b3
NM
1874NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1875 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1876 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1877
089793a4
TF
1878TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1879
5f16ca82
TF
1880TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1881
dae9d94e 1882NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1883 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1884
7d9f747b 1885NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1886
06864c44
TF
1887TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1888 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1889 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1890 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1891
65a7d8c3 1892NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1893 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1894
23510047 1895TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1896
7d9f747b 1897NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1898
7d8eec3a 1899NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1900 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1901
89dec7b6
TF
1902TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1903 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1904
a99de90c
TF
1905TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1906 that they are available at delivery time.
1907
e2803e40
TF
1908TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1909
7199e1ee
TF
1910TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1911 incoming_port log selectors.
1912
e276e04b
TF
1913TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1914 setting expands to an empty string.
1915
ce552449 1916NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1917 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1918
e765a0f1 1919NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1920 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1921
4f054c63 1922NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1923 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1924
7d9f747b
PP
1925NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1926 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1927
7d9f747b
PP
1928NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1929 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1930
b52bc06e 1931NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1932 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1933
447de4b0
NM
1934NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1935
4c69d561 1936NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1937 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1938
d5c39246 1939NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1940 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1941
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TK
1942TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1943
8f3414a1 1944NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1945 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1946
fb6f955d
NM
1947NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1948
1949NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1950
7d9f747b
PP
1951NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1952 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1953
7d9f747b
PP
1954NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1955 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1956
7d9f747b
PP
1957NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1958 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1959
7d9f747b
PP
1960NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1961 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1962
7d9f747b
PP
1963NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1964 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1965
7d9f747b
PP
1966NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1967 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1968
7d9f747b
PP
1969NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1970 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1971
7d9f747b 1972NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1973 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1974
7d9f747b 1975NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1976
7d9f747b
PP
1977NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1978 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1979
7d9f747b 1980NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1981
7d9f747b 1982NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1983
7d9f747b 1984NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1985
7d9f747b 1986NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1987
17792b53 1988NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1989 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1990
7d9f747b
PP
1991NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1992 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1993
91576cec 1994NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1995 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1996
7d9f747b
PP
1997NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1998 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1999
7d9f747b 2000NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2001
7d9f747b 2002NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2003
7d9f747b 2004NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2005
7d9f747b 2006NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2007
deafd5b3 2008
47db1125
NM
2009Exim version 4.69
2010-----------------
2011
4b3504d0
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2012TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2013 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2014 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2015
2016 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2017 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2018 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2019 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2020 build errors in sieve.c.
2021
81ea09ca
NM
2022NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2023 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2024 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2025
f13cddcb
SC
2026SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2027
7d9f747b 2028NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2029
7d9f747b 2030NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2031
7d9f747b 2032NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2033
2034
eb4c0de6
PH
2035Exim version 4.68
2036-----------------
2037
2038PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2039
6a3bceb1
PH
2040PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2041 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2042 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2043 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2044 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2045 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2046 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2047 for iplsearch lookups.
2048
2049 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2050 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2051 previously such lookups could never work.
2052
4c04137d 2053 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2054 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2055 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2056
2e30fa9d
TK
2057TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2058 version.
2059
0806a9c5
MH
2060MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2061 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2062 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2063 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2064 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2065 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2066
ae276964
TK
2067TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2068 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2069
0f2cbd1b
MH
2070MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2071 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2072 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2073 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2074 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2075 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2076
2b85bce7
PH
2077PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2078 local_scan API.
2079
93655c46
PH
2080PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2081
6c512171
PH
2082PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2083 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2084 encrypted.
2085
2086PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2087 by clients under certain conditions.
2088
aa6dc513
PH
2089PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2090 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2091
a96603a0
PH
2092PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2093
8f240103
PH
2094PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2095 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2096
2097PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2098
d677b2f2
PH
2099PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2100
d52120f2
PH
2101PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2102
64f2600a
PH
2103PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2104 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2105
8669f003
PH
2106PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2107
a4dc33a8
PH
2108PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2109 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2110
d6a60c0f
PH
2111PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2112
8f128379
PH
2113PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2114
8932dffe
PH
2115PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2116 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2117 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2118 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2119
ddea74fa 2120PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2121 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2122 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2123
ddea74fa 2124PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2125 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2126
ddea74fa
PH
2127PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2128
ce9f225c
PH
2129PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2130
19897d52
PH
2131PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2132
bc64a74d
PH
2133PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2134 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2135 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2136
eb4c0de6 2137
b4ed4da0
PH
2138Exim version 4.67
2139-----------------
2140
22ad45c9
MH
2141MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2142 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2143 Jan Srzednicki.
2144
b4ed4da0
PH
2145PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2146 issue a MAIL command.
2147
431b7361
PH
2148PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2149
2150 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2151
2152 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2153 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2154 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2155 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2156 item. This has been fixed.
2157
2158PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2159 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2160
83da1223
PH
2161PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2162 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2163
54fc8428
PH
2164PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2165 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2166 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2167
34c5e8dd
SC
2168SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2169
bbe15da8
PH
2170PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2171 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2172 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2173 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2174 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2175
0e8a9471
MH
2176MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2177 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2178 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2179
f0872424
PH
2180PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2181 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2182 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2183 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2184
b01dd148
PH
2185PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2186
6bf342e1
PH
2187PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2188
273f34d0
PH
2189PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2190 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2191 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2192 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2193 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2194
cf8b11a5
PH
2195PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2196
41c7c167
PH
2197PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2198 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2199 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2200 values).
2201
9c57cbc0
PH
2202PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2203
f3f065bb
PH
2204PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2205
047bdd8c
PH
2206PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2207
0ce9abe6
PH
2208PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2209
0e22dfd1
PH
2210PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2211
4c590bd1
PH
2212PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2213 no_callout_flush is set.
2214
09945f1e
PH
2215PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2216 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2217 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2218 fixed.
2219
c51b8e75
PH
2220PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2221
e28326d8 2222PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2223 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2224 other ACL rejections are.
2225
75b1493f
PH
2226PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2227 with slight modification.
2228
7c5214ec
PH
2229PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2230 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2231
4311097e
PH
2232PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2233 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2234 connection.
2235
29f89cad
PH
2236PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2237 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2238
5e687460
SC
2239SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2240
c3611384
PH
2241PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2242 expansion side effects.
2243
5a11a7b4
PH
2244PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2245 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2246 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2247 be the same.
2248
0e20aff9
MH
2249MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2250 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2251 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2252
ca86f471
PH
2253PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2254 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2255 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2256 were accidentally chopped off.
2257
a14e5636
PH
2258PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2259 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2260 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2261 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2262 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2263 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2264 pipelining has not been advertised.
2265
ec95d1a6
PH
2266PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2267
42855d71
PH
2268PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2269 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2270 This has been fixed.
2271
57c2c631
PH
2272PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2273 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2274 reported on Solaris.
2275
58c01c94
PH
2276PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2277 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2278 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2279 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2280 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2281 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2282 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2283
dee5a20a
PH
2284PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2285 cpus.
2286
d2ee6114
PH
2287PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2288
b2d5182b
PH
2289PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2290
79749a79
PH
2291PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2292 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2293 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2294 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2295 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2296 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2297
c456d9bb
PH
2298PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2299 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2300 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2301 host_all_ignored option.
2302
cd9868ec
PH
2303PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2304 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2305 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2306 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2307 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2308 is what is supposed to happen).
2309
ebeaf996
PH
2310PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2311 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2312 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2313 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2314 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2315 uses the Exim user.
2316
2679d413
PH
2317PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2318 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2319 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2320 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2321 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2322 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2323 users.
2324
84024b72
PH
2325PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2326
8005d38e
SC
2327SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2328 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2329 (Jez Hancock).
2330 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2331 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2332
3298c6c6
SC
2333SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2334
a43a27c5
PH
2335PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2336
58eb016e 2337PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2338 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2339 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2340 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2341 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2342 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2343 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2344 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2345 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2346 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2347 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2348
b43a74ea
PH
2349PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2350 advertised in response to EHLO.
2351
b4ed4da0 2352
5dd1517f
PH
2353Exim version 4.66
2354-----------------
2355
2356PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2357 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2358
2359 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2360 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2361
2362 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2363 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2364 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2365
2366 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2367 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2368 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2369 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2370 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2371
2372
93cfa765
TK
2373Exim version 4.65
2374-----------------
2375
2376TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2377 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2378 versions. (#438)
2379
d6066548
MH
2380MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2381 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2382 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2383
4362ff0d
PH
2384PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2385 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2386 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2387 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2388 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2389 rather than extend the field.
