Fix Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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8
9SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
10 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
11
12SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
13 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
14 there is data to show.
15 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
16
17SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
18 as the number of messages in eximstats.
19
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20TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
21 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
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23TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs with
24 consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
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26TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
27 submissions from trusted users.
28
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29TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
30 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
31
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32TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
33 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
34 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
35 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
36 there is now a framework to start from.
37
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38PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
39 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
40 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
41
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42PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
43
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44PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
45
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46PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
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51
52TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
53 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
54
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55PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
56 patch).
57
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58PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
59 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
60 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
61 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
62 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
63 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
64 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
65 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
66 451 error is used.
67
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68PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
69
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70PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
71 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
72 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
73
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74PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
75 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
76 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
77 odd errors.
78
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79PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
80 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
81
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82PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
83 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
84 option (which defaults to 0600).
85
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86PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
87
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88PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
89 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
90 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
91 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
92 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
93 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
94 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
95
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96PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
97
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99Exim version 4.61
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101
102PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
103 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
104 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
105 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
106 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
107 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
108 addresses as local.
109
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110PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
111 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
112
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113PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
114
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115PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
116 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
117 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
118 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
119 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
120 grumble.
121
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122PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
123 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
124
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125PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
126 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
127 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
128 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
129 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
130
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131PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
132 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
133 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
134 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
135
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136PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
137 be the same on different OS.
138
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139PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
140 testing.
141
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142JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
143 whether --show-vars was specified or not
144
145JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
146 in 4.61-PH/06
147
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148PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
149 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
150 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
151 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
152 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
153 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
154 bounce message.
155
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156PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
157 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
158 when Exim was called.
159
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160PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
161 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
162
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163PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
164 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
165 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
166 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
167
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168PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
169 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
170 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
171 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
172 changes:
173
174 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
175 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
176 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
177
178 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
179 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
180 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
181
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182PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
183 feature).
184
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185PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
186 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
187 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
188 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
189 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
190 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
191 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
192 values from the SRV records were lost.
193
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194PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
195 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
196 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
197
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198PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
199 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
200 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
201
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202PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
203 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
204 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
205 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
206 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
207 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
208 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
209 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
210 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 211 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
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213PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
214 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
215 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
216
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217PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
218 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
219
220PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
221 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
222 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
223 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
224 is given.
225
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226PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
227 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
228 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
229
230PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
231 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
232 PH/23 above applies.
233
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234PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
235 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
236 (for which there is an explicit test).
237
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238PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
239
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240PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
241 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
242 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
243 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
244 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 245
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246PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
247 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
248 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
249 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
250
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251PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
252 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
253 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
254
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255PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
256
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257PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
258
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259PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
260 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
261 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
262
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263PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
264 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
265 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
266 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
267 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
268
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269PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
270 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
271 the message gets confusing).
272
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273PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
274 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
275 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
276 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
277
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278PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
279 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
280 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
281 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
282 same order.
283
284PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
285 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
286 the different processes.
287
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288PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
289
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290PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
291
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292JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
293 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
294
295JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
296 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
297
298JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
299 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
300 messages matching specified criteria.
301
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302PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
303
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304PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
305 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
306
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307PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
308 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
309 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
310 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
311 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
312 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
313 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
314 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
315 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
316 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
317
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318PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
319 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
320 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
321
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322PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
323
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324PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
325 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
326 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
327 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
328 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
329 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
330 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
331 the variable.
332
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333PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
334 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
335
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336PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
337
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338PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
339
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340PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
341
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342PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
343 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
344 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
345 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
346 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
347 size of the count of files.
348
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349PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
350
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351PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
352 used in LMTP mode:
353
354 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
355 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
356 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
357 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
358
359 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
360 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
361 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
362
363PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
364 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
365 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
366 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
367 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
368
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369PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
370 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
371
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372PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
373 will now be deprecated.
374
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375PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
376
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377JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
378 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
379 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
380
381JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
382 with very large, slow to parse queues
383
384JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
385
386JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
387
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388PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
389 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
390 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
391 SMTP output lines.
392
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393PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
394 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
395 Sieve code now uses this.
396
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397PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
398 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
399
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400PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
401 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
402
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403PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
404
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405PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
406 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
407 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
408 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
409 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
410
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411PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
412 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
413 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
414 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
415
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416PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
417
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418PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
419
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420PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
421 is preferred over IPv4.
422
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423PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
424 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
425 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
426 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
427 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
428 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
429 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
430
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431PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
432 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
433 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
434
435PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
436
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437PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
438 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
439 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
440 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
441 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
442 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
443 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
444 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
445 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
446 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
447 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
448
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449PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
450 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
451 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
452
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454Exim version 4.60
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456
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457PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
458
459 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
460 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
461
462 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
463 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
464 statements are most likely to be submissions.
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466PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
467
468 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
469 not a single digit.
470
471 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
472 string.
473
474 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
475 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
476 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
477 silly things.
478
479 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
480 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
481
482 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
483 inside the third argument.
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485PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
486 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
487 "/bin:/usr/bin".
488
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489PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
490 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
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492PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
493 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
494
495 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
496
497 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
498 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
499 this:
500
501 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
502
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503PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
504 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
505 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
506 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
507 identical. For example:
508
509 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
510
511 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
512 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
513 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
514
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515PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
516 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
517 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
518 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
519
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520PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
521 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
522 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
523 message.
524
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525PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
526
527 o fixes some comments
528 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
529 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
530 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
531 and documents the missing references header update
532
533 and most important:
534
535 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
536 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
537 result)
538
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539PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
540 Electronic Mail") by including:
541
542 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
543
544 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
545 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
546 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
547 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
548 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
549
550 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
551
552 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
553
554 The auto-replied keyword:
555
556 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
557 message by an automatic process,
558
559 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
560
561 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
562 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
563
564 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
565 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
566 other messages.
567
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568PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
569 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 570
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571PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
572
eba0c039
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573PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
574 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
575 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
576
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577PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
578 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
579 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
580
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581PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
582 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
583 and treats the condition as false.
584
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585PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
586
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587PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
588 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
589 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
590 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
591 not changing the active code.
592
593 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
594 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
595
596 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
597 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
598
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599PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
600 (Bugzilla #53).
601
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602PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
603 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
604 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
605 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
606 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
607 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
608 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
609 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
610 the text comparison.
