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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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6Exim version 4.67
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8
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9MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
10 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
11 Jan Srzednicki.
12
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13PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
14 issue a MAIL command.
15
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16PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
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18 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
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20 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
21 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
22 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
23 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
24 item. This has been fixed.
25
26PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
27 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
28
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29PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
30 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
31
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32PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
33 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
34 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
35
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36SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
37
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38PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
39 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
40 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
41 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
42 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
43
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44MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
45 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
46 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
47
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48PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
49 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
50 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
51 the server_setid option was incorrect.
52
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53PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
54
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55PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
56
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57PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
58 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
59 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
60 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
61 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
62
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63PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
64
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65PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
66 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
67 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
68 values).
69
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70PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
71
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72PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
73
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74PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
75
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76PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
77
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78PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
79
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80PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
81 no_callout_flush is set.
82
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83PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
84 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
85 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
86 fixed.
87
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88PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
89
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90PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
91 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
92 other ACL rejections are.
93
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94PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
95 with slight modification.
96
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97PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
98 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
99
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100PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
101 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
102 connection.
103
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104PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
105 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
106
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107SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
108
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109PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
110 expansion side effects.
111
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112PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
113 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
114 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
115 be the same.
116
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117MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
118 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
119 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
120
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121PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
122 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
123 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
124 were accidentally chopped off.
125
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126PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
127 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
128 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
129 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
130 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
131 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
132 pipelining has not been advertised.
133
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134PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
135
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136PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
137 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
138 This has been fixed.
139
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140PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
141 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
142 reported on Solaris.
143
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144PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
145 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
146 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
147 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
148 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
149 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
150 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
151
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152PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
153 cpus.
154
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155PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
156
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157PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
158
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163PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
164 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
165
166 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
167 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
168
169 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
170 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
171 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
172
173 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
174 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
175 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
176 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
177 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
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183TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
184 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
185 versions. (#438)
186
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187MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
188 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
189 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
190
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191PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
192 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
193 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
194 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
195 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
196 rather than extend the field.
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202TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
203 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
204 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
205 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
206 these files.
207
208TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
209 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
210 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
211
212TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
213 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
214 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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216TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
217 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
218 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
219 in the field name.
220
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221PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
222 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
223 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
224 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
225 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
226 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
227 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
228 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
229 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
230 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
231 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
232
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233PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
234 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
235
236PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
237 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
238 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
239 ignores EPIPE as well.
240
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241PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
242 (quoted-printable decoding).
243
cc2ed8f7 244PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 245 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
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247PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
248
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249PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
250
251PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
252
38a0a95f 253PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 254 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
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256JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
257 in 4.64-PH/09.
258
259JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
260 miscellaneous code fixes
261
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262PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
263 rejections.
264
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265PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
266 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
267 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
268 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
269 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
270 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
271 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
272 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
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14aa5a05 274PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 275 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
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276 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
277 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
278 function.
279 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
280 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
281 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
282 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
283 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
284 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
285 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
286 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
287 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
288
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289PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
290 decoding.
291
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292PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
293 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
294 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
295 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
296 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
297 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
298 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
299 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
300
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301PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
302 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
303 list.
304
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305PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
306 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
307 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
308 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
309 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
310 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
311 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
312 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
313 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
314 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
315 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
316 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
317 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
318
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319PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
320 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
321 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
322 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
323 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
324 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
325 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
326
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327PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
328 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
329 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
330 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
331 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
332 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
333 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
334 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
335 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
336 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
337
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338PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
339 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
340 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
341 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
342 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
343
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344PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
345 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
346 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
347 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
348 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
349 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
350 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
351
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352PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
353 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
354 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
355 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
356 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
357 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
358 been verified.
359
48da4259 360PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
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361 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
362 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
363 and authorization.)
364
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365PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
366 if any retry times were supplied.
367
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368PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
369 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
370 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
371
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372PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
373
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374PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
375
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376PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
377 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
378 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
379 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
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380 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
381 before) are ignored.
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383PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
384 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
385
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386PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
387 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
388 committing the later change.]
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390PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
391 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
392 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
393 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
394 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
395 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
396 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
397 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
398 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
399
400 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
401 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
402 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
403 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
404 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
405 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
406 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
407 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
408 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
409
410 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
411 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
412 hammering the server.
413
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414PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
415 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
416
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417PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
418
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419PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
420 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
421 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
422
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423PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
424 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
425 one case where this was not true.
426
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427PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
428 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
429 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
430 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
431 fails.
432
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433PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
434 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
435 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
436 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
437 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
438 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
439 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
440 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
441 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
442 smtp transport.
443
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444PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
445 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
446 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
447 same for both kinds of LMTP.
448
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449PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
450 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
451
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452PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
453 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
454 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
455
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456PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
457
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458PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
459
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460PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
461
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462PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
463 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
464 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
465 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
466
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467PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
468 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
469
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470PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
471 be meaningful with "accept".
472
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473SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
474 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
475
476SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
477 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
478 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
479
480SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
481 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
482 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
483 there is data to show.
484 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
485
486SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
487 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
488 as well as the number of messages.
489
490SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
491 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
492 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
493
494SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
495 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
496 have a flag are now skipped.
497
498SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
499 Added the -emptyok flag.
500
501SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
502 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
503
0ea2a468
JJ
504JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
505 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
506 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
507
508JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
509 match 4.64-PH/13
510
511JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
512 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
513
514JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
515
516JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
517 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
518
8a10f5a4
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519PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
520
30e18802
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521PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
522 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
523 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
524 contravention of the specifications.
525
55728a4f
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526PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
527 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
528 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 529
d7837193
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530PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
531 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
532 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
533
87054a31
PH
534PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
535
ea2c01d2
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536MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
537 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
538 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
539 some point in the past.
540
e4fa6968
PH
541PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
542 transport during callout processing was broken.
543
56f5d9bd
PH
544PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
545 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
546
922e1c28
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547PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
548 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
549
21eb6e72
PH
550PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
551 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
552
a0540757
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553PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
554
944e9e9c 555
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556Exim version 4.63
557-----------------
558
559SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
560 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
561
562SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
563 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
564 there is data to show.
565 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
566
567SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
568 as the number of messages in eximstats.
569
2b965a65
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570TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
571 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 572
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573TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
574 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 575
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576TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
577 submissions from trusted users.
578
90fc3069
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579TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
580 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
581
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582TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
583 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
584 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
585 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
586 there is now a framework to start from.
587
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588PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
589 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
590 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
591
4e167a8c
PH
592PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
593
4608d683
PH
594PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
595
b8dc3e4a
PH
596PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
597
5418e93b
PH
598PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
599 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
600 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
601
b4a9bda2
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602PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
603 libradius.
604
45b91596
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605PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
606 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
607 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
608
5547e2c5
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609PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
610 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
611 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
612 its arguments.
613
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614PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
615 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
616 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
617 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
618 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
619
25257489
PH
620PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
621 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
622
c816d124
PH
623PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
624
a9ccd69a
PH
625PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
626 operations in malware.c.
627
75fa1910
PH
628PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
629 signatures.
630
a7d7aa58
PH
631PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
632 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
633 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
634 all.
635
42119b09
PH
636PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
637 statements to "add_header".
638
41609df5
PH
639PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
640 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
641
a5bd321b
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642PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
643 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
644 latter.
645
e85a7ad5 646PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
647 so that it is now:
648
e85a7ad5
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649 ${if or { \
650 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
651 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
652 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
653 }{no}{yes}}
654
e85a7ad5
PH
655 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
656 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 657
d8fe1c03
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658PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
659 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
660
16282d2b
PH
661PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
662 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
663 any possible encoding problems.
664
35d40a98
PH
665PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
666 but not after initializing Perl.
667
034d99ab
PH
668PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
669 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
670 apparently, which is not desirable.
671
6ec97b1b
PH
672PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
673 queries.
674
e22ca4ac
JJ
675JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
676 --not options
677
678JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
679
33d73e3b
PH
680PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
681 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
682 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
683 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
684
9ecb03f3
PH
685PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
686 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
687 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
688
084efe8d
PH
689PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
690 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
691 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
692 0.12.