2390
93cfa765 2391
944e9e9c
TF
2392Exim version 4.64
2393-----------------
aa41d2de 2394
21d74bd9
TK
2395TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2396 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2397 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2398 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2399 these files.
2400
2401TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2402 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2403 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2404
2405TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2406 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2407 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2408
2409TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2410 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2411 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2412 in the field name.
2413
2b1c6e3a
PH
2414PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2415 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2416 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2417 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2418 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2419 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2420 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2421 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2422 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2423 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2424 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2425
1f872c80
PH
2426PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2427 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2428
2429PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2430 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2431 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2432 ignores EPIPE as well.
2433
d203e649
PH
2434PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2435 (quoted-printable decoding).
2436
cc2ed8f7 2437PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2438 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2439
ddfcd446
PH
2440PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2441
d45b1de8
PH
2442PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2443
2444PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2445
38a0a95f 2446PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2447 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2448
a2405d83
JJ
2449JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2450 in 4.64-PH/09.
2451
2452JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2453 miscellaneous code fixes
2454
6ea85e9a
PH
2455PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2456 rejections.
2457
26da7e20
PH
2458PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2459 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2460 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2461 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2462 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2463 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2464 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2465 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2466
14aa5a05 2467PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2468 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2469 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2470 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2471 function.
2472 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2473 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2474 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2475 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2476 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2477 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2478 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2479 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2480 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2481
ff75a1f7
PH
2482PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2483 decoding.
2484
e6f6568e
PH
2485PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2486 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2487 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2488 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2489 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2490 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2491 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2492 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2493
d6f6e0dc
PH
2494PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2495 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2496 list.
2497
322050c2
PH
2498PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2499 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2500 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2501 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2502 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2503 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2504 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2505 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2506 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2507 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2508 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2509 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2510 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2511
08955dd3
PH
2512PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2513 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2514 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2515 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2516 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2517 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2518 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2519
1eccaa59
PH
2520PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2521 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2522 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2523 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2524 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2525 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2526 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2527 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2528 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2529 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2530
602e59e5
PH
2531PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2532 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2533 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2534 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2535 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2536
411ef850
PH
2537PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2538 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2539 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2540 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2541 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2542 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2543 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2544
7befa435
PH
2545PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2546 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2547 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2548 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2549 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2550 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2551 been verified.
2552
48da4259 2553PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2554 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2555 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2556 and authorization.)
2557
48da4259
PH
2558PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2559 if any retry times were supplied.
2560
d1d5595c
PH
2561PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2562 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2563 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2564
0ef732d9
PH
2565PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2566
328895cc
PH
2567PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2568
fd700877
PH
2569PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2570 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2571 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2572 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2573 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2574 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2575
8dce1a6f
PH
2576PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2577 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2578
17af4a17
PH
2579PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2580 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2581 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2582
2583PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2584 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2585 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2586 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2587 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2588 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2589 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2590 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2591 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2592
2593 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2594 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2595 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2596 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2597 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2598 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2599 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2600 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2601 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2602
2603 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2604 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2605 hammering the server.
2606
c1114884
PH
2607PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2608 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2609
7a0743eb
PH
2610PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2611
0d85fa3f
PH
2612PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2613 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2614 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2615
1bf43b78
PH
2616PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2617 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2618 one case where this was not true.
2619
520de300
PH
2620PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2621 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2622 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2623 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2624 fails.
2625
48c7f9e2
PH
2626PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2627 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2628 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2629 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2630 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2631 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2632 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2633 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2634 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2635 smtp transport.
2636
99ea1c86
PH
2637PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2638 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2639 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2640 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2641
a2042e78
PH
2642PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2643 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2644
4fbcfc2e
PH
2645PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2646 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2647 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2648
aa41d2de
PH
2649PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2650
af561417
PH
2651PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2652
3cc66b45
PH
2653PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2654
194cc0e4
PH
2655PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2656 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2657 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2658 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2659
a401ddaa
PH
2660PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2661 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2662
4e88a19f
PH
2663PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2664 be meaningful with "accept".
2665
d7d7b289
SC
2666SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2667 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2668
2669SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2670 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2671 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2672
2673SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2674 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2675 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2676 there is data to show.
2677 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2678
2679SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2680 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2681 as well as the number of messages.
2682
2683SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2684 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2685 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2686
2687SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2688 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2689 have a flag are now skipped.
2690
2691SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2692 Added the -emptyok flag.
2693
2694SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2695 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2696
0ea2a468
JJ
2697JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2698 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2699 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2700
2701JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2702 match 4.64-PH/13
2703
2704JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2705 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2706
2707JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2708
2709JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2710 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2711
8a10f5a4
PH
2712PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2713
30e18802
PH
2714PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2715 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2716 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2717 contravention of the specifications.
2718
55728a4f
PH
2719PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2720 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2721 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2722
d7837193
PH
2723PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2724 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2725 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2726
87054a31
PH
2727PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2728
ea2c01d2
MH
2729MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2730 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2731 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2732 some point in the past.
2733
e4fa6968
PH
2734PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2735 transport during callout processing was broken.
2736
56f5d9bd
PH
2737PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2738 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2739
922e1c28
PH
2740PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2741 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2742
21eb6e72
PH
2743PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2744 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2745
a0540757
PH
2746PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2747
944e9e9c 2748
478be7b0
SC
2749Exim version 4.63
2750-----------------
2751
2752SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2753 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2754
2755SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2756 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2757 there is data to show.
2758 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2759
2760SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2761 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2762
2b965a65
TF
2763TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2764 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2765
45b91596
PH
2766TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2767 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2768
c59f5781
TF
2769TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2770 submissions from trusted users.
2771
90fc3069
TF
2772TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2773 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2774
6083aca0
TF
2775TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2776 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2777 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2778 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2779 there is now a framework to start from.
2780
765b530f
PH
2781PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2782 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2783 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2784
4e167a8c
PH
2785PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2786
4608d683
PH
2787PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2788
b8dc3e4a
PH
2789PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2790
5418e93b
PH
2791PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2792 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2793 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2794
b4a9bda2
PH
2795PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2796 libradius.
2797
45b91596
PH
2798PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2799 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2800 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2801
5547e2c5
PH
2802PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2803 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2804 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2805 its arguments.
2806
dbcef0ea
PH
2807PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2808 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2809 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2810 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2811 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2812
25257489
PH
2813PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2814 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2815
c816d124
PH
2816PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2817
a9ccd69a
PH
2818PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2819 operations in malware.c.
2820
75fa1910
PH
2821PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2822 signatures.
2823
a7d7aa58
PH
2824PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2825 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2826 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2827 all.
2828
42119b09
PH
2829PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2830 statements to "add_header".
2831
41609df5
PH
2832PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2833 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2834
a5bd321b
PH
2835PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2836 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2837 latter.
2838
e85a7ad5 2839PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2840 so that it is now:
2841
e85a7ad5
PH
2842 ${if or { \
2843 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2844 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2845 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2846 }{no}{yes}}
2847
e85a7ad5
PH
2848 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2849 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2850
d8fe1c03
PH
2851PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2852 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2853
16282d2b
PH
2854PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2855 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2856 any possible encoding problems.
2857
35d40a98
PH
2858PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2859 but not after initializing Perl.
2860
034d99ab
PH
2861PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2862 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2863 apparently, which is not desirable.
2864
6ec97b1b
PH
2865PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2866 queries.
2867
e22ca4ac
JJ
2868JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2869 --not options
2870
2871JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2872
33d73e3b
PH
2873PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2874 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2875 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2876 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2877
9ecb03f3
PH
2878PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2879 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2880 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2881
084efe8d
PH
2882PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2883 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2884 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2885 0.12.
2886
366fc9f0
PH
2887PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2888 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2889 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2890 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2891 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2892
c59f5781 2893
c887c79e
TF
2894Exim version 4.62
2895-----------------
2896
2897TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2898 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2899
1cce3af8
PH
2900PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2901 patch).
2902
afb3eaaf
PH
2903PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2904 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2905 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2906 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2907 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2908 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2909 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2910 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2911 451 error is used.
2912
e173618b
PH
2913PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2914
dd16e114
PH
2915PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2916 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2917 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2918
f7fd3850
PH
2919PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2920 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2921 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2922 odd errors.
2923
d87df92c
PH
2924PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2925 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2926
7e9f683d
PH
2927PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2928 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2929 option (which defaults to 0600).