611
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612PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
613 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
614 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
615 The same fix has been applied.
616
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618Exim version 4.54
619-----------------
620
621PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
622 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
623 It now does.
624
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625PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
626 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
627
628PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
629
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630PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
631 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
632 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
633 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
634 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
635
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636TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
637 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
638 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
639 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
640 or /domain=).
641
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642PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
643 testing suite.
644
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647Exim version 4.53
648-----------------
649
650TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
651 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
652
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653PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
654
395ff96d
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655PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
656
5b68f6e4
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657PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
658 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
659 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
660
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661PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
662 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
663 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
664
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665PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
666 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
667 operating systems.
668
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669PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
670 ${stat: expansion item.
671
3af76a81
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672PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
673 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
674
2548ba04
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675PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
676 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
677 file for comments.
678
b6c6011d
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679PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
680
cf39cf57
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681PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
682 setting.
683
f1513293
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684PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
685 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
686
727549a4
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687TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
688
af46795e
PH
689PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
690 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
691 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
692 the end of the subprocess.
693
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694PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
695 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
696 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
697 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
698 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
699
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700JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
701
b582ab87
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702TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
703
41a13e0a
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704PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
705 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
706
f625cc5a
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707PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
708
709PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
710
21f7af35
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711PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
712 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
713 HP-UX compiler.
714
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715PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
716
2d280592
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717PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
718 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
719 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
720
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721PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
722 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
723
724PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
725 host errors such as "Connection refused".
726
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727PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
728 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
729
730 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
731 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
732
733 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
734 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
735 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
736 contributed by a Radius user.
737
738PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
739 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
740
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741TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
742 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
743
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744PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
745 available.
746
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747PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
748 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
749 received.
750
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751PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
752 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
753 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
754 header lines when this was not necessary.
755
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756PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
757
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758PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
759 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
760 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
761 exists".
762
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763PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
764 -bV or -d is used.
765
aa2b5c79
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766PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
767 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
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768 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
769 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 770
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771PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
772
1c59d63b
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773PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
774
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775TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
776
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777PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
778
779PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
780 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
781 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
782 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
783 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
784 settings.
785
786PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
787
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788PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
789 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
790 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
791 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
792 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
793 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
794 which is clearly wrong.
795
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796PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
797
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798PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
799 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
800 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
801 subsequently added.
802
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803PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
804 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
805
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806PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
807
c35e155c
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808PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
809 the "build-* directories that it finds.
810
95d1f782
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811PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
812 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
813
fd6de02e
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814PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
815 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
816
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817PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
818 recipients, not senders.
819
261cf466
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820TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
821 the ratelimit ACL was added.
822
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823PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
824
e08c430f
PH
825PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
826
bef5a11f
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827PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
828 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
829 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
830 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
831
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832TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
833
e5d5a95f
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834TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
835 clock is set back in time.
836
2e88a017
TF
837TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
838 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
839
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840TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
841 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
842
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843PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
844 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
845 (see PH/47 above).
846
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847TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
848 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
849 header rewrites.
850
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851PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
852 type ("H").
853
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854PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
855
66afa403
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856TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
857 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
858 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
859
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860TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
861 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
862 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
863 helo verification defer as a failure.
864
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865PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
866 actual error message.
867
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869Exim version 4.52
870-----------------
871
872TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
873
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874PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
875 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
876 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
877 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
878
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879TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
880
c1ac6996
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881PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
882 can still be requested.
883
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884PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
885 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
886 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
887 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
888
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889TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
890 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
891 circumstances, but probably never did.
892
893PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
894 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
895 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
896 in the header line.
897
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898TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
899
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900TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
901 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
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903TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
904
905TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
906
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907PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
908 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
909 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
910 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
911 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
912 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
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914PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
915 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
916 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
917 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
918 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
919 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
920
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921TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
922 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
923
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924PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
925 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
926
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927SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
928 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
929
930SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
931
932SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
933
934SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
935
936SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
937
938SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
939
940SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
941
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942TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
943
944TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
945 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
946 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
947
948TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
949 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
950 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
951 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
952
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953PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
954 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
955 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
956
957PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
958 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
959 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
960 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
961
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962PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
963 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
964 to be made).
965
966PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
967 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
968 should work with maildirs and everything.
969
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970TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
971 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
972
554d2369
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973TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
974 <jgh@wizmail.org>
975
1f922db1
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976PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
977 function for BDB 4.3.
978
ef213c3b
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979PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
980
8ac170f3
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981PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
982 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
983 involved.
984
b1c749bb
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985PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
986 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
987 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
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988 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
989 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
990 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 991
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992PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
993 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
994 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
995 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
996 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
997 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
998 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
999 falls back to the previous guessing code."
1000
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1001TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
1002 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
1003 details.
1004
5bd022fe
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1005PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
1006 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
1007
90e9ce59
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1008PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
1009 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
1010 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
1011 test. It is now used for both.
1012
5ea81592
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1013PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
1014 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
1015 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
1016 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
1017 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
1018 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
1019
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1020PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
1021 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
1022 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
1023 string_vformat().
1024
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1025PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
1026 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
1027 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 1028
9a26b6b2
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1029PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
1030 experimental DomainKeys support:
1031
1032 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
1033 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
1034 the control was given.
1035
1036 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
1037
4aee0225
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1038PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
1039
32d668a5
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1040PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
1041
8187c3f3
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1042PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
1043 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
1044 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
1045 db.h files).
1046
ff790e47 1047PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
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1048 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
1049 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
1050 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
1051 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
1052 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
1053 course.
ff790e47 1054
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1055PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
1056 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
1057 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
1058 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
1059 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
1060 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
1061
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1062PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
1063 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
1064 do -d+all out of habit.
1065
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1066PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
1067 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
1068 x86_64 Fedora Core.
1069
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1070PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
1071 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
1072 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
1073 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
1074 record types that Exim uses.
1075
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1076PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
1077 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
1078 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
1079 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
1080 non-existent file that was broken.
1081
b0d9fc80
TK
1082TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
1083 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
1084
1085TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
1086 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
1087 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
1088
1089TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
1090
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1091PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
1092 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
1093 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
1094 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
1095 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
1096 same time.
1097
a388bce4
SC
1098SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
1099 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
1100 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
1101 at a slight CPU cost.
1102
1103SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
1104 as requested by Marc Sherman.
1105
1106SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
1107 by Marc Sherman.
1108
0793e4ed
SC
1109SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
1110
c58b88df
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1111PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
1112 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
1113
e7ad8a65 1114
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1115Exim version 4.51
1116-----------------
1117
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1118TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
1119 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
1120
2f079f46 1121TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
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1122
1123TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
1124
1125PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
1126 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
1127
1128PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
1129 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
1130 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
1131 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
1132 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
1133 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
1134 file.