693
366fc9f0
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694PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
695 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
696 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
697 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
698 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
699
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701Exim version 4.62
702-----------------
703
704TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
705 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
706
1cce3af8
PH
707PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
708 patch).
709
afb3eaaf
PH
710PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
711 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
712 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
713 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
714 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
715 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
716 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
717 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
718 451 error is used.
719
e173618b
PH
720PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
721
dd16e114
PH
722PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
723 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
724 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
725
f7fd3850
PH
726PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
727 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
728 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
729 odd errors.
730
d87df92c
PH
731PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
732 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
733
7e9f683d
PH
734PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
735 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
736 option (which defaults to 0600).
737
bfad5236
PH
738PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
739
01c490df
PH
740PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
741 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
742 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
743 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
744 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
745 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
746 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
747
d6629cdc
PH
748PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
749
1cce3af8 750
214e2000
PH
751Exim version 4.61
752-----------------
753
754PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
755 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
756 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
757 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
758 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
759 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
760 addresses as local.
761
f9daeae0
PH
762PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
763 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
764
7e66e54d
PH
765PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
766
c8ea1597
PH
767PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
768 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
769 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
770 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
771 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
772 grumble.
773
911f6fde
PH
774PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
775 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
776
47ca6d6c
PH
777PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
778 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
779 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
780 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
781 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
782
ed0e9820
PH
783PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
784 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
785 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
786 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
787
eff37e47
PH
788PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
789 be the same on different OS.
790
1921d2ea
PH
791PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
792 testing.
793
b3f69ca8
JJ
794JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
795 whether --show-vars was specified or not
796
797JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
798 in 4.61-PH/06
799
424a1c63
PH
800PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
801 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
802 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
803 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
804 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
805 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
806 bounce message.
807
7a100415
PH
808PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
809 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
810 when Exim was called.
811
19b9dc85
PH
812PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
813 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
814
309bd837
PH
815PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
816 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
817 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
818 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
819
59e82a2a
PH
820PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
821 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
822 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
823 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
824 changes:
825
826 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
827 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
828 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
829
830 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
831 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
832 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
833
9edc04ce
PH
834PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
835 feature).
836
1349e1e5
PH
837PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
838 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
839 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
840 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
841 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
842 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
843 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
844 values from the SRV records were lost.
845
ea49d0e1
PH
846PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
847 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
848 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
849
064a94c9
PH
850PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
851 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
852 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
853
727071f8
PH
854PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
855 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
856 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
857 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
858 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
859 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
860 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
861 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
862 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 863 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 864
f78eb7c6
PH
865PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
866 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
867 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
868
21c28500
PH
869PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
870 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
871
872PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
873 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
874 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
875 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
876 is given.
877
1688f43b
PH
878PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
879 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
880 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
881
882PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
883 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
884 PH/23 above applies.
885
9675b384
PH
886PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
887 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
888 (for which there is an explicit test).
889
6a3f1455
PH
890PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
891
dac79d3e
PH
892PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
893 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
894 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
895 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
896 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 897
5977a0b3
PH
898PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
899 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
900 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
901 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
902
c91535f3
PH
903PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
904 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
905 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
906
0d46a8c8
PH
907PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
908
278c6e6c
PH
909PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
910
2cbb4081
PH
911PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
912 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
913 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
914
3eef829e
PH
915PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
916 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
917 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
918 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
919 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
920
1ab95fa6
PH
921PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
922 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
923 the message gets confusing).
924
230205fc
PH
925PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
926 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
927 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
928 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
929
75e0e026
PH
930PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
931 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
932 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
933 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
934 same order.
935
936PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
937 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
938 the different processes.
939
145396a6
PH
940PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
941
3cd34f13
PH
942PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
943
11121d3d
JJ
944JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
945 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
946
947JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
948 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
949
950JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
951 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
952 messages matching specified criteria.
953
8def5aaf
PH
954PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
955
929ba01c
PH
956PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
957 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
958
2632889e
PH
959PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
960 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
961 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
962 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
963 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
964 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
965 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
966 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
967 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
968 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
969
944a9c55
PH
970PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
971 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
972 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
973
4a23603b
PH
974PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
975
4730f942
PH
976PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
977 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
978 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
979 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
980 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
981 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
982 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
983 the variable.
984
30dba1e6
PH
985PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
986 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
987
382afc6b
PH
988PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
989
a86229cf
PH
990PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
991
50c99ba6
PH
992PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
993
d35e429d
PH
994PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
995 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
996 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
997 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
998 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
999 size of the count of files.
1000
f90d018c
PH
1001PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1002
75def545
PH
1003PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1004 used in LMTP mode:
1005
1006 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1007 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1008 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1009 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1010
1011 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1012 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1013 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1014
1015PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1016 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1017 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1018 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1019 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1020
c46782ef
PH
1021PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1022 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1023
71fafd95
PH
1024PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1025 will now be deprecated.
1026
2c5db4fd
PH
1027PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1028
9cf6b11a
JJ
1029JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1030 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1031 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1032
1033JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1034 with very large, slow to parse queues
1035
1036JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1037
1038JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1039
898d150f
PH
1040PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1041 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1042 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1043 SMTP output lines.
1044
46218253
PH
1045PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1046 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1047 Sieve code now uses this.
1048
e97957bc
PH
1049PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1050 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1051
81e509d7
PH
1052PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1053 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1054
3d240ff7
PH
1055PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1056
b37c4101
PH
1057PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1058 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1059 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1060 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1061 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1062
79378e0f
PH
1063PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1064 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1065 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1066 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1067
e49c7bb4
PH
1068PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1069
d114ec46
PH
1070PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1071
f3d7df6c
PH
1072PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1073 is preferred over IPv4.
1074
715ab376
PH
1075PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1076 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1077 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1078 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1079 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1080 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1081 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1082
6b31b150
PH
1083PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1084 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1085 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1086
1087PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1088
d515a917
PH
1089PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1090 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1091 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1092 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1093 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1094 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1095 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1096 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1097 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1098 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1099 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1100
9b8fadde
PH
1101PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1102 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1103 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1104
214e2000 1105
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1106Exim version 4.60
1107-----------------
1108
cc38ddbf
PH
1109PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1110
1111 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1112 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1113
1114 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1115 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1116 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1117
72fdd6ae
PH
1118PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1119
1120 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1121 not a single digit.
1122
1123 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1124 string.
1125
1126 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1127 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1128 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1129 silly things.
1130
1131 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1132 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1133
1134 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1135 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1136
cb741023
PH
1137PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1138 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1139 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1140
f174f16e
PH
1141PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1142 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1143
c25242d7
PH
1144PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1145 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1146
1147 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1148
1149 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1150 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1151 this:
1152
1153 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1154
82c19f95
PH
1155PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1156 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1157 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1158 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1159 identical. For example:
1160
1161 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1162
1163 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1164 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1165 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1166
d7ffbc12
PH
1167PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1168 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1169 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1170 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1171
9f526266
PH
1172PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1173 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1174 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1175 message.
1176
87fcc8b9
PH
1177PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1178
1179 o fixes some comments
1180 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1181 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1182 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1183 and documents the missing references header update
1184
1185 and most important:
1186
1187 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1188 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1189 result)
1190
456682f5
PH
1191PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1192 Electronic Mail") by including:
1193
1194 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1195
1196 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1197 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1198 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1199 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1200 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1201
1202 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1203
1204 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1205
1206 The auto-replied keyword:
1207
1208 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1209 message by an automatic process,
1210
1211 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1212
1213 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1214 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1215
1216 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1217 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1218 other messages.
1219
3e46c1aa
PH
1220PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1221 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 1222
49826d12
PH
1223PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1224
eba0c039
PH
1225PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1226 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1227 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1228
a0d6ba8a
PH
1229PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1230 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1231 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1232
f0917727
PH
1233PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1234 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1235 and treats the condition as false.
1236
096fee00
PH
1237PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1238
024bd3c2
PH
1239PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1240 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1241 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1242 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1243 not changing the active code.
1244
1245 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1246 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1247
1248 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1249 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1250
df199fec
PH
1251PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1252 (Bugzilla #53).