2930
bfad5236
PH
2931PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2932
01c490df
PH
2933PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2934 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2935 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2936 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2937 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2938 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2939 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2940
d6629cdc
PH
2941PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2942
1cce3af8 2943
214e2000
PH
2944Exim version 4.61
2945-----------------
2946
2947PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2948 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2949 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2950 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2951 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2952 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2953 addresses as local.
2954
f9daeae0
PH
2955PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2956 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2957
7e66e54d
PH
2958PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2959
c8ea1597
PH
2960PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2961 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2962 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2963 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2964 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2965 grumble.
2966
911f6fde
PH
2967PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2968 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2969
47ca6d6c
PH
2970PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2971 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2972 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2973 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2974 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2975
ed0e9820
PH
2976PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2977 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2978 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2979 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2980
eff37e47
PH
2981PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2982 be the same on different OS.
2983
1921d2ea
PH
2984PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2985 testing.
2986
b3f69ca8
JJ
2987JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2988 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2989
2990JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2991 in 4.61-PH/06
2992
424a1c63
PH
2993PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2994 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2995 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2996 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2997 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2998 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2999 bounce message.
3000
7a100415
PH
3001PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3002 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3003 when Exim was called.
3004
19b9dc85
PH
3005PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3006 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3007
309bd837
PH
3008PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3009 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3010 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3011 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3012
59e82a2a
PH
3013PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3014 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3015 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3016 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3017 changes:
3018
3019 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3020 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3021 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3022
3023 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3024 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3025 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3026
9edc04ce
PH
3027PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3028 feature).
3029
1349e1e5
PH
3030PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3031 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3032 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3033 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3034 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3035 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3036 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3037 values from the SRV records were lost.
3038
ea49d0e1
PH
3039PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3040 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3041 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3042
064a94c9
PH
3043PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3044 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3045 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3046
727071f8
PH
3047PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3048 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3049 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3050 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3051 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3052 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3053 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3054 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3055 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3056 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3057
f78eb7c6
PH
3058PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3059 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3060 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3061
21c28500
PH
3062PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3063 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3064
3065PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3066 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3067 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3068 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3069 is given.
3070
1688f43b
PH
3071PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3072 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3073 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3074
3075PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3076 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3077 PH/23 above applies.
3078
9675b384
PH
3079PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3080 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3081 (for which there is an explicit test).
3082
6a3f1455
PH
3083PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3084
dac79d3e
PH
3085PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3086 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3087 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3088 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3089 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3090
5977a0b3
PH
3091PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3092 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3093 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3094 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3095
c91535f3
PH
3096PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3097 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3098 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3099
0d46a8c8
PH
3100PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3101
278c6e6c
PH
3102PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3103
2cbb4081
PH
3104PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3105 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3106 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3107
3eef829e
PH
3108PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3109 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3110 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3111 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3112 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3113
1ab95fa6
PH
3114PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3115 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3116 the message gets confusing).
3117
230205fc
PH
3118PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3119 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3120 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3121 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3122
75e0e026
PH
3123PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3124 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3125 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3126 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3127 same order.
3128
3129PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3130 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3131 the different processes.
3132
145396a6
PH
3133PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3134
3cd34f13
PH
3135PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3136
11121d3d
JJ
3137JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3138 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3139
3140JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3141 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3142
3143JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3144 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3145 messages matching specified criteria.
3146
8def5aaf
PH
3147PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3148
929ba01c
PH
3149PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3150 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3151
2632889e
PH
3152PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3153 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3154 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3155 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3156 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3157 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3158 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3159 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3160 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3161 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3162
944a9c55
PH
3163PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3164 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3165 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3166
4a23603b
PH
3167PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3168
4730f942
PH
3169PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3170 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3171 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3172 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3173 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3174 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3175 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3176 the variable.
3177
30dba1e6
PH
3178PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3179 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3180
382afc6b
PH
3181PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3182
a86229cf
PH
3183PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3184
50c99ba6
PH
3185PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3186
d35e429d
PH
3187PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3188 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3189 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3190 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3191 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3192 size of the count of files.
3193
f90d018c
PH
3194PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3195
75def545
PH
3196PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3197 used in LMTP mode:
3198
3199 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3200 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3201 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3202 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3203
3204 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3205 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3206 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3207
3208PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3209 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3210 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3211 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3212 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3213
c46782ef
PH
3214PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3215 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3216
71fafd95
PH
3217PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3218 will now be deprecated.
3219
2c5db4fd
PH
3220PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3221
9cf6b11a
JJ
3222JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3223 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3224 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3225
3226JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3227 with very large, slow to parse queues
3228
3229JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3230
3231JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3232
898d150f
PH
3233PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3234 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3235 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3236 SMTP output lines.
3237
46218253
PH
3238PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3239 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3240 Sieve code now uses this.
3241
e97957bc
PH
3242PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3243 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3244
81e509d7
PH
3245PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3246 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3247
3d240ff7
PH
3248PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3249
b37c4101
PH
3250PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3251 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3252 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3253 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3254 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3255
79378e0f
PH
3256PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3257 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3258 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3259 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3260
e49c7bb4
PH
3261PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3262
d114ec46
PH
3263PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3264
f3d7df6c
PH
3265PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3266 is preferred over IPv4.
3267
715ab376
PH
3268PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3269 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3270 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3271 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3272 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3273 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3274 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3275
6b31b150
PH
3276PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3277 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3278 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3279
3280PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3281
d515a917
PH
3282PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3283 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3284 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3285 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3286 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3287 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3288 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3289 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3290 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3291 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3292 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3293
9b8fadde
PH
3294PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3295 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3296 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3297
214e2000 3298
5de37277
PH
3299Exim version 4.60
3300-----------------
3301
cc38ddbf
PH
3302PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3303
3304 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3305 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3306
3307 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3308 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3309 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3310
72fdd6ae
PH
3311PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3312
3313 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3314 not a single digit.
3315
3316 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3317 string.
3318
3319 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3320 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3321 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3322 silly things.
3323
3324 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3325 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3326
3327 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3328 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3329
cb741023
PH
3330PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3331 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3332 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3333
f174f16e
PH
3334PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3335 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3336
c25242d7
PH
3337PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3338 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3339
3340 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3341
3342 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3343 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3344 this:
3345
3346 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3347
82c19f95
PH
3348PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3349 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3350 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3351 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3352 identical. For example:
3353
3354 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3355
3356 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3357 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3358 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3359
d7ffbc12
PH
3360PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3361 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3362 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3363 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3364
9f526266
PH
3365PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3366 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3367 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3368 message.
3369
87fcc8b9
PH
3370PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3371
3372 o fixes some comments
3373 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3374 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3375 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3376 and documents the missing references header update
3377
3378 and most important:
3379
3380 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3381 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3382 result)
3383
456682f5
PH
3384PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3385 Electronic Mail") by including:
3386
3387 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3388
3389 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3390 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3391 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3392 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3393 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3394
3395 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3396
3397 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3398
3399 The auto-replied keyword:
3400
3401 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3402 message by an automatic process,
3403
3404 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3405
3406 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3407 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3408
3409 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3410 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3411 other messages.
3412
3e46c1aa
PH
3413PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3414 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3415
49826d12
PH
3416PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3417
eba0c039
PH
3418PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3419 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3420 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3421
a0d6ba8a
PH
3422PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3423 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3424 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3425
f0917727
PH
3426PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3427 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3428 and treats the condition as false.
3429
096fee00
PH
3430PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3431
024bd3c2
PH
3432PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3433 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3434 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3435 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3436 not changing the active code.
3437
3438 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3439 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3440
3441 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3442 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3443
df199fec
PH
3444PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3445 (Bugzilla #53).
3446
d27f1df3
PH
3447PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3448 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3449 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3450 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3451 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3452 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3453 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3454 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3455 the text comparison.
3456
96776534
PH
3457PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3458 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3459 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3460 The same fix has been applied.
3461
5de37277 3462
9a799bc0
PH
3463Exim version 4.54
3464-----------------
3465
3466PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3467 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3468 It now does.
3469
99a4b039
PH
3470PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3471 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3472
3473PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3474
4b233853
PH
3475PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3476 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3477 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3478 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3479 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3480
8857ccfd
PH
3481TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3482 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3483 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3484 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3485 or /domain=).
3486
433a2980
PH
3487PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3488 testing suite.
3489
3e46c1aa 3490
9a799bc0 3491
e3a311ba
TK
3492Exim version 4.53
3493-----------------
3494
3495TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3496 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3497
13b685f9
PH
3498PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3499
395ff96d
PH
3500PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3501
5b68f6e4
PH
3502PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3503 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3504 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3505
1ab52c69
PH
3506PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3507 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3508 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3509
b07e6aa3
PH
3510PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3511 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3512 operating systems.