1135
1136PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
1137 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
1138 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
1139 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
1140 these two options.
1141
1142PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
1143 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
1144 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
1145 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
1146 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
1147 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
1148 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 1149 address.
1a46a8c5
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1150
1151PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
1152 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
1153
1154PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
1155 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
1156 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
1157 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
1158 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
1159 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
1160
1161PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
1162 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
1163 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
1164 SMTP commands that take arguments.
1165
1166PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
1167 Finch).
1168
1169PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
1170 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 1171
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PH
1172PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
1173 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
1174 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
1175 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
1176 message.
49c2d5ea 1177
bf759a8b
PH
1178PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
1179
83364d30
PH
1180PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
1181 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
1182
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1183PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
1184 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
1185 to what was transported.)
1186
7dbf77c9
PH
1187TF/01 Added $received_time.
1188
74e0617f
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1189PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
1190 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
1191 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
1192 spamd_address settings.
1193
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PH
1194PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
1195 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
1196 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
1197 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
1198 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
1199
8c841523
PH
1200PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1201
7766a4f0
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1202PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
1203 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
1204 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
1205 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
1206 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
1207
8b417f2c
PH
1208PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
1209 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
1210
901f42cb
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1211PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
1212 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
1213 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
1214 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
1215 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
1216 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
1217 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
1218 for failure.
1219
f9b9210e
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1220PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
1221 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
1222 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
1223 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
1224 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
1225 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
1226 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
1227 "input=".
1228
54cdb463
PH
1229PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
1230
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1231PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
1232 driver and ACL definitions.
1233
acb1b346
PH
1234PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
1235 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
1236
c5ddb310
PH
1237PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
1238 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
1239 understands it better than I do:
1240
1241 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
1242 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
1243
1244 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
1245 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
1246 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
1247 => three warnings about OTP not working
1248 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
1249
1250 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
1251 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
1252 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
1253 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
1254 for each call.)
1255 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
1256 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
1257
1258 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
1259 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
1260 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
1261
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1262PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
1263 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
1264 specified.
1265
bebaf0fc
PH
1266PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
1267 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
1268 "Linux".
1269
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PH
1270PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
1271 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
1272 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
1273
1274 warn !verify = sender
1275 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
1276
1277 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
1278 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
1279
7e8bec7a
PH
1280PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
1281
1282 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
1283 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
1284
1285 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
1286 nomenclature these days.)
1287
e4a89c47
PH
1288PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
1289 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
1290
5ca2a9a1
PH
1291PH/30 In these circumstances:
1292 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
1293 . First host does not offer TLS;
1294 . First host accepts first address;
1295 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
1296 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
1297 . Second host accepts second address.
1298 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
1299 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
1300 address.
7e8bec7a 1301
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PH
1302PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
1303 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
1304 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
1305 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
1306 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
1307
fed77020
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1308PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
1309 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
1310
7fe1560f
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1311PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
1312 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 1313
ebb6e6d5
PH
1314PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
1315 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
1316 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
1317
9c4e8f60
PH
1318PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
1319 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
1320 overlooked.
1321
1322PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
1323
d7174846
PH
1324PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
1325 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
1326 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
1327 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
1328 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
1329 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
1330 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
1331
1332 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
1333 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
1334 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
1335 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
1336 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
1337
1338 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
1339 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
1340 routed further.
1341
cfe75fc3
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1342PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
1343 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
1344 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
1345 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
1346 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
1347 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
1348
be22d70e
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1349PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
1350
0612b098
PH
1351PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
1352 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
1353 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
1354 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
1355 printable escape sequences.
1356
2e0c1448
PH
1357PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
1358 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
1359 body only.
1360
447d236c
PH
1361PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
1362 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
1363 are as follows:
1364
1365 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
1366 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
1367 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
1368 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
1369 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
1370
1371 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
1372 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
1373 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
1374
d20976dc
PH
1375PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
1376
f656d135
PH
1377PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
1378 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
1379 play with."
1380
2e2a30b4
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1381PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
1382 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
1383 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
1384 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
1385 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
1386 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
1387 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
1388 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
1389 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
1390 the log output.
1391
9176e9f0
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1392PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
1393 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
1394 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
1395 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
1396 "make".
1397
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1399A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
1400----------------------------------------
1401
1402Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
1403changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
1404needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
1405in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
1406that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
1407release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
1408from 4.43.
1409
1410I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
14114.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
1412those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
1413historical information.
1414
1415
f7b63901 1416Exim version 4.50
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1417-----------------
1418
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1419 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1420
139059f6 1421 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 1422 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 1423
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1424 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1425 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1426 place.
1427
35af9f61
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1428 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1429 filter fails to execute.
1430
b668c215
PH
1431 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1432 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1433 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1434 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1435 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1436
a494b1e1
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1437 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
1438
1439 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1440 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1441 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1442 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
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1444 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1445 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1446 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1447 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1448 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1449
69358f02
PH
1450 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
1451
5be20824
PH
145210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1453
eb2c0248
PH
145411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1455 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1456 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1457 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1458
2a3eea10
PH
145912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1460 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1461 sender verification.
1462
146313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
1464 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
1465
23c7ff99
PH
146614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
1467
4deaf07d
PH
146815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
1469 connection timeout.
1470
926e1192
PH
147116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1472 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1473
650edc6f
PH
147417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1475 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1476
2c7db3f5
PH
147718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
1478 information about exactly what failed.
1479
3d235903
PH
148019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
1481
7c7ad977
PH
148220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
1483 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
1484 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
1485
981756db
PH
148621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
1487 It is now set to "smtps".
1488
d4eb88df
PH
148922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1490 ignore_target_hosts.
1491
149223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1493 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1494 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1495 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1496 "[x.x.x.x]".
1497
7d468ab8
PH
149824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1499 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1500 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1501
150225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1503 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1504 wake it up if nothing else does.
1505
62c0818f
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150626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1507 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1508 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1509 end up negative.
1510
26034054
PH
151127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1512 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1513
af66f652
PH
151428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
1515
90af77f4
PH
151629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
1517 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
1518 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
1519 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
1520 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
1521 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
1522 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
1523 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
1524
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152530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
1526 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
1527 than one IP address.
1528
5cb8cbc6
PH
152931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
1530 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
1531 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
1532 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
1533
14702f5b
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153432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1535 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1536 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1537 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1538 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1539 1024 to 2048 bytes.