1253
d27f1df3
PH
1254PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1255 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1256 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1257 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1258 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1259 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1260 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1261 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1262 the text comparison.
1263
96776534
PH
1264PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1265 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1266 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1267 The same fix has been applied.
1268
5de37277 1269
9a799bc0
PH
1270Exim version 4.54
1271-----------------
1272
1273PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1274 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1275 It now does.
1276
99a4b039
PH
1277PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1278 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1279
1280PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1281
4b233853
PH
1282PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1283 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1284 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1285 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1286 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1287
8857ccfd
PH
1288TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1289 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1290 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1291 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1292 or /domain=).
1293
433a2980
PH
1294PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1295 testing suite.
1296
3e46c1aa 1297
9a799bc0 1298
e3a311ba
TK
1299Exim version 4.53
1300-----------------
1301
1302TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1303 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1304
13b685f9
PH
1305PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1306
395ff96d
PH
1307PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1308
5b68f6e4
PH
1309PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1310 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1311 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1312
1ab52c69
PH
1313PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1314 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1315 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1316
b07e6aa3
PH
1317PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1318 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1319 operating systems.
1320
254e032f
PH
1321PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1322 ${stat: expansion item.
1323
3af76a81
PH
1324PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1325 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1326
2548ba04
PH
1327PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1328 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1329 file for comments.
1330
b6c6011d
PH
1331PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1332
cf39cf57
PH
1333PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1334 setting.
1335
f1513293
PH
1336PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1337 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1338
727549a4
PH
1339TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1340
af46795e
PH
1341PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1342 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1343 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1344 the end of the subprocess.
1345
d7b47fd0
PH
1346PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
1347 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
1348 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
1349 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
1350 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
1351
ee744174
JJ
1352JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
1353
b582ab87
PH
1354TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
1355
41a13e0a
PH
1356PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
1357 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
1358
f625cc5a
PH
1359PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
1360
1361PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
1362
21f7af35
PH
1363PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
1364 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
1365 HP-UX compiler.
1366
31480e42
PH
1367PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
1368
2d280592
PH
1369PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
1370 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
1371 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
1372
7cd1141b
PH
1373PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
1374 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
1375
1376PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
1377 host errors such as "Connection refused".
1378
750af86e
PH
1379PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
1380 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
1381
1382 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
1383 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
1384
1385 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
1386 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
1387 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
1388 contributed by a Radius user.
1389
1390PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
1391 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
1392
4304270b
TK
1393TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
1394 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
1395
750af86e
PH
1396PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
1397 available.
1398
64ffc24f
PH
1399PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
1400 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
1401 received.
1402
5dd9625b
PH
1403PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
1404 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
1405 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
1406 header lines when this was not necessary.
1407
5591031b
PH
1408PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
1409
ba18e66a
PH
1410PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
1411 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
1412 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
1413 exists".
1414
9cec981f
PH
1415PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
1416 -bV or -d is used.
1417
aa2b5c79
PH
1418PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
1419 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
1420 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
1421 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 1422
48a53b7f
PH
1423PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
1424
1c59d63b
PH
1425PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
1426
671012da
TK
1427TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
1428
1509d3a8
PH
1429PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
1430
1431PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
1432 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
1433 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
1434 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
1435 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
1436 settings.
1437
1438PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
1439
2fe1a124
PH
1440PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
1441 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
1442 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
1443 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
1444 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
1445 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
1446 which is clearly wrong.
1447
8800895a
PH
1448PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
1449
ccfdb010
PH
1450PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
1451 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
1452 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
1453 subsequently added.
1454
1130bfb0
PH
1455PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
1456 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
1457
ebcb507f
PH
1458PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
1459
c35e155c
PH
1460PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
1461 the "build-* directories that it finds.
1462
95d1f782
PH
1463PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
1464 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
1465
fd6de02e
PH
1466PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
1467 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
1468
58de37c5
PH
1469PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
1470 recipients, not senders.
1471
261cf466
TF
1472TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
1473 the ratelimit ACL was added.
1474
3ee512ff
PH
1475PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
1476
e08c430f
PH
1477PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
1478
bef5a11f
PH
1479PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
1480 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
1481 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
1482 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
1483
7546de58
TF
1484TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
1485
e5d5a95f
TF
1486TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
1487 clock is set back in time.
1488
2e88a017
TF
1489TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
1490 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
1491
a5f65aa4
TF
1492TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
1493 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
1494
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1495PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
1496 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
1497 (see PH/47 above).
1498
a7fdad5b
TF
1499TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
1500 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
1501 header rewrites.
1502
6af56900
PH
1503PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
1504 type ("H").
1505
0925ede6
PH
1506PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
1507
66afa403
TF
1508TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
1509 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
1510 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
1511
0154e85a
TF
1512TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
1513 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
1514 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
1515 helo verification defer as a failure.
1516
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1517PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
1518 actual error message.
1519
bbe902f0 1520
e5a9dba6
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1521Exim version 4.52
1522-----------------
1523
1524TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
1525
22c3b60b
PH
1526PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
1527 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
1528 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
1529 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
1530
06a9b4b5
PH
1531TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
1532
c1ac6996
PH
1533PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
1534 can still be requested.
1535
9c7a242c
PH
1536PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
1537 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
1538 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
1539 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
1540
87ba3f5f
PH
1541TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
1542 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
1543 circumstances, but probably never did.
1544
1545PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
1546 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
1547 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
1548 in the header line.
1549
29aba418
TF
1550TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
1551
fe0dab11
TF
1552TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
1553 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 1554
11d337a4
TK
1555TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
1556
1557TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
1558
415c8f3b
PH
1559PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
1560 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
1561 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
1562 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
1563 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
1564 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 1565
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PH
1566PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
1567 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
1568 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
1569 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
1570 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
1571 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
1572
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TK
1573TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
1574 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
1575
2a4be8f9
PH
1576PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
1577 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
1578
1cba11c5
SC
1579SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
1580 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
1581
1582SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
1583
1584SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
1585
1586SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
1587
1588SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
1589
1590SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
1591
1592SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
1593
1005d00e
TK
1594TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
1595
1596TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
1597 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
1598 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
1599
1600TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
1601 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
1602 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
1603 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
1604
9b4768fa
PH
1605PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
1606 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
1607 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
1608
1609PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
1610 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
1611 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
1612 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
1613
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1614PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
1615 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
1616 to be made).
1617
1618PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
1619 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
1620 should work with maildirs and everything.
1621
40727bee
TK
1622TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
1623 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
1624
554d2369
TF
1625TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
1626 <jgh@wizmail.org>
1627
1f922db1
PH
1628PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
1629 function for BDB 4.3.
1630
ef213c3b
PH
1631PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
1632
8ac170f3
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1633PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
1634 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
1635 involved.
1636
b1c749bb
PH
1637PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
1638 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
1639 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
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1640 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
1641 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
1642 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 1643
4aac9b49
PH
1644PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
1645 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
1646 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
1647 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
1648 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
1649 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
1650 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
1651 falls back to the previous guessing code."
1652
294520c8
TK
1653TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
1654 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
1655 details.
1656
5bd022fe
PH
1657PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
1658 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
1659
90e9ce59
PH
1660PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
1661 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
1662 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
1663 test. It is now used for both.
1664
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PH
1665PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
1666 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
1667 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
1668 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
1669 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
1670 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
1671
c6c2dc1d
PH
1672PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
1673 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
1674 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
1675 string_vformat().
1676
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PH
1677PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
1678 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
1679 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 1680
9a26b6b2
PH
1681PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
1682 experimental DomainKeys support:
1683
1684 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
1685 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
1686 the control was given.
1687
1688 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
1689
4aee0225
PH
1690PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
1691
32d668a5
PH
1692PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
1693
8187c3f3
PH
1694PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
1695 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
1696 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
1697 db.h files).
1698
ff790e47 1699PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
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1700 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
1701 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
1702 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
1703 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
1704 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
1705 course.
ff790e47 1706
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1707PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
1708 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
1709 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
1710 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
1711 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
1712 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
1713
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1714PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
1715 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
1716 do -d+all out of habit.