3513
254e032f
PH
3514PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3515 ${stat: expansion item.
3516
3af76a81
PH
3517PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3518 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3519
2548ba04
PH
3520PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3521 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3522 file for comments.
3523
b6c6011d
PH
3524PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3525
cf39cf57
PH
3526PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3527 setting.
3528
f1513293
PH
3529PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3530 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3531
727549a4
PH
3532TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3533
af46795e
PH
3534PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3535 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3536 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3537 the end of the subprocess.
3538
d7b47fd0
PH
3539PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3540 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3541 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3542 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3543 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3544
ee744174
JJ
3545JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3546
b582ab87
PH
3547TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3548
41a13e0a
PH
3549PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3550 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3551
f625cc5a
PH
3552PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3553
3554PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3555
21f7af35
PH
3556PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3557 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3558 HP-UX compiler.
3559
31480e42
PH
3560PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3561
2d280592
PH
3562PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3563 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3564 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3565
7cd1141b
PH
3566PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3567 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3568
3569PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3570 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3571
750af86e
PH
3572PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3573 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3574
3575 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3576 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3577
3578 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3579 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3580 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3581 contributed by a Radius user.
3582
3583PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3584 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3585
4304270b
TK
3586TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3587 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3588
750af86e
PH
3589PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3590 available.
3591
64ffc24f
PH
3592PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3593 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3594 received.
3595
5dd9625b
PH
3596PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3597 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3598 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3599 header lines when this was not necessary.
3600
5591031b
PH
3601PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3602
ba18e66a
PH
3603PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3604 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3605 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3606 exists".
3607
9cec981f
PH
3608PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3609 -bV or -d is used.
3610
aa2b5c79
PH
3611PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3612 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3613 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3614 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3615
48a53b7f
PH
3616PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3617
1c59d63b
PH
3618PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3619
671012da
TK
3620TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3621
1509d3a8
PH
3622PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3623
3624PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3625 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3626 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3627 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3628 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3629 settings.
3630
3631PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3632
2fe1a124
PH
3633PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3634 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3635 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3636 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3637 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3638 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3639 which is clearly wrong.
3640
8800895a
PH
3641PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3642
ccfdb010
PH
3643PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3644 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3645 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3646 subsequently added.
3647
1130bfb0
PH
3648PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3649 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3650
ebcb507f
PH
3651PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3652
c35e155c
PH
3653PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3654 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3655
95d1f782
PH
3656PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3657 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3658
fd6de02e
PH
3659PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3660 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3661
58de37c5
PH
3662PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3663 recipients, not senders.
3664
261cf466
TF
3665TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3666 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3667
3ee512ff
PH
3668PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3669
e08c430f
PH
3670PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3671
bef5a11f
PH
3672PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3673 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3674 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3675 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3676
7546de58
TF
3677TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3678
e5d5a95f
TF
3679TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3680 clock is set back in time.
3681
2e88a017
TF
3682TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3683 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3684
a5f65aa4
TF
3685TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3686 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3687
e7726cbf
PH
3688PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3689 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3690 (see PH/47 above).
3691
a7fdad5b
TF
3692TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3693 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3694 header rewrites.
3695
6af56900
PH
3696PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3697 type ("H").
3698
0925ede6
PH
3699PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3700
66afa403
TF
3701TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3702 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3703 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3704
0154e85a
TF
3705TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3706 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3707 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3708 helo verification defer as a failure.
3709
16f12c76
PH
3710PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3711 actual error message.
3712
bbe902f0 3713
e5a9dba6
PH
3714Exim version 4.52
3715-----------------
3716
3717TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3718
22c3b60b
PH
3719PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3720 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3721 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3722 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3723
06a9b4b5
PH
3724TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3725
c1ac6996
PH
3726PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3727 can still be requested.
3728
9c7a242c
PH
3729PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3730 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3731 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3732 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3733
87ba3f5f
PH
3734TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3735 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3736 circumstances, but probably never did.
3737
3738PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3739 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3740 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3741 in the header line.
3742
29aba418
TF
3743TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3744
fe0dab11
TF
3745TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3746 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3747
11d337a4
TK
3748TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3749
3750TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3751
415c8f3b
PH
3752PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3753 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3754 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3755 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3756 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3757 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3758
958541e9
PH
3759PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3760 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3761 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3762 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3763 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3764 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3765
c206415f
TK
3766TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3767 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3768
2a4be8f9
PH
3769PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3770 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3771
1cba11c5
SC
3772SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3773 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3774
4c04137d 3775SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3776
3777SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3778
3779SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3780
3781SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3782
3783SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3784
3785SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3786
1005d00e
TK
3787TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3788
3789TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3790 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3791 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3792
3793TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3794 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3795 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3796 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3797
9b4768fa
PH
3798PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3799 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3800 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3801
3802PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3803 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3804 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3805 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3806
0d7eb84a
PH
3807PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3808 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3809 to be made).
3810
3811PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3812 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3813 should work with maildirs and everything.
3814
40727bee
TK
3815TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3816 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3817
554d2369
TF
3818TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3819 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3820
1f922db1
PH
3821PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3822 function for BDB 4.3.
3823
ef213c3b
PH
3824PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3825
8ac170f3
PH
3826PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3827 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3828 involved.
3829
b1c749bb
PH
3830PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3831 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3832 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3833 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3834 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3835 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3836
4aac9b49
PH
3837PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3838 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3839 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3840 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3841 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3842 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3843 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3844 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3845
294520c8
TK
3846TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3847 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3848 details.
3849
5bd022fe
PH
3850PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3851 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3852
90e9ce59
PH
3853PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3854 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3855 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3856 test. It is now used for both.
3857
5ea81592
PH
3858PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3859 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3860 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3861 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3862 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3863 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3864
c6c2dc1d
PH
3865PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3866 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3867 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3868 string_vformat().
3869
fffffe4c
PH
3870PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3871 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3872 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3873
9a26b6b2
PH
3874PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3875 experimental DomainKeys support:
3876
3877 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3878 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3879 the control was given.
3880
3881 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3882
4aee0225
PH
3883PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3884
32d668a5
PH
3885PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3886
8187c3f3
PH
3887PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3888 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3889 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3890 db.h files).
3891
ff790e47 3892PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3893 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3894 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3895 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3896 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3897 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3898 course.
ff790e47 3899
5417f6d1
PH
3900PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3901 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3902 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3903 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3904 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3905 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3906
59cf8544
PH
3907PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3908 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3909 do -d+all out of habit.
3910
e7ad8a65
PH
3911PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3912 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3913 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3914
ade42478
PH
3915PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3916 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3917 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3918 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3919 record types that Exim uses.
3920
182ad5cf
PH
3921PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3922 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3923 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3924 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3925 non-existent file that was broken.
3926
b0d9fc80
TK
3927TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3928 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3929
3930TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3931 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3932 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3933
3934TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3935
47c7a64a
PH
3936PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3937 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3938 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3939 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3940 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3941 same time.
3942
a388bce4
SC
3943SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3944 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3945 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3946 at a slight CPU cost.
3947
3948SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3949 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3950
3951SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3952 by Marc Sherman.
3953
0793e4ed
SC
3954SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3955
c58b88df
PH
3956PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3957 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3958
e7ad8a65 3959
7982096b
PH
3960Exim version 4.51
3961-----------------
3962
1a46a8c5
PH
3963TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3964 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3965
2f079f46 3966TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3967
3968TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3969
3970PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3971 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3972
3973PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3974 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3975 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3976 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3977 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3978 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3979 file.
3980
3981PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3982 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3983 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3984 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3985 these two options.
3986
3987PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3988 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3989 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3990 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3991 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3992 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3993 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3994 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3995
3996PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3997 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3998
3999PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4000 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4001 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4002 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4003 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4004 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4005
4006PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4007 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4008 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4009 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4010
4011PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4012 Finch).
4013
4014PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4015 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4016
49c2d5ea
PH
4017PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4018 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4019 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4020 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4021 message.
49c2d5ea 4022
bf759a8b
PH
4023PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4024
83364d30
PH
4025PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4026 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4027
7999bbd7
PH
4028PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4029 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4030 to what was transported.)
4031
7dbf77c9
PH
4032TF/01 Added $received_time.
4033
74e0617f
PH
4034PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4035 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4036 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4037 spamd_address settings.