1540
063b1e99
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154133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
1542 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
1543 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
1544 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
1545
652e1b65
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154634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1547 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1548 respected.
1549
6f0c9a4f
PH
155035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1551 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1552 $sender_host_address.
1553
33397d19
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155436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
1555 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
1556 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
1557 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
1558 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
1559 very small.
1560
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156137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
1562
1563 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
1564 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
1565
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1566 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
1567 just the host names, not the priorities.
1568
1569 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
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1570 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
1571 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 1572
ea3bc19b 1573 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 1574 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 1575
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157638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
1577 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
1578 domain.
1579
2ac0e484
PH
158039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
1581
4e1fde53
PH
158240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
1583 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
1584
de365ded
PH
158541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1586 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1587 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1588
f05da2e8
PH
158942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
1590
d6453af2
PH
159143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
1592
f7b63901
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159344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
1594
159545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1596 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1597 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1598 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1599 because the tests only now provoked it.
1600
a444213a
PH
160146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1602 (this can affect the format of dates).
1603
0ec020ea
PH
160447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1605 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1606 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1607 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1608
b1206957
PH
160948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
1610
161149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1612 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1613 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1614 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1615
26dd5a95
PH
161650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1617 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1618 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1619
343b2385
PH
162051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1621 autoreply.
1622
1c5466b9
PH
162352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1624 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1625 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1626 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1627 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1628 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1629 is going on).
1630
55ee9ee3
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163153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
1632 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
1633 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
1634 the line.
1635
d38f8232
PH
163654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
1637 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
1638 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
1639
1640 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
1641 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
1642 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
1643 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
1644 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
1645 so I produce this patch..."
1646
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1647 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
1648 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
1649 is not defined.
1650
7102e136
PH
165155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1652 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
1653 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1654 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 1655 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 1656
3ca0ba97
PH
165756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
1658
c2bcbe20
PH
165957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
1660 long debug lines gets shown.
1661
18ce445d
PH
166258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
1663 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
1664
1f5b4c3d
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166559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
1666
1667 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
1668 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
1669 of $primary_hostname.
1670
b975ba52
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167160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1672 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1673 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1674 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
1675 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1676 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1677 by change 4.50/55 above.
1678
1679 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1680 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1681 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1682 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1683 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1684 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 1685 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
1686
168761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1688 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1689 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 1690 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 1691
17ffcae7
PH
169262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
1693 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
1694
d95f9fdb
PH
169563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1696 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1697 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1698 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1699 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1700
86b8287f
PH
170164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
1702 This has been fixed.
1703
60dc5e56
PH
170465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1705 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1706 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1707 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1708 the caching.)
1709
533244af
PH
171066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
1711
a5a28604
PH
171267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
1713 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
1714 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
1715 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
1716
7e634d24
PH
171768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
1718 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
1719
3e11c26b
PH
172069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
1721 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
1722 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
1723
6729cf78
PH
172470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
1725 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
1726 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
1727 message there.
1728
00f00ca5
PH
172971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
1730 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
1731 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
1732
c9bdd01c
PH
173372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
1734 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
1735 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
1736 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
1737
d43194df
PH
173873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
1739 during host lookups.
1740
fe5b5d0b
PH
174174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
1742 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
1743
1744 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
1745
76a2d7ba
PH
174675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
1747 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
1748 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
1749 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
1750 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
1751 background.
1752
175376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
1754 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
1755
04f7d5b9
PH
175677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
1757 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
1758 for the non-SMTP ACL.
1759
bc60667e
PH
176078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
1761
bb6e88ff
PH
176279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
1763 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
1764 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
1765 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
1766 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
1767 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
1768 process earlier.
1769
1e70f85b
PH
177080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
1771 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
1772 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
1773 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
1774 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
1775
177681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
1777 tables).
1778
4e01f9d6
PH
177982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
1780
1ee1cef2
PH
178183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
1782 "vacation" handling.
1783
6e2b4ccc
PH
178484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
1785 OS variants using glibc.
1786
8e669ac1
PH
178785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
1788
495ae4b0 1789
bbe902f0
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1790----------------------------------------------------
1791See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
1792----------------------------------------------------
1793
1794
1795Exim version 4.44
1796-----------------
1797
1798 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
1799 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
1800 transport
1801
1802 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1803 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1804 place.
1805
1806 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1807 filter fails to execute.
1808
1809 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1810 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1811 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1812 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1813 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1814
1815 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1816 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1817 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1818 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
1819
1820 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1821 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1822 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1823 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1824 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1825
1826 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1827
1828 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1829 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1830 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1831 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1832
1833 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1834 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1835 sender verification.
1836
183710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1838 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1839
184011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1841 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1842
184312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1844 ignore_target_hosts.
1845
184613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1847 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1848 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1849 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1850 "[x.x.x.x]".
1851
185214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1853 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1854 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1855
185615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1857 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1858 wake it up if nothing else does.
1859
186016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1861 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1862 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1863 end up negative.
1864
186517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1866 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1867
ea3a6f44 186818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
1869
187019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
1871 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
1872 empty pattern.
1873
187420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
1875 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
1876 one IP address.
1877
ea3a6f44
NM
187821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1879 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1880 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1881 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1882 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1883 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 1884
ea3a6f44
NM
188522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1886 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1887 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
1888
188923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1890 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1891 $sender_host_address.
1892
189324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
1894
ea3a6f44
NM
189525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1896 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1897 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
1898
189926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 1900 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 1901
ea3a6f44
NM
190227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1903 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 1904
ea3a6f44
NM
190528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1906 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1907 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1908 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
1909
191029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
1911 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
1912 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
1913
ea3a6f44
NM
191430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1915 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1916 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1917 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 1918
ea3a6f44
NM
191931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1920 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1921 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 1922
ea3a6f44
NM
192331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1924 autoreply.
bbe902f0 1925
ea3a6f44
NM
192632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1927 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1928 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1929 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1930 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1931 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1932 is going on).
bbe902f0 1933
ea3a6f44
NM
193433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1935 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1936 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1937 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
1938 CAN-2005-0021
1939
ea3a6f44
NM
194034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1941 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1942 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1943 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1944 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1945 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1946 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
1947
1948 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1949 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1950 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1951 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1952 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1953 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
1954 CAN-2005-0021
1955
ea3a6f44
NM
195635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1957 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1958 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
1959 CAN-2005-0022
1960
ea3a6f44
NM
196136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1962 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1963 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1964 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1965 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 1966
ea3a6f44
NM
196737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1968 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1969 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1970 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1971 the caching.)
bbe902f0 1972
ea3a6f44
NM
197338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1974 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1975 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1976 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1977 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
1978
1979
495ae4b0
PH
1980Exim version 4.43
1981-----------------
1982
1983 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
1984 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
1985 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
1986 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
1987 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
1988 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
1989 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
1990
1991 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
1992 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
1993 the delivery.