1717
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1718PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
1719 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
1720 x86_64 Fedora Core.
1721
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1722PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
1723 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
1724 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
1725 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
1726 record types that Exim uses.
1727
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1728PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
1729 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
1730 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
1731 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
1732 non-existent file that was broken.
1733
b0d9fc80
TK
1734TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
1735 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
1736
1737TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
1738 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
1739 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
1740
1741TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
1742
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1743PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
1744 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
1745 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
1746 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
1747 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
1748 same time.
1749
a388bce4
SC
1750SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
1751 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
1752 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
1753 at a slight CPU cost.
1754
1755SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
1756 as requested by Marc Sherman.
1757
1758SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
1759 by Marc Sherman.
1760
0793e4ed
SC
1761SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
1762
c58b88df
PH
1763PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
1764 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
1765
e7ad8a65 1766
7982096b
PH
1767Exim version 4.51
1768-----------------
1769
1a46a8c5
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1770TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
1771 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
1772
2f079f46 1773TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
1774
1775TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
1776
1777PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
1778 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
1779
1780PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
1781 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
1782 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
1783 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
1784 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
1785 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
1786 file.
1787
1788PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
1789 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
1790 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
1791 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
1792 these two options.
1793
1794PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
1795 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
1796 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
1797 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
1798 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
1799 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
1800 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 1801 address.
1a46a8c5
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1802
1803PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
1804 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
1805
1806PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
1807 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
1808 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
1809 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
1810 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
1811 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
1812
1813PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
1814 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
1815 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
1816 SMTP commands that take arguments.
1817
1818PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
1819 Finch).
1820
1821PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
1822 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 1823
49c2d5ea
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1824PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
1825 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
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1826 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
1827 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
1828 message.
49c2d5ea 1829
bf759a8b
PH
1830PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
1831
83364d30
PH
1832PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
1833 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
1834
7999bbd7
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1835PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
1836 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
1837 to what was transported.)
1838
7dbf77c9
PH
1839TF/01 Added $received_time.
1840
74e0617f
PH
1841PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
1842 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
1843 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
1844 spamd_address settings.
1845
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1846PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
1847 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
1848 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
1849 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
1850 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
1851
8c841523
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1852PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1853
7766a4f0
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1854PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
1855 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
1856 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
1857 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
1858 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
1859
8b417f2c
PH
1860PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
1861 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
1862
901f42cb
PH
1863PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
1864 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
1865 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
1866 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
1867 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
1868 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
1869 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
1870 for failure.
1871
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1872PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
1873 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
1874 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
1875 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
1876 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
1877 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
1878 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
1879 "input=".
1880
54cdb463
PH
1881PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
1882
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1883PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
1884 driver and ACL definitions.
1885
acb1b346
PH
1886PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
1887 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
1888
c5ddb310
PH
1889PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
1890 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
1891 understands it better than I do:
1892
1893 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
1894 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
1895
1896 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
1897 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
1898 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
1899 => three warnings about OTP not working
1900 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
1901
1902 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
1903 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
1904 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
1905 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
1906 for each call.)
1907 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
1908 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
1909
1910 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
1911 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
1912 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
1913
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1914PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
1915 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
1916 specified.
1917
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1918PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
1919 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
1920 "Linux".
1921
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PH
1922PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
1923 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
1924 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
1925
1926 warn !verify = sender
1927 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
1928
1929 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
1930 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
1931
7e8bec7a
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1932PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
1933
1934 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
1935 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
1936
1937 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
1938 nomenclature these days.)
1939
e4a89c47
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1940PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
1941 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
1942
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1943PH/30 In these circumstances:
1944 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
1945 . First host does not offer TLS;
1946 . First host accepts first address;
1947 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
1948 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
1949 . Second host accepts second address.
1950 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
1951 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
1952 address.
7e8bec7a 1953
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1954PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
1955 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
1956 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
1957 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
1958 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
1959
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1960PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
1961 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
1962
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1963PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
1964 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 1965
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1966PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
1967 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
1968 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
1969
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1970PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
1971 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
1972 overlooked.
1973
1974PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
1975
d7174846
PH
1976PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
1977 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
1978 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
1979 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
1980 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
1981 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
1982 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
1983
1984 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
1985 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
1986 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
1987 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
1988 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
1989
1990 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
1991 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
1992 routed further.
1993
cfe75fc3
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1994PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
1995 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
1996 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
1997 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
1998 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
1999 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2000
be22d70e
PH
2001PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2002
0612b098
PH
2003PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2004 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2005 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2006 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2007 printable escape sequences.
2008
2e0c1448
PH
2009PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2010 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2011 body only.
2012
447d236c
PH
2013PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2014 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2015 are as follows:
2016
2017 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2018 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2019 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2020 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2021 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2022
2023 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2024 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2025 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2026
d20976dc
PH
2027PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2028
f656d135
PH
2029PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2030 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2031 play with."
2032
2e2a30b4
PH
2033PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2034 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2035 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2036 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2037 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2038 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2039 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2040 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2041 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2042 the log output.
2043
9176e9f0
PH
2044PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2045 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2046 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2047 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2048 "make".
2049
7982096b 2050
bbe902f0
PH
2051A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2052----------------------------------------
2053
2054Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2055changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2056needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2057in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2058that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2059release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2060from 4.43.
2061
2062I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
20634.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2064those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2065historical information.
2066
2067
f7b63901 2068Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2069-----------------
2070
5fe762f6
PH
2071 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2072
139059f6 2073 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2074 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2075
7086e875
PH
2076 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2077 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2078 place.
2079
35af9f61
PH
2080 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2081 filter fails to execute.
2082
b668c215
PH
2083 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2084 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2085 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2086 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2087 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2088
a494b1e1
PH
2089 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2090
2091 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2092 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2093 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2094 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2095
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PH
2096 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2097 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2098 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2099 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2100 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2101
69358f02
PH
2102 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2103
5be20824
PH
210410. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2105
eb2c0248
PH
210611. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2107 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2108 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2109 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2110
2a3eea10
PH
211112. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2112 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2113 sender verification.
2114
211513. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2116 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2117
23c7ff99
PH
211814. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2119
4deaf07d
PH
212015. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2121 connection timeout.
2122
926e1192
PH
212316. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2124 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2125
650edc6f
PH
212617. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2127 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2128
2c7db3f5
PH
212918. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2130 information about exactly what failed.
2131
3d235903
PH
213219. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2133
7c7ad977
PH
213420. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2135 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2136 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2137
981756db
PH
213821. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2139 It is now set to "smtps".
2140
d4eb88df
PH
214122. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2142 ignore_target_hosts.
2143
214423. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2145 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2146 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2147 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2148 "[x.x.x.x]".
2149
7d468ab8
PH
215024. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2151 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2152 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2153
215425. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2155 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2156 wake it up if nothing else does.
2157
62c0818f
PH
215826. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2159 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2160 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2161 end up negative.
2162
26034054
PH
216327. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2164 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2165
af66f652
PH
216628. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2167
90af77f4
PH
216829. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2169 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2170 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2171 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2172 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2173 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2174 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2175 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2176
d8ef3577
PH
217730. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2178 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2179 than one IP address.
2180
5cb8cbc6
PH
218131. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2182 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2183 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2184 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2185
14702f5b
PH
218632. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2187 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2188 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2189 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2190 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2191 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2192
063b1e99
PH
219333. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2194 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2195 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2196 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2197
652e1b65
PH
219834. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2199 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2200 respected.
2201
6f0c9a4f
PH
220235. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2203 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2204 $sender_host_address.
2205
33397d19
PH
220636. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2207 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2208 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2209 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2210 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2211 very small.
2212
7bb56e1f
PH
221337. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2214
2215 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2216 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2217
ea3bc19b
PH
2218 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2219 just the host names, not the priorities.
2220
2221 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
2222 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2223 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 2224
ea3bc19b 2225 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 2226 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 2227
0bcb2a0e
PH
222838. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2229 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2230 domain.