4038
2f079f46
PH
4039PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4040 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4041 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4042 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4043 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4044
8c841523
PH
4045PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4046
7766a4f0
PH
4047PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4048 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4049 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4050 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4051 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4052
8b417f2c
PH
4053PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4054 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4055
901f42cb
PH
4056PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4057 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4058 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4059 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4060 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4061 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4062 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4063 for failure.
4064
f9b9210e
PH
4065PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4066 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4067 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4068 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4069 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4070 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4071 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4072 "input=".
4073
54cdb463
PH
4074PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4075
cf00dad6
PH
4076PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4077 driver and ACL definitions.
4078
acb1b346
PH
4079PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4080 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4081
c5ddb310
PH
4082PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4083 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4084 understands it better than I do:
4085
4086 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4087 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4088
4089 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4090 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4091 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4092 => three warnings about OTP not working
4093 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4094
4095 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4096 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4097 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4098 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4099 for each call.)
4100 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4101 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4102
4103 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4104 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4105 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4106
31619da6
PH
4107PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4108 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4109 specified.
4110
bebaf0fc
PH
4111PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4112 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4113 "Linux".
4114
475fe28a
PH
4115PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4116 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4117 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4118
4119 warn !verify = sender
4120 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4121
4122 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4123 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4124
7e8bec7a
PH
4125PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4126
4127 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4128 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4129
4130 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4131 nomenclature these days.)
4132
e4a89c47
PH
4133PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4134 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4135
5ca2a9a1
PH
4136PH/30 In these circumstances:
4137 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4138 . First host does not offer TLS;
4139 . First host accepts first address;
4140 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4141 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4142 . Second host accepts second address.
4143 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4144 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4145 address.
7e8bec7a 4146
c688b954
PH
4147PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4148 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4149 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4150 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4151 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4152
fed77020
PH
4153PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4154 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4155
7fe1560f
PH
4156PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4157 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4158
ebb6e6d5
PH
4159PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4160 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4161 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4162
9c4e8f60
PH
4163PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4164 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4165 overlooked.
4166
4167PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4168
d7174846
PH
4169PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4170 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4171 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4172 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4173 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4174 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4175 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4176
4177 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4178 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4179 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4180 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4181 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4182
4183 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4184 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4185 routed further.
4186
cfe75fc3
PH
4187PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4188 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4189 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4190 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4191 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4192 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4193
be22d70e
PH
4194PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4195
0612b098
PH
4196PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4197 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4198 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4199 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4200 printable escape sequences.
4201
2e0c1448
PH
4202PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4203 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4204 body only.
4205
447d236c
PH
4206PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4207 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4208 are as follows:
4209
4210 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4211 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4212 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4213 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4214 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4215
4216 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4217 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4218 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4219
d20976dc
PH
4220PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4221
f656d135
PH
4222PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4223 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4224 play with."
4225
2e2a30b4
PH
4226PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4227 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4228 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4229 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4230 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4231 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4232 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4233 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4234 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4235 the log output.
4236
9176e9f0
PH
4237PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4238 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4239 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4240 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4241 "make".
4242
7982096b 4243
bbe902f0
PH
4244A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4245----------------------------------------
4246
4247Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4248changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4249needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4250in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4251that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4252release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4253from 4.43.
4254
4255I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
42564.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4257those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4258historical information.
4259
4260
f7b63901 4261Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4262-----------------
4263
5fe762f6
PH
4264 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4265
139059f6 4266 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4267 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4268
7086e875
PH
4269 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4270 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4271 place.
4272
35af9f61
PH
4273 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4274 filter fails to execute.
4275
b668c215
PH
4276 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4277 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4278 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4279 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4280 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4281
a494b1e1
PH
4282 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4283
4284 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4285 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4286 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4287 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4288
c5fcb476
PH
4289 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4290 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4291 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4292 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4293 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4294
69358f02
PH
4295 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4296
5be20824
PH
429710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4298
eb2c0248
PH
429911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4300 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4301 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4302 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4303
2a3eea10
PH
430412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4305 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4306 sender verification.
4307
430813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4309 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4310
23c7ff99
PH
431114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4312
4deaf07d
PH
431315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4314 connection timeout.
4315
926e1192
PH
431616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4317 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4318
650edc6f
PH
431917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4320 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4321
2c7db3f5
PH
432218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4323 information about exactly what failed.
4324
3d235903
PH
432519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4326
7c7ad977
PH
432720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4328 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4329 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4330
981756db
PH
433121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4332 It is now set to "smtps".
4333
d4eb88df
PH
433422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4335 ignore_target_hosts.
4336
433723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4338 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4339 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4340 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4341 "[x.x.x.x]".
4342
7d468ab8
PH
434324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4344 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4345 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4346
434725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4348 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4349 wake it up if nothing else does.
4350
62c0818f
PH
435126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4352 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4353 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4354 end up negative.
4355
26034054
PH
435627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4357 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4358
af66f652
PH
435928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4360
90af77f4
PH
436129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4362 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4363 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4364 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4365 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4366 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4367 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4368 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4369
d8ef3577
PH
437030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4371 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4372 than one IP address.
4373
5cb8cbc6
PH
437431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4375 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4376 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4377 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4378
14702f5b
PH
437932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4380 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4381 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4382 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4383 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4384 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4385
063b1e99
PH
438633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4387 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4388 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4389 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4390
652e1b65
PH
439134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4392 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4393 respected.
4394
6f0c9a4f
PH
439535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4396 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4397 $sender_host_address.
4398
33397d19
PH
439936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4400 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4401 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4402 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4403 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4404 very small.
4405
7bb56e1f
PH
440637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4407
4408 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4409 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4410
ea3bc19b
PH
4411 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4412 just the host names, not the priorities.
4413
4414 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4415 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4416 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4417
ea3bc19b 4418 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4419 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4420
0bcb2a0e
PH
442138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4422 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4423 domain.
4424
2ac0e484
PH
442539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4426
4e1fde53
PH
442740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4428 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4429
de365ded
PH
443041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4431 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4432 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4433
f05da2e8
PH
443442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4435
d6453af2
PH
443643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4437
f7b63901
PH
443844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4439
444045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4441 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4442 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4443 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4444 because the tests only now provoked it.
4445
a444213a
PH
444646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4447 (this can affect the format of dates).
4448
0ec020ea
PH
444947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4450 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4451 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4452 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4453
b1206957
PH
445448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4455
445649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4457 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4458 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4459 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4460
26dd5a95
PH
446150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4462 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4463 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4464
343b2385
PH
446551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4466 autoreply.
4467
1c5466b9
PH
446852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4469 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4470 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4471 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4472 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4473 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4474 is going on).
4475
55ee9ee3
PH
447653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4477 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4478 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4479 the line.
4480
d38f8232
PH
448154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4482 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4483 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4484
4485 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4486 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4487 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4488 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4489 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4490 so I produce this patch..."
4491
3295e65b
PH
4492 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4493 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4494 is not defined.
4495
7102e136
PH
449655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4497 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4498 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4499 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4500 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4501
3ca0ba97
PH
450256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4503
c2bcbe20
PH
450457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4505 long debug lines gets shown.
4506
18ce445d
PH
450758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4508 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4509
1f5b4c3d
PH
451059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4511
4512 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4513 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4514 of $primary_hostname.
4515
b975ba52
PH
451660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4517 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4518 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4519 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4520 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4521 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4522 by change 4.50/55 above.
4523
4524 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4525 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4526 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4527 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4528 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4529 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4530 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4531
453261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4533 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4534 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4535 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4536
17ffcae7
PH
453762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4538 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4539
d95f9fdb
PH
454063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4541 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4542 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4543 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4544 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4545
86b8287f
PH
454664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4547 This has been fixed.
4548
60dc5e56
PH
454965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4550 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4551 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4552 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4553 the caching.)
4554
533244af
PH
455566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4556
a5a28604
PH
455767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4558 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4559 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4560 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4561
7e634d24
PH
456268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4563 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4564
3e11c26b
PH
456569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4566 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4567 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4568
6729cf78
PH
456970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4570 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4571 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4572 message there.
4573
00f00ca5
PH
457471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4575 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4576 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4577
c9bdd01c
PH
457872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4579 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4580 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4581 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4582
d43194df
PH
458373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4584 during host lookups.
4585
fe5b5d0b
PH
458674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4587 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4588
4589 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4590
76a2d7ba
PH
459175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4592 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4593 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4594 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4595 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4596 background.