1994
1995 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
1996
1997 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
1998
1999 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
2000 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
2001 to local_scan().
2002
2003 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
2004 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
2005 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
2006 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
2007 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
2008
2009 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
2010 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
2011
2012 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
2013
2014 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
2015
201610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
2017 header_sender only.
2018
201911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
2020 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
2021
202212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
2023 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
2024 affecting debugging statements).
2025
202613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
2027
202814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
2029 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
2030 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
2031 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
2032 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
2033 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
2034 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
2035 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
2036 after the received time, and all would be well.
2037
203815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
2039 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
2040 condition in an expansion string.
2041
204216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
2043
204417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
2045 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
2046 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
2047 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
2048 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
2049 job under whatever limits there are.
2050
205118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
2052
205319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
2054 space).
2055
205620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
2057 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
2058 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
2059 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
2060 return path is set.
2061
206221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
2063 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
2064 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
2065 binary data in such strings.
2066
206722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
2068
206923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
2070 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
2071 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
2072 failure, which is pointless.
2073
207424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
2075
207625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
2077
207826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
2079 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
2080 Sender: header lines.
2081
208227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
2083 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
2084 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
2085
208628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
2087 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
2088 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
2089 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
2090 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
2091 happens.
2092
209329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
2094 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
2095 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
2096 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
2097 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
2098
209930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
2100 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
2101 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
2102 1024.
2103
210431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
2105 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
2106
210732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
2108 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
2109
211033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
2111
211232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
2113
211433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
2115
211634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
2117 syntax error.
2118
211935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
2120
212136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
2122
212337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
2124 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
2125 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
2126 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
2127
212838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
2129 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
2130
2131
2132Exim version 4.42
2133-----------------
2134
2135 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
2136 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
2137 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
2138 it was not quoted.
2139 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
2140 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
2141 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
2142 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
2143 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
2144 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
2145
2146 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
2147 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
2148 verification failure".
2149
2150 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
2151 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
2152 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
2153 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
2154
2155 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
2156 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
2157 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
2158 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
2159 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
2160 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
2161 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
2162 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
2163 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
2164 treated as a timeout.
2165
2166 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
2167 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
2168 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
2169 not set for Exim filters).
2170
2171 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
2172 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
2173 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
2174
2175 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
2176
2177 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
2178 try to make them clearer.
2179
2180 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
2181 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
2182
2183 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
2184
2185 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
2186
218710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
2188 only the Cygwin environment.
2189
219011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
2191 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
2192 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
2193 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
2194 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
2195
219612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
2197 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
2198 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
2199 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
2200 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
2201 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
2202 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
2203
220413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
2205 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
2206
220714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
2208
2209 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
2210 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
2211 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
2212
2213 To: susanne@some.where
2214
2215 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
2216 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
2217 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
2218 of addresses in From: header lines).
2219
2220 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
2221 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
2222 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
2223
2224 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
2225 treated as non-personal.
2226
2227 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
2228 because it now seems ill-conceived.
2229
223015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
2231
223216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
2233
223417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
2235 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
2236 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
2237
223818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
2239 ACL and the local_scan() function.
2240
224119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
2242 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
2243 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
2244 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
2245 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
2246 (I found it when inspecting the code).
2247
224820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
2249 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
2250 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
2251 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
2252 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
2253 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
2254 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
2255 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
2256
2257 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
2258
225921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
2260 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
2261
226222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
2263 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
2264 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
2265
226623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
2267 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
2268
226924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
2270 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
2271 rather than long int.
2272
227325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2274
227526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
2276
2277
2278Exim version 4.41
2279-----------------
2280
2281 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
2282 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
2283 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
2284 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
2285 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
2286 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
2287
2288
2289Exim version 4.40
2290-----------------
2291
2292 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
2293 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
2294
2295 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
2296 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
2297 socklen_t is defined.
2298
2299 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
2300 always exist.
2301
2302 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
2303 configured.
2304
2305 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
2306 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
2307 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
2308 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
2309 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
2310
2311 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
2312 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
2313 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
2314 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
2315
2316 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
2317 of flapping under certain conditions.
2318
2319 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
2320 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
2321 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
2322
2323 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2324
232510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
2326
232711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
2328 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
2329 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
2330 the duration of the SMTP connection.
2331
233212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
2333 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
2334 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
2335 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
2336 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
2337 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
2338 preserved with the message after it was received.
2339
234013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
2341 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
2342 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
2343 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
2344 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
2345 test suite worked just fine.
2346
234714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
2348 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
2349 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
2350
235115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
2352 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
2353 string.
2354
235516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
2356 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
2357 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
2358 does not fully solve it.
2359
236017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
2361 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
2362 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
2363 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
2364 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
2365
236618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
2367 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
2368 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
2369
237019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
2371 string, for example:
2372
2373 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
2374
2375 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
2376 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
2377 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
2378 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
2379 the routers could not see them.
2380
238120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
2382 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
2383
238421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
2385 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
2386 output).
2387
238822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
2389 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
2390 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
2391 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
2392 that needed quoting.
2393
239423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
2395 was not being matched caselessly.
2396
239724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
2398 backslashes.
2399
240025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
2401 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
2402 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
2403 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
2404 when use_sender is false.
2405
240626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
2407
240827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
2409
241028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
2411
241229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
2413 the configuration file.
2414
241530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
2416 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
2417
241831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
2419
242032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
2421 bytes in the message body.
2422
242333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
2424 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
2425 delivery.
2426
242734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
2428
242935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
2430
243136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
2432 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
2433 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
2434 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
2435 another IP address.
2436
2437
2438Exim version 4.34
2439-----------------
2440
2441 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
2442 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
2443
2444 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
2445 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
2446 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
2447 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
2448 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
2449
2450 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
2451 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
2452
2453 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
2454 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
2455 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
2456
2457 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
2458 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
2459 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
2460
2461 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
2462 for routers.
2463
2464 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
2465 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
2466 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
2467 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
2468 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
2469 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
2470 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
2471
2472
2473Exim version 4.33
2474-----------------
2475
2476 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
2477 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
2478 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
2479 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
2480 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
2481 default (and expected) setting.