2231
2ac0e484
PH
223239. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2233
4e1fde53
PH
223440. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2235 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2236
de365ded
PH
223741. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2238 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2239 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2240
f05da2e8
PH
224142. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2242
d6453af2
PH
224343. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2244
f7b63901
PH
224544. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2246
224745. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2248 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2249 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2250 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2251 because the tests only now provoked it.
2252
a444213a
PH
225346. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2254 (this can affect the format of dates).
2255
0ec020ea
PH
225647. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2257 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2258 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2259 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2260
b1206957
PH
226148. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2262
226349. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2264 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2265 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2266 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2267
26dd5a95
PH
226850. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2269 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2270 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2271
343b2385
PH
227251. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2273 autoreply.
2274
1c5466b9
PH
227552. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2276 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2277 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2278 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2279 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2280 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2281 is going on).
2282
55ee9ee3
PH
228353. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2284 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2285 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2286 the line.
2287
d38f8232
PH
228854. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2289 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2290 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2291
2292 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2293 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2294 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2295 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2296 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2297 so I produce this patch..."
2298
3295e65b
PH
2299 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2300 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2301 is not defined.
2302
7102e136
PH
230355. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2304 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
2305 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2306 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 2307 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 2308
3ca0ba97
PH
230956. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2310
c2bcbe20
PH
231157. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2312 long debug lines gets shown.
2313
18ce445d
PH
231458. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2315 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2316
1f5b4c3d
PH
231759. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2318
2319 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2320 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2321 of $primary_hostname.
2322
b975ba52
PH
232360. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2324 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2325 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2326 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
2327 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2328 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2329 by change 4.50/55 above.
2330
2331 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2332 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2333 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2334 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2335 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2336 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 2337 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
2338
233961. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2340 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2341 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 2342 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 2343
17ffcae7
PH
234462. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2345 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2346
d95f9fdb
PH
234763. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2348 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2349 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2350 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2351 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2352
86b8287f
PH
235364. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
2354 This has been fixed.
2355
60dc5e56
PH
235665. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2357 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2358 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2359 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2360 the caching.)
2361
533244af
PH
236266. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
2363
a5a28604
PH
236467. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
2365 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
2366 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
2367 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
2368
7e634d24
PH
236968. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
2370 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
2371
3e11c26b
PH
237269. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
2373 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
2374 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
2375
6729cf78
PH
237670. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
2377 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
2378 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
2379 message there.
2380
00f00ca5
PH
238171. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
2382 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
2383 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
2384
c9bdd01c
PH
238572. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
2386 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
2387 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
2388 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
2389
d43194df
PH
239073. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
2391 during host lookups.
2392
fe5b5d0b
PH
239374. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
2394 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
2395
2396 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
2397
76a2d7ba
PH
239875. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
2399 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
2400 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
2401 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
2402 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
2403 background.
2404
240576. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
2406 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
2407
04f7d5b9
PH
240877. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
2409 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
2410 for the non-SMTP ACL.
2411
bc60667e
PH
241278. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
2413
bb6e88ff
PH
241479. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
2415 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
2416 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
2417 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
2418 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
2419 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
2420 process earlier.
2421
1e70f85b
PH
242280. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
2423 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
2424 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
2425 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
2426 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
2427
242881. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
2429 tables).
2430
4e01f9d6
PH
243182. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
2432
1ee1cef2
PH
243383. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
2434 "vacation" handling.
2435
6e2b4ccc
PH
243684. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
2437 OS variants using glibc.
2438
8e669ac1
PH
243985. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
2440
495ae4b0 2441
bbe902f0
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2442----------------------------------------------------
2443See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
2444----------------------------------------------------
2445
2446
2447Exim version 4.44
2448-----------------
2449
2450 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
2451 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
2452 transport
2453
2454 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2455 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2456 place.
2457
2458 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2459 filter fails to execute.
2460
2461 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2462 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2463 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2464 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2465 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2466
2467 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2468 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2469 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2470 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
2471
2472 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2473 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2474 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2475 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2476 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2477
2478 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2479
2480 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2481 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2482 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2483 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2484
2485 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2486 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2487 sender verification.
2488
248910. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2490 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2491
249211. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2493 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2494
249512. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2496 ignore_target_hosts.
2497
249813. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2499 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2500 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2501 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2502 "[x.x.x.x]".
2503
250414. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2505 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2506 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2507
250815. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2509 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2510 wake it up if nothing else does.
2511
251216. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2513 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2514 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2515 end up negative.
2516
251717. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2518 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2519
ea3a6f44 252018. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
2521
252219. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
2523 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
2524 empty pattern.
2525
252620. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
2527 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
2528 one IP address.
2529
ea3a6f44
NM
253021. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2531 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2532 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2533 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2534 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2535 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 2536
ea3a6f44
NM
253722. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2538 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2539 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
2540
254123. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2542 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2543 $sender_host_address.
2544
254524. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
2546
ea3a6f44
NM
254725. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2548 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2549 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
2550
255126. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 2552 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 2553
ea3a6f44
NM
255427. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2555 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 2556
ea3a6f44
NM
255728. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2558 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2559 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2560 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
2561
256229. eximstats updated to version 1.35
2563 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
2564 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
2565
ea3a6f44
NM
256630. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2567 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2568 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2569 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 2570
ea3a6f44
NM
257131. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2572 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2573 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 2574
ea3a6f44
NM
257531. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2576 autoreply.
bbe902f0 2577
ea3a6f44
NM
257832. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2579 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2580 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2581 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2582 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2583 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2584 is going on).
bbe902f0 2585
ea3a6f44
NM
258633. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2587 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
2588 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2589 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
2590 CAN-2005-0021
2591
ea3a6f44
NM
259234. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2593 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2594 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2595 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
2596 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2597 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2598 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
2599
2600 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2601 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2602 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2603 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2604 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2605 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
2606 CAN-2005-0021
2607
ea3a6f44
NM
260835. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2609 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2610 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
2611 CAN-2005-0022
2612
ea3a6f44
NM
261336. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
2614 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
2615 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
2616 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
2617 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 2618
ea3a6f44
NM
261937. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
2620 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
2621 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
2622 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
2623 the caching.)
bbe902f0 2624
ea3a6f44
NM
262538. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2626 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2627 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2628 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2629 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
2630
2631
495ae4b0
PH
2632Exim version 4.43
2633-----------------
2634
2635 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
2636 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
2637 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
2638 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
2639 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
2640 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
2641 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
2642
2643 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
2644 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
2645 the delivery.
2646
2647 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
2648
2649 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
2650
2651 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
2652 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
2653 to local_scan().
2654
2655 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
2656 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
2657 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
2658 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
2659 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
2660
2661 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
2662 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
2663
2664 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
2665
2666 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
2667
266810. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
2669 header_sender only.
2670
267111. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
2672 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
2673
267412. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
2675 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
2676 affecting debugging statements).
2677
267813. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
2679
268014. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
2681 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
2682 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
2683 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
2684 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
2685 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
2686 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
2687 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
2688 after the received time, and all would be well.
2689
269015. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
2691 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
2692 condition in an expansion string.
2693
269416. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
2695
269617. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
2697 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
2698 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
2699 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
2700 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
2701 job under whatever limits there are.
2702
270318. Imported PCRE 5.0.
2704
270519. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
2706 space).
2707
270820. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
2709 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
2710 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
2711 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
2712 return path is set.
2713
271421. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
2715 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
2716 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
2717 binary data in such strings.
2718
271922. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
2720
272123. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
2722 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
2723 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
2724 failure, which is pointless.
2725
272624. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
2727
272825. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
2729
273026. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
2731 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
2732 Sender: header lines.
2733
273427. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
2735 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
2736 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
2737
273828. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
2739 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
2740 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
2741 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
2742 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
2743 happens.
2744
274529. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
2746 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
2747 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
2748 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
2749 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
2750
275130. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
2752 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
2753 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
2754 1024.
2755
275631. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
2757 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
2758
275932. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
2760 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
2761
276233. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
2763
276432. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
2765
276633. Added an ACL for QUIT.
2767
276834. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
2769 syntax error.