4597
459876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4599 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4600
04f7d5b9
PH
460177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4602 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4603 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4604
bc60667e
PH
460578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4606
bb6e88ff
PH
460779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4608 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4609 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4610 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4611 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4612 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4613 process earlier.
4614
1e70f85b
PH
461580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4616 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4617 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4618 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4619 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4620
462181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4622 tables).
4623
4e01f9d6
PH
462482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4625
1ee1cef2
PH
462683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4627 "vacation" handling.
4628
6e2b4ccc
PH
462984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4630 OS variants using glibc.
4631
8e669ac1
PH
463285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4633
495ae4b0 4634
bbe902f0
PH
4635----------------------------------------------------
4636See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4637----------------------------------------------------
4638
4639
4640Exim version 4.44
4641-----------------
4642
4643 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4644 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4645 transport
4646
4647 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4648 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4649 place.
4650
4651 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4652 filter fails to execute.
4653
4654 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4655 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4656 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4657 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4658 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4659
4660 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4661 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4662 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4663 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4664
4665 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4666 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4667 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4668 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4669 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4670
4671 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4672
4673 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4674 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4675 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4676 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4677
4678 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4679 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4680 sender verification.
4681
468210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4683 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4684
468511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4686 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4687
468812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4689 ignore_target_hosts.
4690
469113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4692 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4693 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4694 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4695 "[x.x.x.x]".
4696
469714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4698 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4699 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4700
470115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4702 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4703 wake it up if nothing else does.
4704
470516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4706 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4707 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4708 end up negative.
4709
471017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4711 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4712
ea3a6f44 471318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4714
471519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4716 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4717 empty pattern.
4718
471920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4720 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4721 one IP address.
4722
ea3a6f44
NM
472321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4724 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4725 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4726 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4727 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4728 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4729
ea3a6f44
NM
473022. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4731 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4732 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4733
473423. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4735 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4736 $sender_host_address.
4737
473824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4739
ea3a6f44
NM
474025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4741 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4742 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4743
474426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4745 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4746
ea3a6f44
NM
474727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4748 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4749
ea3a6f44
NM
475028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4751 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4752 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4753 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4754
475529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4756 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4757 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4758
ea3a6f44
NM
475930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4760 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4761 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4762 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4763
ea3a6f44
NM
476431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4765 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4766 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4767
ea3a6f44
NM
476831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4769 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4770
ea3a6f44
NM
477132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4772 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4773 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4774 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4775 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4776 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4777 is going on).
bbe902f0 4778
ea3a6f44
NM
477933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4780 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4781 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4782 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4783 CAN-2005-0021
4784
ea3a6f44
NM
478534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4786 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4787 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4788 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4789 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4790 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4791 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4792
4793 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4794 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4795 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4796 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4797 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4798 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4799 CAN-2005-0021
4800
ea3a6f44
NM
480135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4802 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4803 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4804 CAN-2005-0022
4805
ea3a6f44
NM
480636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4807 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4808 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4809 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4810 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4811
ea3a6f44
NM
481237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4813 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4814 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4815 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4816 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4817
ea3a6f44
NM
481838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4819 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4820 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4821 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4822 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4823
4824
495ae4b0
PH
4825Exim version 4.43
4826-----------------
4827
4828 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4829 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4830 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4831 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4832 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4833 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4834 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4835
4836 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4837 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4838 the delivery.
4839
4840 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4841
4842 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4843
4844 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4845 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4846 to local_scan().
4847
4848 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4849 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4850 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4851 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4852 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4853
4854 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4855 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4856
4857 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4858
4859 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4860
486110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4862 header_sender only.
4863
486411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4865 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4866
486712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4868 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4869 affecting debugging statements).
4870
487113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4872
487314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4874 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4875 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4876 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4877 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4878 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4879 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4880 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4881 after the received time, and all would be well.
4882
488315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4884 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4885 condition in an expansion string.
4886
488716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4888
488917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4890 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4891 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4892 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4893 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4894 job under whatever limits there are.
4895
489618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4897
489819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4899 space).
4900
490120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4902 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4903 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4904 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4905 return path is set.
4906
490721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4908 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4909 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4910 binary data in such strings.
4911
491222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4913
491423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4915 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4916 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4917 failure, which is pointless.
4918
491924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4920
492125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4922
492326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4924 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4925 Sender: header lines.
4926
492727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4928 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4929 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4930
493128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4932 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4933 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4934 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4935 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4936 happens.
4937
493829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4939 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4940 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4941 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4942 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4943
494430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4945 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4946 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4947 1024.
4948
494931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4950 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4951
495232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4953 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4954
495533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4956
495732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4958
495933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4960
496134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4962 syntax error.
4963
496435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4965
496636. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4967
496837. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4969 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4970 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4971 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4972
497338. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4974 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4975
4976
4977Exim version 4.42
4978-----------------
4979
4980 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4981 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4982 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4983 it was not quoted.
4984 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4985 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4986 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4987 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4988 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4989 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4990
4991 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4992 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4993 verification failure".
4994
4995 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4996 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4997 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4998 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4999
5000 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5001 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5002 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5003 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5004 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5005 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5006 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5007 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5008 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5009 treated as a timeout.
5010
5011 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5012 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5013 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5014 not set for Exim filters).
5015
5016 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5017 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5018 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5019
5020 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5021
5022 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5023 try to make them clearer.
5024
5025 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5026 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5027
5028 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5029
5030 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5031
503210. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5033 only the Cygwin environment.
5034
503511. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5036 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5037 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5038 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5039 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5040
504112. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5042 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5043 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5044 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5045 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5046 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5047 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5048
504913. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5050 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5051
505214. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5053
5054 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5055 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5056 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5057
5058 To: susanne@some.where
5059
5060 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5061 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5062 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5063 of addresses in From: header lines).
5064
5065 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5066 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5067 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5068
5069 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5070 treated as non-personal.
5071
5072 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5073 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5074
507515. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5076
507716. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5078
507917. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5080 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5081 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5082
508318. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5084 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5085
508619. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5087 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5088 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5089 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5090 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5091 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5092
509320. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5094 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5095 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5096 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5097 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5098 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5099 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5100 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5101
5102 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5103
510421. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5105 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5106
510722. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5108 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5109 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5110
511123. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5112 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5113
511424. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5115 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5116 rather than long int.
5117
511825. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5119
512026. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5121
5122
5123Exim version 4.41
5124-----------------
5125
5126 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5127 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5128 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5129 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5130 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5131 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5132
5133
5134Exim version 4.40
5135-----------------
5136
5137 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5138 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5139
5140 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5141 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5142 socklen_t is defined.
5143
5144 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5145 always exist.
5146
5147 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5148 configured.
5149
5150 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5151 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5152 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5153 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5154 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5155
5156 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5157 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5158 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5159 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5160
5161 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5162 of flapping under certain conditions.
5163
5164 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5165 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5166 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5167
5168 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5169
517010. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5171
517211. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5173 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5174 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5175 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5176
517712. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5178 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5179 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5180 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5181 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5182 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5183 preserved with the message after it was received.
5184
518513. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5186 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5187 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5188 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5189 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5190 test suite worked just fine.
5191
519214. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5193 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5194 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5195
519615. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5197 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5198 string.
5199
520016. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5201 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5202 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5203 does not fully solve it.
5204
520517. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5206 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5207 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5208 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5209 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5210
521118. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5212 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5213 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5214
521519. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5216 string, for example:
5217
5218 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5219
5220 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5221 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5222 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5223 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5224 the routers could not see them.
5225
522620. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5227 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5228
522921. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5230 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5231 output).
5232
523322. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5234 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5235 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5236 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5237 that needed quoting.
5238
523923. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5240 was not being matched caselessly.
5241
524224. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5243 backslashes.
5244
524525. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5246 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5247 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5248 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5249 when use_sender is false.
5250
525126. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5252
525327. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5254
525528. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5256
525729. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5258 the configuration file.
5259
526030. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5261 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5262
526331. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5264
526532. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5266 bytes in the message body.
5267
526833. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5269 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5270 delivery.
5271
527234. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5273
527435. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5275
527636. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5277 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5278 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5279 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5280 another IP address.
5281
5282
5283Exim version 4.34
5284-----------------
5285
5286 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5287 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5288
5289 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5290 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5291 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5292 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5293 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5294
5295 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5296 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5297
5298 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5299 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5300 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5301
5302 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5303 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5304 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5305
5306 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5307 for routers.
5308
5309 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5310 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5311 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5312 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5313 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5314 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5315 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5316
5317
5318Exim version 4.33
5319-----------------
5320
5321 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5322 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5323 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5324 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5325 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5326 default (and expected) setting.