2482
2483 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
2484 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
2485 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
2486 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
2487
2488 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
2489 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
2490
2491 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
2492 in domain lists.
2493
2494 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
2495 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
2496 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
2497 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
2498 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
2499 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
2500
2501 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
2502 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
2503 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
2504
2505 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
2506 part (NOT match_host).
2507
2508 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
2509
2510 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
2511 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
2512 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
2513 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
2514 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
2515 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
2516 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
2517 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
2518 the same named file.
2519
252010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
2521 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
2522 when Exim is built.
2523
252411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
2525 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
2526 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
2527 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
2528 a host name.
2529
253012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
2531 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
2532 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
2533
253413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
2535
253614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
2537
253815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
2539
254016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
2541 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
2542
254317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
2544 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
2545 before starting the TLS session.
2546
254718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
2548
254919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
2550 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
2551
255220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
2553 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
2554 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
2555 colon in the middle).
2556
2557
2558Exim version 4.32
2559-----------------
2560
2561 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
2562 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
2563 multiple configurations are in use.
2564
2565 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
2566 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
2567 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
2568 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
2569 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
2570 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
2571
2572 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
2573 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
2574
2575 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
2576 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
2577 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
2578
2579 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
2580 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
2581 occurs.
2582
2583 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
2584 that used bh_ and bheader_.
2585
2586 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
2587
2588 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
2589 allowing one more file than it should have been.
2590
2591 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
2592
2593 -prval:sval
2594
2595 is equivalent to
2596
2597 -oMr rval -oMs sval
2598
2599 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
2600 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
2601 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
2602 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
2603 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
2604
260510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
2606 Exim's behaviour:
2607
2608 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
2609 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
2610 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
2611 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
2612 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
2613 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
2614
2615 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
2616 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
2617 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
2618 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
2619 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
2620 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
2621 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
2622 string.
2623
2624 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
2625 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
2626 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
2627 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
2628 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
2629
263011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
2631
263212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
2633 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
2634 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
2635
263613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
2637
263814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
2639 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
2640 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
2641 information.
2642
264315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
2644 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
2645
264616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
2647 Three changes have been made:
2648
2649 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
2650 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
2651 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
2652 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
2653 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
2654
2655 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
2656 been restored.
2657
2658 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
2659 the modified behaviour.
2660
2661
2662Exim version 4.31
2663-----------------
2664
2665 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
2666 Larry Rosenman.
2667
2668 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
2669 indeed breaks things for older releases.
2670
2671 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
2672 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
2673 try to track down a specific problem.
2674
2675 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
2676 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
2677 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
2678
2679 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
2680 warning.
2681
2682 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
2683 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
2684 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
2685 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
2686 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
2687 some earlier ones do not.
2688
2689 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
2690
2691 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
2692 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
2693 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2694 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
2695 address literals are enabled, of course).
2696
2697 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
2698
269910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
2700 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
2701 by a command such as
2702
2703 exim -f "" ...
2704
2705 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
2706
270711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
2708
270912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
2710 remained set. It is now erased.
2711
271213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
2713 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
2714
271514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
2716 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
2717 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
2718 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
2719 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
2720 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
2721 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
2722 appropriate error code.
2723
272415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
2725 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
2726 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
2727 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
2728 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
2729 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
2730
273116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
2732 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
2733 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
2734
273517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
2736 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
2737 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
2738 terminate the header.
2739
274018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
2741 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
2742 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
2743
274419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
2745 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
2746 (4.30/29). In particular:
2747
2748 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
2749 imposed.
2750
2751 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
2752 to write a maildirsize file.
2753
2754 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
2755 the transport, the new value overrides.
2756
2757 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
2758 count.
2759
276020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
2761 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
2762 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
2763 space or a tab.
2764
276521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
2766 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
2767 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
2768 the fallback hosts.
2769
277022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
2771 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
2772 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
2773
277423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
2775 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
2776 using a union.
2777
277824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
2779 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
2780 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
2781
278225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
2783
278426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
2785
278627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
2787
278828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
2789 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
2790 become corrupted.
2791
279229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
2793 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
2794 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
2795 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
2796 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
2797 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
2798 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
2799 too great.
2800
280130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
2802 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
2803 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
2804 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
2805 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
2806 incorrectly.
2807
280831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
2809 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
2810 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
2811 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
2812 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
2813 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
2814 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
2815 cached value only when the same options are set.
2816
281732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
2818
281933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
2820 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
2821 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
2822 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
2823 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
2824
282534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
2826 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
2827 it is clearly obsolete.
2828
282935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
2830 transport.
2831
283236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
2833 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
2834 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
2835 times.
2836
283737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
2838 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
2839 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
2840 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
2841 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
2842
284338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
2844 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
2845 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
2846 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
2847
284839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
2849
2850 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
2851
2852 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
2853 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
2854 2^31.
2855
285640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
2857 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
2858 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
2859 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
2860 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
2861 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
2862 $localpart_data.
2863
286441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
2865 with the -f command-line option.
2866
286742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
2868 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
2869 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
2870 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
2871 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
2872 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2873
287443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
2875 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
2876 line.
2877
287844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
2879 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
2880 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
2881 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
2882 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
2883 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
2884 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
2885 buffer is too small.
2886
288745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
2888 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
2889
289046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
2891 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
2892 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
2893 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
2894 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
2895 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
2896 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
2897 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
2898 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
2899
290047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
2901 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
2902 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
2903
290448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
2905 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
2906 ACL").
2907
290849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
2909 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
2910 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
2911 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
2912 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
2913
291450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
2915 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
2916 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
2917 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
2918 is set.
2919
292051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
2921
292252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
2923
292453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
2925 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
2926
292754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
2928 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
2929 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
2930
293155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
2932 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
2933 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
2934 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
2935 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
2936
293756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
2938 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
2939 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
2940 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
2941 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
2942 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
2943 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
2944
294557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
2946 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
2947 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
2948 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
2949 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
2950 the test of how many are available.
2951
295258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
2953 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
2954 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
2955 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
2956 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
2957 new message is started.
2958
295959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
2960 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
2961
296260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
2963 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
2964
296561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
2966 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
2967 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
2968 is no long logged.
2969
297062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
2971 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
2972 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
2973 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
2974 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
2975 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
2976 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
2977
297863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
2979 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
2980 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
2981 interpreted as octal.
2982
298364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
2984 setting.