2770
277135. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
2772
277336. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
2774
277537. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
2776 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
2777 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
2778 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
2779
278038. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
2781 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
2782
2783
2784Exim version 4.42
2785-----------------
2786
2787 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
2788 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
2789 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
2790 it was not quoted.
2791 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
2792 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
2793 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
2794 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
2795 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
2796 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
2797
2798 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
2799 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
2800 verification failure".
2801
2802 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
2803 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
2804 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
2805 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
2806
2807 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
2808 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
2809 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
2810 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
2811 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
2812 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
2813 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
2814 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
2815 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
2816 treated as a timeout.
2817
2818 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
2819 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
2820 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
2821 not set for Exim filters).
2822
2823 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
2824 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
2825 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
2826
2827 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
2828
2829 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
2830 try to make them clearer.
2831
2832 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
2833 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
2834
2835 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
2836
2837 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
2838
283910. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
2840 only the Cygwin environment.
2841
284211. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
2843 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
2844 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
2845 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
2846 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
2847
284812. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
2849 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
2850 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
2851 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
2852 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
2853 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
2854 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
2855
285613. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
2857 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
2858
285914. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
2860
2861 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
2862 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
2863 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
2864
2865 To: susanne@some.where
2866
2867 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
2868 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
2869 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
2870 of addresses in From: header lines).
2871
2872 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
2873 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
2874 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
2875
2876 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
2877 treated as non-personal.
2878
2879 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
2880 because it now seems ill-conceived.
2881
288215. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
2883
288416. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
2885
288617. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
2887 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
2888 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
2889
289018. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
2891 ACL and the local_scan() function.
2892
289319. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
2894 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
2895 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
2896 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
2897 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
2898 (I found it when inspecting the code).
2899
290020. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
2901 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
2902 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
2903 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
2904 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
2905 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
2906 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
2907 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
2908
2909 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
2910
291121. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
2912 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
2913
291422. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
2915 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
2916 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
2917
291823. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
2919 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
2920
292124. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
2922 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
2923 rather than long int.
2924
292525. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2926
292726. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
2928
2929
2930Exim version 4.41
2931-----------------
2932
2933 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
2934 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
2935 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
2936 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
2937 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
2938 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
2939
2940
2941Exim version 4.40
2942-----------------
2943
2944 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
2945 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
2946
2947 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
2948 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
2949 socklen_t is defined.
2950
2951 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
2952 always exist.
2953
2954 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
2955 configured.
2956
2957 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
2958 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
2959 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
2960 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
2961 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
2962
2963 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
2964 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
2965 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
2966 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
2967
2968 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
2969 of flapping under certain conditions.
2970
2971 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
2972 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
2973 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
2974
2975 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2976
297710. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
2978
297911. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
2980 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
2981 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
2982 the duration of the SMTP connection.
2983
298412. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
2985 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
2986 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
2987 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
2988 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
2989 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
2990 preserved with the message after it was received.
2991
299213. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
2993 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
2994 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
2995 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
2996 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
2997 test suite worked just fine.
2998
299914. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3000 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3001 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3002
300315. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3004 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3005 string.
3006
300716. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3008 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3009 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3010 does not fully solve it.
3011
301217. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3013 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3014 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3015 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3016 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3017
301818. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3019 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3020 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3021
302219. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3023 string, for example:
3024
3025 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3026
3027 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3028 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3029 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3030 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3031 the routers could not see them.
3032
303320. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3034 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3035
303621. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3037 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3038 output).
3039
304022. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3041 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3042 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3043 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3044 that needed quoting.
3045
304623. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3047 was not being matched caselessly.
3048
304924. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3050 backslashes.
3051
305225. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3053 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3054 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3055 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3056 when use_sender is false.
3057
305826. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3059
306027. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3061
306228. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3063
306429. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3065 the configuration file.
3066
306730. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3068 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3069
307031. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3071
307232. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3073 bytes in the message body.
3074
307533. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3076 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3077 delivery.
3078
307934. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3080
308135. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3082
308336. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3084 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3085 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3086 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3087 another IP address.
3088
3089
3090Exim version 4.34
3091-----------------
3092
3093 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3094 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3095
3096 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3097 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3098 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3099 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3100 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3101
3102 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3103 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3104
3105 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3106 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
3107 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
3108
3109 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
3110 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
3111 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
3112
3113 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
3114 for routers.
3115
3116 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
3117 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
3118 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
3119 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
3120 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
3121 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
3122 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
3123
3124
3125Exim version 4.33
3126-----------------
3127
3128 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
3129 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
3130 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
3131 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
3132 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
3133 default (and expected) setting.
3134
3135 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
3136 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
3137 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
3138 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
3139
3140 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
3141 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
3142
3143 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
3144 in domain lists.
3145
3146 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
3147 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
3148 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
3149 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
3150 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
3151 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
3152
3153 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
3154 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
3155 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
3156
3157 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
3158 part (NOT match_host).
3159
3160 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
3161
3162 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
3163 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
3164 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
3165 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
3166 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
3167 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
3168 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
3169 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
3170 the same named file.
3171
317210. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
3173 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
3174 when Exim is built.
3175
317611. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
3177 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
3178 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
3179 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
3180 a host name.
3181
318212. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
3183 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
3184 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
3185
318613. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
3187
318814. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
3189
319015. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
3191
319216. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
3193 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
3194
319517. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
3196 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
3197 before starting the TLS session.
3198
319918. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
3200
320119. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
3202 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
3203
320420. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
3205 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
3206 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
3207 colon in the middle).
3208
3209
3210Exim version 4.32
3211-----------------
3212
3213 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
3214 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
3215 multiple configurations are in use.
3216
3217 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
3218 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
3219 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
3220 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
3221 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
3222 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
3223
3224 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
3225 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
3226
3227 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
3228 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
3229 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
3230
3231 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
3232 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
3233 occurs.
3234
3235 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
3236 that used bh_ and bheader_.
3237
3238 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
3239
3240 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
3241 allowing one more file than it should have been.
3242
3243 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
3244
3245 -prval:sval
3246
3247 is equivalent to
3248
3249 -oMr rval -oMs sval
3250
3251 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
3252 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
3253 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
3254 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
3255 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
3256
325710. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
3258 Exim's behaviour:
3259
3260 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
3261 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
3262 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
3263 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
3264 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
3265 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
3266
3267 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
3268 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
3269 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
3270 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
3271 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
3272 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
3273 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
3274 string.
3275
3276 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
3277 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
3278 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
3279 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
3280 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
3281
328211. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
3283
328412. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
3285 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
3286 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
3287
328813. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
3289
329014. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
3291 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
3292 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
3293 information.
3294
329515. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
3296 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
3297
329816. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
3299 Three changes have been made:
3300
3301 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
3302 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
3303 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
3304 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
3305 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
3306
3307 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
3308 been restored.
3309
3310 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
3311 the modified behaviour.
3312
3313
3314Exim version 4.31
3315-----------------
3316
3317 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
3318 Larry Rosenman.
3319
3320 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
3321 indeed breaks things for older releases.
3322
3323 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
3324 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
3325 try to track down a specific problem.
3326
3327 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
3328 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
3329 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
3330
3331 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
3332 warning.
3333
3334 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
3335 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
3336 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
3337 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
3338 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
3339 some earlier ones do not.
3340
3341 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
3342
3343 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
3344 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
3345 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3346 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
3347 address literals are enabled, of course).
3348
3349 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
3350
335110. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
3352 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
3353 by a command such as
3354
3355 exim -f "" ...
3356
3357 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
3358
335911. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
3360
336112. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
3362 remained set. It is now erased.
3363
336413. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
3365 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
3366
336714. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
3368 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
3369 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
3370 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
3371 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
3372 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
3373 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
3374 appropriate error code.
3375
337615. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
3377 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
3378 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
3379 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
3380 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
3381 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
3382
338316. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
3384 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
3385 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
3386
338717. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
3388 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
3389 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
3390 terminate the header.
3391
339218. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
3393 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
3394 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
3395
339619. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
3397 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
3398 (4.30/29). In particular:
3399
3400 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
3401 imposed.
3402
3403 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
3404 to write a maildirsize file.
3405
3406 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
3407 the transport, the new value overrides.
3408
3409 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
3410 count.