5327
5328 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5329 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5330 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5331 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5332
5333 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5334 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5335
5336 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5337 in domain lists.
5338
5339 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5340 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5341 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5342 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5343 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5344 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5345
5346 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5347 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5348 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5349
5350 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5351 part (NOT match_host).
5352
5353 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5354
5355 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5356 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5357 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5358 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5359 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5360 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5361 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5362 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5363 the same named file.
5364
536510. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5366 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5367 when Exim is built.
5368
536911. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5370 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5371 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5372 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5373 a host name.
5374
537512. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5376 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5377 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5378
537913. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5380
538114. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5382
538315. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5384
538516. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5386 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5387
538817. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5389 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5390 before starting the TLS session.
5391
539218. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5393
539419. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5395 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5396
539720. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5398 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5399 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5400 colon in the middle).
5401
5402
5403Exim version 4.32
5404-----------------
5405
5406 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5407 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5408 multiple configurations are in use.
5409
5410 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5411 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5412 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5413 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5414 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5415 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5416
5417 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5418 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5419
5420 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5421 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5422 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5423
5424 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5425 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5426 occurs.
5427
5428 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5429 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5430
5431 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5432
5433 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5434 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5435
5436 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5437
5438 -prval:sval
5439
5440 is equivalent to
5441
5442 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5443
5444 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5445 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5446 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5447 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5448 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5449
545010. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5451 Exim's behaviour:
5452
5453 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5454 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5455 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5456 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5457 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5458 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5459
5460 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5461 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5462 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5463 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5464 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5465 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5466 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5467 string.
5468
5469 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5470 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5471 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5472 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5473 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5474
547511. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5476
547712. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5478 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5479 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5480
548113. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5482
548314. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5484 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5485 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5486 information.
5487
548815. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5489 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5490
549116. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5492 Three changes have been made:
5493
5494 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5495 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5496 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5497 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5498 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5499
5500 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5501 been restored.
5502
5503 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5504 the modified behaviour.
5505
5506
5507Exim version 4.31
5508-----------------
5509
5510 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5511 Larry Rosenman.
5512
5513 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5514 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5515
5516 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5517 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5518 try to track down a specific problem.
5519
5520 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5521 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5522 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5523
5524 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5525 warning.
5526
5527 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5528 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5529 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5530 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5531 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5532 some earlier ones do not.
5533
5534 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5535
5536 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5537 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5538 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5539 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5540 address literals are enabled, of course).
5541
5542 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5543
554410. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5545 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5546 by a command such as
5547
5548 exim -f "" ...
5549
5550 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5551
555211. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5553
555412. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5555 remained set. It is now erased.
5556
555713. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5558 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5559
556014. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5561 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5562 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5563 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5564 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5565 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5566 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5567 appropriate error code.
5568
556915. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5570 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5571 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5572 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5573 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5574 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5575
557616. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5577 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5578 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5579
558017. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5581 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5582 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5583 terminate the header.
5584
558518. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5586 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5587 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5588
558919. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5590 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5591 (4.30/29). In particular:
5592
5593 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5594 imposed.
5595
5596 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5597 to write a maildirsize file.
5598
5599 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5600 the transport, the new value overrides.
5601
5602 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5603 count.
5604
560520. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5606 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5607 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5608 space or a tab.
5609
561021. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5611 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5612 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5613 the fallback hosts.
5614
561522. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5616 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5617 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5618
561923. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5620 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5621 using a union.
5622
562324. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5624 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5625 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5626
562725. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5628
562926. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5630
563127. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5632
563328. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5634 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5635 become corrupted.
5636
563729. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5638 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5639 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5640 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5641 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5642 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5643 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5644 too great.
5645
564630. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5647 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5648 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5649 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5650 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5651 incorrectly.
5652
565331. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5654 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5655 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5656 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5657 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5658 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5659 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5660 cached value only when the same options are set.
5661
566232. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5663
566433. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5665 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5666 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5667 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5668 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5669
567034: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5671 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5672 it is clearly obsolete.
5673
567435. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5675 transport.
5676
567736. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5678 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5679 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5680 times.
5681
568237. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5683 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5684 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5685 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5686 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5687
568838. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5689 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5690 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5691 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5692
569339. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5694
5695 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5696
5697 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5698 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5699 2^31.
5700
570140. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5702 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5703 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5704 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5705 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5706 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5707 $localpart_data.
5708
570941. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5710 with the -f command-line option.
5711
571242. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5713 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5714 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5715 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5716 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5717 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5718
571943. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5720 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5721 line.
5722
572344. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5724 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5725 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5726 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5727 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5728 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5729 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5730 buffer is too small.
5731
573245. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5733 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5734
573546. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5736 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5737 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5738 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5739 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5740 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5741 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5742 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5743 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5744
574547. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5746 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5747 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5748
574948. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5750 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5751 ACL").
5752
575349. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5754 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5755 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5756 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5757 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5758
575950. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5760 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5761 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5762 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5763 is set.
5764
576551. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5766
576752. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5768
576953. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5770 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5771
577254. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5773 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5774 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5775
577655. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5777 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5778 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5779 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5780 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5781
578256. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5783 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5784 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5785 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5786 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5787 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5788 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5789
579057. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5791 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5792 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5793 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5794 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5795 the test of how many are available.
5796
579758. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5798 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5799 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5800 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
495ae4b0
PH
5801 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5802 new message is started.
5803
580459. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5805 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5806
580760. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5808 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5809
581061. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5811 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5812 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5813 is no long logged.
5814
581562. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5816 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5817 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5818 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5819 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5820 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5821 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5822
582363. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5824 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5825 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5826 interpreted as octal.
5827
582864. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5829 setting.
5830
583165. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5832 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5833 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5834 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5835 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5836 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5837
583866. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5839 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5840 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5841 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5842
5843 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5844 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5845 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5846 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5847
5848 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5849 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5850 is a bug fix.
5851
5852 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5853 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5854
585567. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5856
585768. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5858 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5859 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5860 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5861
586269. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5863 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5864 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5865 supplied", which is not helpful.
5866
586770. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5868 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5869 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5870
587171. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5872 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5873 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5874 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5875 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5876 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5877 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5878 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5879
588072. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5881 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5882 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5883 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5884 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5885
588673. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5887 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5888 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5889 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5890 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5891 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5892
589374. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5894 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5895 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5896
589775. Added write_rejectlog option.
5898
589976. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5900 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5901 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5902 variables.
5903
590477. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5905
590678. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5907 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5908 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5909 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5910 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5911 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5912 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5913 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5914
591579. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5916 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5917 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5918 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5919 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5920
592180. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5922 Haardt.
5923
592481. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5925 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5926 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5927 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5928 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5929 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5930 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5931 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5932 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5933
5934
5935Exim version 4.30
5936-----------------
5937
5938 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5939 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5940 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5941
5942 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5943 fixed.
5944
5945 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5946 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5947 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5948
5949 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5950 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5951 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5952 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5953 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 5954 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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5956 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5957 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5958 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5959 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5960 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5961 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5962 the Exim test suite.
5963
5964 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5965 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5966 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5967 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5968
5969 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5970 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5971 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5972 specify it in this variable.
5973
5974 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5975 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5976 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5977 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5978
5979 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5980 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5981 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5982 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5983
5984 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5985 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5986 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5987 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5988 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5989
5990 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5991
599210. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5993 they are logged.
5994
599511. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5996 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5997 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5998 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5999 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6000
600112. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6002 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6003
600413. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6005 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6006 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6007 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6008 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6009
601014. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6011 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6012
601315. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6014 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6015 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6016
601716. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6018 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6019
602017. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6021 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6022
602318. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6024 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6025 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6026
602719. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6028 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6029
603020. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6031 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6032 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6033 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6034
603521. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6036
603722. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6038 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6039 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6040 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6041
604223. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6043
604424. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6045 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6046
604725. Added .include_if_exists.
6048
604926. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6050 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6051 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6052 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6053 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6054 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6055
605627. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6057
605828. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6059 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6060 this.
6061
606229. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6063
606430. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6065 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6066
6067 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6068 550 Sender verify failed
6069
6070 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6071 the final line of the response.
6072
607331. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6074 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6075 all other user lookups.
6076
607732. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6078 delivery time.
6079
608033. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6081 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6082 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6083 result into an int without checking.
6084
608534. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6086 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6087 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6088
608935. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6090 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6091 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6092 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6093
609436. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6095 correctly.
6096
609737. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6098 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6099
610038. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6101 to the empty sender.