2985
298665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
2987 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
2988 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
2989 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
2990 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
2991 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
2992
299366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
2994 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
2995 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
2996 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
2997
2998 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
2999 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
3000 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
3001 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
3002
3003 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
3004 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
3005 is a bug fix.
3006
3007 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
3008 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
3009
301067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3011
301268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
3013 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
3014 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
3015 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
3016
301769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
3018 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
3019 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
3020 supplied", which is not helpful.
3021
302270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
3023 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
3024 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
3025
302671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
3027 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
3028 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
3029 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
3030 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
3031 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
3032 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
3033 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
3034
303572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
3036 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
3037 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
3038 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
3039 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
3040
304173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
3042 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
3043 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
3044 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
3045 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
3046 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
3047
304874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
3049 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
3050 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
3051
305275. Added write_rejectlog option.
3053
305476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
3055 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
3056 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
3057 variables.
3058
305977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
3060
306178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
3062 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
3063 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
3064 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
3065 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
3066 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
3067 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
3068 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
3069
307079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
3071 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
3072 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
3073 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
3074 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
3075
307680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
3077 Haardt.
3078
307981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
3080 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
3081 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
3082 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
3083 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
3084 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
3085 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
3086 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
3087 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
3088
3089
3090Exim version 4.30
3091-----------------
3092
3093 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
3094 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
3095 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
3096
3097 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
3098 fixed.
3099
3100 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
3101 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
3102 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
3103
3104 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
3105 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
3106 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
3107 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
3108 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
3109 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
3110
3111 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
3112 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
3113 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
3114 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
3115 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
3116 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
3117 the Exim test suite.
3118
3119 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
3120 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
3121 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
3122 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
3123
3124 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
3125 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
3126 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
3127 specify it in this variable.
3128
3129 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
3130 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
3131 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
3132 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
3133
3134 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
3135 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
3136 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
3137 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
3138
3139 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
3140 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
3141 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
3142 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
3143 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
3144
3145 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
3146
314710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
3148 they are logged.
3149
315011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
3151 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
3152 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
3153 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
3154 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
3155
315612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
3157 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
3158
315913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
3160 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
3161 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
3162 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
3163 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
3164
316514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
3166 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
3167
316815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
3169 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3170 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
3171
317216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
3173 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
3174
317517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
3176 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
3177
317818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
3179 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
3180 to get rid of the compiler warning.
3181
318219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
3183 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
3184
318520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
3186 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
3187 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
3188 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
3189
319021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
3191
319222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
3193 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
3194 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
3195 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
3196
319723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
3198
319924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
3200 line; previously there was no indication of these.
3201
320225. Added .include_if_exists.
3203
320426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
3205 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
3206 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
3207 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
3208 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
3209 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
3210
321127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
3212
321328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
3214 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
3215 this.
3216
321729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
3218
321930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
3220 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
3221
3222 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
3223 550 Sender verify failed
3224
3225 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
3226 the final line of the response.
3227
322831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
3229 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
3230 all other user lookups.
3231
323232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
3233 delivery time.
3234
323533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
3236 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
3237 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
3238 result into an int without checking.
3239
324034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
3241 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
3242 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
3243
324435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
3245 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
3246 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
3247 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
3248
324936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
3250 correctly.
3251
325237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
3253 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
3254
325538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
3256 to the empty sender.
3257
325839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
3259 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
3260 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
3261 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
3262 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
3263 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
3264 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
3265 panic log.
3266
326740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
3268 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
3269 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
3270 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
3271 used.
3272
327341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
3274 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
3275
327642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
3277 timestamps.
3278
327943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
3280 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
3281
328244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
3283
328445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
3285 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
3286 logs.
3287
328846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
3289 as soon as it is encountered.
3290
329147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
3292
329348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
3294 rewritten to "<>".
3295
329649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
3297 recognizes a tab character.
3298
329950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
3300 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
3301 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
3302 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
3303
330451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
3305
330652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
3307 crash.
3308
330953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
3310
331154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
3312
331355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
3314 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
3315 2822.
3316
331756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
3318 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
3319 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
3320 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
3321 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
3322
332357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
3324 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
3325
332658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
3327 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
3328 list (.included file names were always shown).
3329
333059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
3331 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
3332 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
3333 root at that time.
3334
333560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
3336 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
3337
333861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
3339
334062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
3341
334263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
3343
334464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
3345 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
3346 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
3347 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
3348 failures to open the logs.
3349
335065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
3351 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
3352 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
3353 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
3354 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
3355 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
3356 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
3357
3358
3359Exim version 4.24
3360-----------------
3361
3362 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
3363 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
3364 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
3365 change 4.23/1.
3366
3367 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
3368 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
3369 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
3370
3371 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
3372 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
3373 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
3374
3375 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
3376 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
3377 causing some misleading effects.
3378
3379 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
3380 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
3381 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
3382
3383 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
3384 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
3385 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
3386 queue-runner function directly.
3387
3388
3389Exim version 4.23
3390-----------------
3391
3392 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
3393 HEADERS_CHARSET.
3394
3395 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
3396 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
3397 was always written to the default place.
3398
3399 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
3400 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
3401 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
3402
3403 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
3404
3405 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
3406
3407 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
3408 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
3409 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
3410
3411 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
3412 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
3413 must start.
3414
3415 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
3416 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
3417 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
3418
3419 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
3420 command line option is disabled.
3421
3422 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
3423 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
3424
3425 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
3426
3427 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
3428
3429 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
3430 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
3431
343210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
3433
343411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
3435 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
3436 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
3437 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
3438 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
3439 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
3440
344112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
3442 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
3443 timeout.
3444
344513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
3446 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
3447
344814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
3449 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
3450
345115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
3452 received was valid base64.
3453
345416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
3455 name of the variable that was being set.
3456
345717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
3458
345918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
3460 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
3461 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
3462 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
3463 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
3464 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
3465
346619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
3467
346820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
3469 nor realm was specified.
3470
347121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
3472 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
3473 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
3474 errors are given to SMTP connections.
3475
347622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
3477 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
3478 failing to send a response to QUIT.
3479
348023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
3481 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
3482 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
3483
348424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
3485 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
3486 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
3487 some systems use these upper case variants.
3488
348925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
3490 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
3491 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
3492 socket" when it tried to send the third.
3493
349426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
3495
349627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
3497 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
3498
349928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
3500 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
3501 expansion variable.
3502
350329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
3504
350530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
3506 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
3507 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
3508 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
3509
351031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
3511 using it.