3411
341220. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
3413 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
3414 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
3415 space or a tab.
3416
341721. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
3418 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
3419 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
3420 the fallback hosts.
3421
342222. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
3423 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
3424 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
3425
342623. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
3427 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
3428 using a union.
3429
343024. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
3431 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
3432 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
3433
343425. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
3435
343626. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
3437
343827. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
3439
344028. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
3441 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
3442 become corrupted.
3443
344429. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
3445 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
3446 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
3447 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
3448 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
3449 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
3450 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
3451 too great.
3452
345330. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
3454 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
3455 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
3456 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
3457 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
3458 incorrectly.
3459
346031. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
3461 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
3462 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
3463 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
3464 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
3465 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
3466 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
3467 cached value only when the same options are set.
3468
346932. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
3470
347133. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
3472 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
3473 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
3474 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
3475 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
3476
347734: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
3478 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
3479 it is clearly obsolete.
3480
348135. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
3482 transport.
3483
348436. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
3485 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
3486 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
3487 times.
3488
348937. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
3490 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
3491 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
3492 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
3493 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
3494
349538. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
3496 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
3497 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
3498 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
3499
350039. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
3501
3502 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
3503
3504 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
3505 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
3506 2^31.
3507
350840. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
3509 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
3510 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
3511 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
3512 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
3513 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
3514 $localpart_data.
3515
351641. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
3517 with the -f command-line option.
3518
351942. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
3520 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
3521 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
3522 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
3523 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
3524 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3525
352643. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
3527 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
3528 line.
3529
353044. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
3531 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
3532 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
3533 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
3534 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
3535 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
3536 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
3537 buffer is too small.
3538
353945. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
3540 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
3541
354246. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
3543 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
3544 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
3545 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
3546 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
3547 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
3548 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
3549 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
3550 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
3551
355247. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
3553 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
3554 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
3555
355648. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
3557 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
3558 ACL").
3559
356049. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
3561 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
3562 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
3563 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
3564 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
3565
356650. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
3567 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
3568 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
3569 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
3570 is set.
3571
357251. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
3573
357452. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
3575
357653. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
3577 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
3578
357954. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
3580 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
3581 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
3582
358355. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
3584 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
3585 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
3586 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
3587 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
3588
358956. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
3590 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
3591 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
3592 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
3593 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
3594 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
3595 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
3596
359757. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
3598 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
3599 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
3600 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
3601 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
3602 the test of how many are available.
3603
360458. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
3605 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
3606 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
3607 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
3608 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
3609 new message is started.
3610
361159. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
3612 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
3613
361460. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
3615 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
3616
361761. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
3618 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
3619 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
3620 is no long logged.
3621
362262. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
3623 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
3624 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
3625 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
3626 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
3627 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
3628 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
3629
363063. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
3631 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
3632 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
3633 interpreted as octal.
3634
363564. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
3636 setting.
3637
363865. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
3639 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
3640 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
3641 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
3642 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
3643 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
3644
364566. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
3646 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
3647 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
3648 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
3649
3650 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
3651 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
3652 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
3653 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
3654
3655 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
3656 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
3657 is a bug fix.
3658
3659 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
3660 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
3661
366267. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3663
366468. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
3665 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
3666 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
3667 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
3668
366969. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
3670 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
3671 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
3672 supplied", which is not helpful.
3673
367470. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
3675 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
3676 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
3677
367871. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
3679 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
3680 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
3681 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
3682 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
3683 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
3684 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
3685 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
3686
368772. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
3688 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
3689 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
3690 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
3691 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
3692
369373. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
3694 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
3695 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
3696 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
3697 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
3698 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
3699
370074. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
3701 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
3702 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
3703
370475. Added write_rejectlog option.
3705
370676. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
3707 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
3708 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
3709 variables.
3710
371177. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
3712
371378. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
3714 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
3715 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
3716 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
3717 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
3718 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
3719 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
3720 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
3721
372279. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
3723 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
3724 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
3725 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
3726 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
3727
372880. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
3729 Haardt.
3730
373181. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
3732 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
3733 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
3734 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
3735 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
3736 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
3737 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
3738 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
3739 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
3740
3741
3742Exim version 4.30
3743-----------------
3744
3745 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
3746 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
3747 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
3748
3749 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
3750 fixed.
3751
3752 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
3753 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
3754 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
3755
3756 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
3757 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
3758 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
3759 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
3760 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
3761 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
3762
3763 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
3764 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
3765 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
3766 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
3767 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
3768 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
3769 the Exim test suite.
3770
3771 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
3772 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
3773 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
3774 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
3775
3776 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
3777 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
3778 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
3779 specify it in this variable.
3780
3781 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
3782 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
3783 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
3784 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
3785
3786 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
3787 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
3788 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
3789 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
3790
3791 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
3792 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
3793 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
3794 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
3795 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
3796
3797 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
3798
379910. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
3800 they are logged.
3801
380211. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
3803 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
3804 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
3805 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
3806 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
3807
380812. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
3809 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
3810
381113. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
3812 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
3813 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
3814 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
3815 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
3816
381714. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
3818 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
3819
382015. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
3821 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3822 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
3823
382416. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
3825 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
3826
382717. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
3828 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
3829
383018. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
3831 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
3832 to get rid of the compiler warning.
3833
383419. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
3835 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
3836
383720. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
3838 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
3839 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
3840 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
3841
384221. Added the -t option to exigrep.
3843
384422. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
3845 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
3846 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
3847 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
3848
384923. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
3850
385124. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
3852 line; previously there was no indication of these.
3853
385425. Added .include_if_exists.
3855
385626. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
3857 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
3858 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
3859 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
3860 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
3861 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
3862
386327. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
3864
386528. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
3866 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
3867 this.
3868
386929. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
3870
387130. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
3872 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
3873
3874 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
3875 550 Sender verify failed
3876
3877 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
3878 the final line of the response.
3879
388031. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
3881 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
3882 all other user lookups.
3883
388432. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
3885 delivery time.
3886
388733. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
3888 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
3889 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
3890 result into an int without checking.
3891
389234. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
3893 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
3894 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
3895
389635. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
3897 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
3898 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
3899 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
3900
390136. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
3902 correctly.
3903
390437. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
3905 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
3906
390738. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
3908 to the empty sender.
3909
391039. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
3911 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
3912 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
3913 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
3914 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
3915 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
3916 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
3917 panic log.
3918
391940. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
3920 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
3921 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
3922 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
3923 used.
3924
392541. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
3926 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
3927
392842. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
3929 timestamps.
3930
393143. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
3932 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
3933
393444. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
3935
393645. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
3937 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
3938 logs.
3939
394046. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
3941 as soon as it is encountered.
3942
394347. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
3944
394548. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
3946 rewritten to "<>".
3947
394849. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
3949 recognizes a tab character.
3950
395150. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
3952 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
3953 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
3954 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
3955
395651. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
3957
395852. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
3959 crash.
3960
396153. Installed eximstats 1.29.
3962
396354. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
3964
396555. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
3966 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
3967 2822.
3968
396956. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
3970 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
3971 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
3972 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
3973 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
3974
397557. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
3976 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
3977
397858. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
3979 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
3980 list (.included file names were always shown).
3981
398259. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
3983 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
3984 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
3985 root at that time.
3986
398760. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
3988 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
3989
399061. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
3991
399262. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
3993
399463. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
3995
399664. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
3997 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
3998 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
3999 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4000 failures to open the logs.
4001
400265. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4003 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4004 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4005 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4006 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4007 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4008 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4009
4010
4011Exim version 4.24
4012-----------------
4013
4014 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4015 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4016 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4017 change 4.23/1.
4018
4019 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4020 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4021 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4022
4023 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4024 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4025 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4026
4027 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4028 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4029 causing some misleading effects.
4030
4031 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4032 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4033 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4034
4035 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4036 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4037 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4038 queue-runner function directly.
4039
4040
4041Exim version 4.23
4042-----------------
4043
4044 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4045 HEADERS_CHARSET.
4046
4047 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4048 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4049 was always written to the default place.