6102
610339. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6104 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6105 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6106 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6107 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6108 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6109 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6110 panic log.
6111
611240. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6113 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6114 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6115 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6116 used.
6117
611841. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6119 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6120
612142. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6122 timestamps.
6123
612443. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6125 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6126
612744. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6128
612945. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6130 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6131 logs.
6132
613346. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6134 as soon as it is encountered.
6135
613647. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6137
613848. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6139 rewritten to "<>".
6140
614149. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6142 recognizes a tab character.
6143
614450. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6145 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6146 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6147 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6148
614951. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6150
615152. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6152 crash.
6153
615453. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6155
615654. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6157
615855. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6159 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6160 2822.
6161
616256. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6163 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6164 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6165 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6166 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6167
616857. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6169 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6170
617158. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6172 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6173 list (.included file names were always shown).
6174
617559. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6176 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6177 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6178 root at that time.
6179
618060. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6181 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6182
618361. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6184
618562. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6186
618763. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6188
618964. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6190 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6191 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6192 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6193 failures to open the logs.
6194
619565. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6196 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6197 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6198 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6199 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6200 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6201 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6202
6203
6204Exim version 4.24
6205-----------------
6206
6207 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6208 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6209 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6210 change 4.23/1.
6211
6212 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6213 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6214 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6215
6216 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6217 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6218 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6219
6220 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6221 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6222 causing some misleading effects.
6223
6224 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6225 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6226 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6227
6228 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6229 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6230 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6231 queue-runner function directly.
6232
6233
6234Exim version 4.23
6235-----------------
6236
6237 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6238 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6239
6240 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6241 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6242 was always written to the default place.
6243
6244 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6245 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6246 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6247
6248 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6249
6250 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6251
6252 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6253 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6254 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6255
6256 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6257 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6258 must start.
6259
6260 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6261 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6262 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6263
6264 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6265 command line option is disabled.
6266
6267 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6268 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6269
6270 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6271
6272 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6273
6274 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6275 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6276
627710. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6278
627911. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6280 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6281 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6282 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6283 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6284 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6285
628612. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6287 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6288 timeout.
6289
629013. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6291 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6292
629314. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6294 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6295
629615. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6297 received was valid base64.
6298
629916. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6300 name of the variable that was being set.
6301
630217. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6303
630418. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6305 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6306 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6307 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6308 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6309 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6310
631119. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6312
631320. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6314 nor realm was specified.
6315
631621. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6317 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6318 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6319 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6320
632122. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6322 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6323 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6324
632523. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6326 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6327 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6328
632924. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6330 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6331 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6332 some systems use these upper case variants.
6333
633425. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6335 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6336 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6337 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6338
633926. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6340
634127. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6342 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6343
634428. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6345 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6346 expansion variable.
6347
634829. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6349
635030. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6351 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6352 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6353 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6354
635531. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6356 using it.
6357
635832. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6359 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6360 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6361
636233. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6363 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6364
636534. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6366 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6367 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6368 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6369
637035. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6371 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6372 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6373
637436. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6375
637637. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6377 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6378 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6379 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6380 aborted.
6381
638238. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6383 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6384 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6385
638639. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6387
638840. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6389 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6390
639141. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6392 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6393
639442. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6395 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6396 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6397 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6398 when emails are that large.
6399
6400
6401
6402Exim version 4.22
6403-----------------
6404
6405 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6406 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6407
6408 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6409 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6410 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6411
6412 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6413 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6414 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6415
6416 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6417 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6418 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6419 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6420 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6421
6422 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6423 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6424 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6425 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6426 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6427 ever.
6428
6429 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6430 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6431 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6432 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6433 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6434 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6435 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6436 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6437 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6438 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6439 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6440 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6441 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6442 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6443
6444 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6445 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6446 parameterised it.
6447
6448 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6449 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6450 error should be diagnosed.
6451
6452 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6453 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6454 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6455 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6456 appeared instead of "NULL".
6457
645810. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6459 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6460 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6461 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6462 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6463 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6464 proceeds).
6465
6466 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6467 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6468 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6469
6470
6471Exim version 4.21
6472-----------------
6473
6474 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6475 or receiver verification errors.
6476
6477 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6478 name.
6479
6480 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6481 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6482 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6483 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6484
6485 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6486 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6487 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6488 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6489 shouldn't happen again.
6490
6491 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6492 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6493 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6494
6495 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6496 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6497
6498 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6499
6500 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6501 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6502
6503 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6504 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6505 RFC.
6506
650710. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6508 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6509 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6510
651111. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6512 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6513 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6514 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6515
651612. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6517 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6518 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6519 to define what should happen).
6520
652113. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6522 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6523 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6524
652514. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6526
652715. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6528
652916. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6530 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6531
4c04137d 653217. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6533 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6534 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6535 structure in all cases.
6536
6537 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6538 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6539 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6540 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6541
654218. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6543 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6544 domain name.
6545
654619. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6547 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6548
654920. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6550 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6551
655221. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6553 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6554 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6555
655622. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6557 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6558 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6559
656023. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6561 the book and for uniformity.
6562
656324. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6564
656525. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6566 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6567 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6568 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6569 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6570 non-existent command as the problem.
6571
657226. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6573 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6574 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6575
657627. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6577
657828. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6579 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6580 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6581
658229. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6583 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6584 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6585 timestamps using strftime().
6586
658730. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6588 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6589
659032. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6591 transport-time rewrites.
6592
659333. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6594 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6595 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6596 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6597
659834. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6599 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6600
660135. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6602 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6603 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6604 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6605 comma and a space.
6606
660736. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6608 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6609 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6610 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6611 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6612 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6613 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6614
661537. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6616 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6617 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6618 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6619 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6620
662138. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6622 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6623 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6624 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6625 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6626 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6627 remaining text gets split now.
6628
662939. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6630 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6631 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6632 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6633
663440. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6635 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6636 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6637 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6638 $return_path.
6639
664041. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6641 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6642 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6643 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6644 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6645 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6646 passed through if needed.
6647
664842. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6649 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6650 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6651 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6652 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6653 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6654
665543. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6656 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6657 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6658 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6659 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6660
666144. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6662 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6663 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6664 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6665 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6666
666745. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6668 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6669 noticed.
6670
667146. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6672 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6673 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6674 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6675 mayhem of various kinds.
6676
667747. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6678 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6679 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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6680 the right test for positive values.
6681
668248. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6683 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6684 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6685 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6686 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6687 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6688 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6689 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6690 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6691 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6692 envelope.
6693
669449. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6695 module.
6696
669750. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6698 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6699 forbidding it.
6700
670151. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6702 the existing equality matching.
6703
670452. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6705 dealing with inode numbers.
6706
670753. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6708 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6709 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6710
671154. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6712 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6713 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6714 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6715 local_scan().
6716
671755. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6718 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6719 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6720 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6721 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6722 relay addresses has also been removed.
6723
672456. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6725
672657. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6727 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6728 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6729
673058. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6731 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6732 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6733 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6734 processing applies to CR:
6735
6736 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6737 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6738
6739 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6740 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6741 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6742 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6743
674459. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6745 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6746 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6747
674860. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6749 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6750 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6751 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6752 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6753 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6754 arisen.
6755
675661. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6757 program routers.
6758
675962. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6760 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6761 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6762 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6763 adds:
6764
6765 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6766
6767 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6768
6769 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6770
677163. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6772 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6773 not considered personal.
6774
677564. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6776
677765. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6778
677966. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6780
678167. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6782 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6783 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6784 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6785 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6786 header lines, and spool format errors.
6787
678868. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6789 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6790 for more flexibility.
6791
679269. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6793 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6794 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6795
679670. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6797 Sabourenkov.
6798
679971. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6800 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6801 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6802 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6803 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6804 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6805 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6806 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6807 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6808
680972. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6810 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6811 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6812 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6813 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6814 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6815 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6816
681773. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6818 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6819 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6820
682174. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6822 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6823 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6824 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6825 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6826 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6827 instead of killing the process with assert().
6828
682975. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6830 than Unicode encoding.
6831
683276. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6833 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6834 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6835 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6836
683777. Added process_log_path.
6838
683978. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6840 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6841
684279. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6843 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6844
684580. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6846 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6847 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6848
684981. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6850 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6851 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6852 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6853 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6854 were applied:
6855
6856 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6857 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6858 as invalid.
6859
686082. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6861 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6862 they will be used during message reception.
6863
6864
6865Exim version 4.20
6866-----------------
6867
6868The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6869
6870****