3512
351332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
3514 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
3515 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
3516
351733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
3518 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
3519
352034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
3521 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
3522 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
3523 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
3524
352535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
3526 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
3527 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
3528
352936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
3530
353137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
3532 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
3533 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
3534 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
3535 aborted.
3536
353738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
3538 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
3539 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
3540
354139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
3542
354340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
3544 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
3545
354641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
3547 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
3548
354942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
3550 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
3551 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
3552 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
3553 when emails are that large.
3554
3555
3556
3557Exim version 4.22
3558-----------------
3559
3560 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
3561 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
3562
3563 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
3564 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
3565 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
3566
3567 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
3568 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
3569 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
3570
3571 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
3572 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
3573 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
3574 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
3575 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
3576
3577 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
3578 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
3579 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
3580 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
3581 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
3582 ever.
3583
3584 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
3585 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
3586 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
3587 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
3588 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
3589 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
3590 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
3591 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
3592 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
3593 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
3594 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
3595 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
3596 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
3597 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
3598
3599 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
3600 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
3601 parameterised it.
3602
3603 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
3604 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
3605 error should be diagnosed.
3606
3607 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
3608 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
3609 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
3610 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
3611 appeared instead of "NULL".
3612
361310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
3614 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
3615 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
3616 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
3617 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
3618 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
3619 proceeds).
3620
3621 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
3622 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
3623 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
3624
3625
3626Exim version 4.21
3627-----------------
3628
3629 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
3630 or receiver verification errors.
3631
3632 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
3633 name.
3634
3635 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
3636 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
3637 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
3638 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
3639
3640 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
3641 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
3642 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
3643 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
3644 shouldn't happen again.
3645
3646 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
3647 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
3648 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
3649
3650 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
3651 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
3652
3653 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
3654
3655 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
3656 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
3657
3658 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
3659 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
3660 RFC.
3661
366210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
3663 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
3664 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
3665
366611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
3667 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
3668 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
3669 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
3670
367112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
3672 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
3673 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
3674 to define what should happen).
3675
367613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
3677 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
3678 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
3679
368014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
3681
368215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
3683
368416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
3685 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
3686
368717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
3688 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
3689 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
3690 structure in all cases.
3691
3692 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
3693 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
3694 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
3695 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
3696
369718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
3698 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
3699 domain name.
3700
370119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
3702 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
3703
370420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
3705 MD5 (which is deprecated).
3706
370721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
3708 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
3709 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
3710
371122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
3712 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
3713 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
3714
371523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
3716 the book and for uniformity.
3717
371824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
3719
372025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
3721 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
3722 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
3723 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
3724 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
3725 non-existent command as the problem.
3726
372726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
3728 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
3729 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
3730
373127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
3732
373328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
3734 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
3735 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
3736
373729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
3738 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
3739 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
3740 timestamps using strftime().
3741
374230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
3743 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
3744
374532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
3746 transport-time rewrites.
3747
374833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
3749 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
3750 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
3751 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
3752
375334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
3754 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
3755
375635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
3757 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
3758 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
3759 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
3760 comma and a space.
3761
376236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
3763 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
3764 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
3765 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
3766 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
3767 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
3768 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
3769
377037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
3771 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
3772 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
3773 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
3774 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
3775
377638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
3777 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
3778 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
3779 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
3780 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
3781 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
3782 remaining text gets split now.
3783
378439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
3785 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
3786 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
3787 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
3788
378940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
3790 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
3791 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
3792 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
3793 $return_path.
3794
379541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
3796 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
3797 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
3798 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
3799 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
3800 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
3801 passed through if needed.
3802
380342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
3804 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
3805 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
3806 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
3807 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
3808 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
3809
381043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
3811 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
3812 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
3813 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
3814 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
3815
381644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
3817 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
3818 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
3819 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
3820 incorrect size information for certain domains.
3821
382245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
3823 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
3824 noticed.
3825
382646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
3827 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
3828 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
3829 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
3830 mayhem of various kinds.
3831
383247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
3833 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
3834 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
3835 the right test for positive values.
3836
383748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
3838 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
3839 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
3840 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
3841 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
3842 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
3843 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
3844 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
3845 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
3846 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
3847 envelope.
3848
384949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
3850 module.
3851
385250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
3853 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
3854 forbidding it.
3855
385651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
3857 the existing equality matching.
3858
385952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
3860 dealing with inode numbers.
3861
386253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
3863 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
3864 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
3865
386654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
3867 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
3868 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
3869 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
3870 local_scan().
3871
387255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
3873 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
3874 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
3875 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
3876 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
3877 relay addresses has also been removed.
3878
387956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
3880
388157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
3882 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
3883 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
3884
388558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
3886 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
3887 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
3888 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
3889 processing applies to CR:
3890
3891 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
3892 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
3893
3894 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
3895 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
3896 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
3897 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
3898
389959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
3900 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
3901 This is a VOB (very old bug).
3902
390360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
3904 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
3905 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
3906 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
3907 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
3908 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
3909 arisen.
3910
391161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
3912 program routers.
3913
391462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
3915 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
3916 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
3917 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
3918 adds:
3919
3920 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3921
3922 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
3923
3924 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
3925
392663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
3927 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
3928 not considered personal.
3929
393064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
3931
393265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
3933
393466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
3935
393667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
3937 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
3938 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
3939 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
3940 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
3941 header lines, and spool format errors.
3942
394368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
3944 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
3945 for more flexibility.
3946
394769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
3948 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
3949 consulting and updating the callout cache.
3950
395170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
3952 Sabourenkov.
3953
395471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
3955 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
3956 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
3957 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
3958 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
3959 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
3960 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
3961 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
3962 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
3963
396472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
3965 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
3966 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
3967 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
3968 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
3969 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
3970 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
3971
397273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
3973 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
3974 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
3975
397674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
3977 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
3978 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
3979 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
3980 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
3981 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
3982 instead of killing the process with assert().
3983
398475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
3985 than Unicode encoding.
3986
398776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
3988 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
3989 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
3990 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
3991
399277. Added process_log_path.
3993
399478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
3995 check_log_inodes was ignored.
3996
399779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
3998 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
3999
400080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
4001 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
4002 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
4003
400481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
4005 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
4006 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
4007 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
4008 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
4009 were applied:
4010
4011 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
4012 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
4013 as invalid.
4014
401582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
4016 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
4017 they will be used during message reception.
4018
4019
4020Exim version 4.20
4021-----------------
4022
4023The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
4024
4025****