4050
4051 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4052 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4053 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4054
4055 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
4056
4057 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
4058
4059 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
4060 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
4061 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
4062
4063 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
4064 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
4065 must start.
4066
4067 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
4068 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
4069 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
4070
4071 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
4072 command line option is disabled.
4073
4074 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
4075 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
4076
4077 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
4078
4079 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
4080
4081 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
4082 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
4083
408410. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
4085
408611. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
4087 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
4088 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
4089 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
4090 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
4091 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
4092
409312. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
4094 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
4095 timeout.
4096
409713. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
4098 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
4099
410014. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
4101 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
4102
410315. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
4104 received was valid base64.
4105
410616. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
4107 name of the variable that was being set.
4108
410917. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
4110
411118. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
4112 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
4113 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
4114 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
4115 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
4116 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
4117
411819. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
4119
412020. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
4121 nor realm was specified.
4122
412321. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
4124 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
4125 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
4126 errors are given to SMTP connections.
4127
412822. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
4129 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
4130 failing to send a response to QUIT.
4131
413223. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
4133 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
4134 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
4135
413624. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
4137 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
4138 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
4139 some systems use these upper case variants.
4140
414125. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
4142 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
4143 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
4144 socket" when it tried to send the third.
4145
414626. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
4147
414827. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
4149 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
4150
415128. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
4152 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
4153 expansion variable.
4154
415529. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
4156
415730. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
4158 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
4159 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
4160 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
4161
416231. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
4163 using it.
4164
416532. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
4166 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
4167 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
4168
416933. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
4170 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
4171
417234. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
4173 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
4174 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
4175 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
4176
417735. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
4178 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
4179 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
4180
418136. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
4182
418337. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
4184 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
4185 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
4186 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
4187 aborted.
4188
418938. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
4190 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
4191 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
4192
419339. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
4194
419540. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
4196 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
4197
419841. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
4199 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
4200
420142. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
4202 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
4203 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
4204 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
4205 when emails are that large.
4206
4207
4208
4209Exim version 4.22
4210-----------------
4211
4212 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
4213 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
4214
4215 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
4216 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
4217 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
4218
4219 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
4220 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
4221 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
4222
4223 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
4224 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
4225 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
4226 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
4227 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
4228
4229 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
4230 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
4231 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
4232 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
4233 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
4234 ever.
4235
4236 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
4237 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
4238 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
4239 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
4240 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
4241 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
4242 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
4243 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
4244 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
4245 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
4246 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
4247 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
4248 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
4249 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
4250
4251 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
4252 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
4253 parameterised it.
4254
4255 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
4256 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
4257 error should be diagnosed.
4258
4259 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
4260 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
4261 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
4262 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
4263 appeared instead of "NULL".
4264
426510. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
4266 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
4267 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
4268 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
4269 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
4270 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
4271 proceeds).
4272
4273 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
4274 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
4275 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
4276
4277
4278Exim version 4.21
4279-----------------
4280
4281 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
4282 or receiver verification errors.
4283
4284 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
4285 name.
4286
4287 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
4288 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
4289 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
4290 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
4291
4292 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
4293 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
4294 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
4295 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
4296 shouldn't happen again.
4297
4298 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
4299 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
4300 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
4301
4302 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
4303 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
4304
4305 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
4306
4307 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
4308 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
4309
4310 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
4311 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
4312 RFC.
4313
431410. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
4315 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
4316 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
4317
431811. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
4319 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
4320 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
4321 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
4322
432312. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
4324 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
4325 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
4326 to define what should happen).
4327
432813. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
4329 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
4330 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
4331
433214. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
4333
433415. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
4335
433616. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
4337 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
4338
433917. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
4340 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
4341 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
4342 structure in all cases.
4343
4344 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
4345 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
4346 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
4347 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
4348
434918. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
4350 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
4351 domain name.
4352
435319. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
4354 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
4355
435620. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
4357 MD5 (which is deprecated).
4358
435921. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
4360 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
4361 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
4362
436322. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
4364 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
4365 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
4366
436723. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
4368 the book and for uniformity.
4369
437024. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
4371
437225. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4373 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
4374 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
4375 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
4376 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
4377 non-existent command as the problem.
4378
437926. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
4380 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
4381 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
4382
438327. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
4384
438528. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
4386 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
4387 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
4388
438929. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
4390 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
4391 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
4392 timestamps using strftime().
4393
439430. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
4395 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
4396
439732. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
4398 transport-time rewrites.
4399
440033. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
4401 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
4402 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
4403 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
4404
440534. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
4406 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
4407
440835. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
4409 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
4410 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
4411 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
4412 comma and a space.
4413
441436. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
4415 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
4416 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
4417 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
4418 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
4419 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
4420 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
4421
442237. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
4423 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
4424 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
4425 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
4426 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
4427
442838. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
4429 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
4430 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
4431 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
4432 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
4433 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
4434 remaining text gets split now.
4435
443639. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
4437 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
4438 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
4439 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
4440
444140. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
4442 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
4443 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
4444 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
4445 $return_path.
4446
444741. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
4448 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
4449 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
4450 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
4451 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
4452 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
4453 passed through if needed.
4454
445542. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
4456 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
4457 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
4458 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
4459 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
4460 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
4461
446243. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
4463 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
4464 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
4465 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
4466 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
4467
446844. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
4469 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
4470 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
4471 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
4472 incorrect size information for certain domains.
4473
447445. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
4475 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
4476 noticed.
4477
447846. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
4479 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
4480 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
4481 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
4482 mayhem of various kinds.
4483
448447. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
4485 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4486 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
4487 the right test for positive values.
4488
448948. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
4490 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
4491 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
4492 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
4493 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
4494 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
4495 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
4496 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
4497 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
4498 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
4499 envelope.
4500
450149. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
4502 module.
4503
450450. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
4505 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
4506 forbidding it.
4507
450851. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
4509 the existing equality matching.
4510
451152. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
4512 dealing with inode numbers.
4513
451453. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
4515 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
4516 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
4517
451854. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
4519 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
4520 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
4521 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
4522 local_scan().
4523
452455. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
4525 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
4526 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
4527 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
4528 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
4529 relay addresses has also been removed.
4530
453156. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
4532
453357. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
4534 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
4535 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
4536
453758. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
4538 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
4539 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
4540 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
4541 processing applies to CR:
4542
4543 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
4544 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
4545
4546 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
4547 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
4548 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
4549 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
4550
455159. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
4552 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
4553 This is a VOB (very old bug).
4554
455560. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
4556 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
4557 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
4558 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
4559 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
4560 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
4561 arisen.
4562
456361. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
4564 program routers.
4565
456662. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
4567 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
4568 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
4569 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
4570 adds:
4571
4572 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4573
4574 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
4575
4576 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
4577
457863. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
4579 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
4580 not considered personal.
4581
458264. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
4583
458465. Added queue_only_override (default true).
4585
458666. Added the syslog_duplication option.
4587
458867. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
4589 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
4590 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
4591 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
4592 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
4593 header lines, and spool format errors.
4594
459568. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
4596 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
4597 for more flexibility.
4598
459969. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
4600 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
4601 consulting and updating the callout cache.
4602
460370. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
4604 Sabourenkov.
4605
460671. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
4607 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
4608 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
4609 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
4610 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
4611 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
4612 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
4613 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
4614 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
4615
461672. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
4617 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
4618 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
4619 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
4620 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
4621 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
4622 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
4623
462473. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
4625 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
4626 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
4627
462874. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
4629 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
4630 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
4631 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
4632 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
4633 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
4634 instead of killing the process with assert().
4635
463675. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
4637 than Unicode encoding.
4638
463976. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
4640 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
4641 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
4642 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
4643
464477. Added process_log_path.
4645
464678. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
4647 check_log_inodes was ignored.
4648
464979. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
4650 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
4651
465280. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
4653 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
4654 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
4655
465681. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
4657 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
4658 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
4659 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
4660 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
4661 were applied:
4662
4663 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
4664 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
4665 as invalid.
4666
466782. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
4668 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
4669 they will be used during message reception.
4670
4671
4672Exim version 4.20
4673-----------------
4674
4675The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
4676
4677****