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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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10
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11JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
13
14JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
16
17JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
18 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
19 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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21JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
22 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
23 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
24
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25JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
26 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
27 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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28 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
29 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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30 messed with.
31
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32PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
33 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
34
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35JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
36 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
37 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
38 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
39 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
40 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
41 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
42
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43JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
44 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
45
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46JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
47 legitimate.
48
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49JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
50 Previously this would segfault.
51
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52JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
53 segfault.
54
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55JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
56 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
57 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
58 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
59 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
60 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
61
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62JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
63
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64JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
65 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
66 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
67 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
68
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69JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
70
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71JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
72 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
73 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
74 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
75
5054c4fd 76JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
afdb5e9c 77JH/16 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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459fca58 82
c39c8870 83GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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84 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
85 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
86 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
87 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
88 be defined in redis_servers.
c39c8870 89
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90GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
91 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
92
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93JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
94 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
95 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
96 extant use locations.
97
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98JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
99 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
100
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101JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
102 Previously only the last row was returned.
103
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104JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
105 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
106 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
107 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
108 input.
109
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110JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
111 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
112 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
113 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
114 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
115 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
116 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
117 Main pool for expansions.
118 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
119 active in the testsuite.
120 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
121
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122JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
123 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
124 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
125 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
126 round-robin DNS.
127
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128JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
129 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
130 failure response.
131
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132JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
133 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
134 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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135
136JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
137 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
138 ClamAV interface method is removed.
c11d665d 139
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140JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
141 rows affected is given instead).
142
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143JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
144 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
145
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146JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
147 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
148 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
149 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
150 for all multi-message initiating connections.
151
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152JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
153 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
154 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
155
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156JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
157 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
158 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
159 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
160 separate.
161
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162JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
163 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
164 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
165 fake-reject.
166
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167HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
168
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169JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
170 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
171
aab9a843 172PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 173 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 174 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 175
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176JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
177 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
178 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
179 and send a quit.
180
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181JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
182 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
183
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184JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
185 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
186 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
187
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188JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
189 for the build is renamed.
190
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191JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
192 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
193 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
194
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195JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
196 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
197 result replacing the original.
198
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199JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
200 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
201 and the resources needed to be freed.
202
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203JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
204
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205JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
206 was not propagated.
207
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208JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
209 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
210 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
211 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
212
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213JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
214 length value. Previously this would segfault.
215
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216HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
217 newer versions of the scanner.
218
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219JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
220 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
221 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
222 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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223 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
224 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
225 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
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227JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
228 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
229 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
230 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
231 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
232 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
233 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
234 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
235 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
236 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
237
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238JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
239 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
240
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241JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
242
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243HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
244 allows proper process termination in container environments.
245
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246JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
247 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
248
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249JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
250 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
251 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
252
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253JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
254 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
255 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 256 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
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258JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
259 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
260 would be spooled.
261
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262PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
263 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
264
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265HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
266 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
267 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
268 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
269 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
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271JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
272 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
273 lines.
274
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275JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
276 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
277
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278PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
279 suffix list.
280
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281JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
282 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
283 "bare" representation.
284
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285JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
286 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
287 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
288 corrupted the output.
289
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293
294JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
295 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
296 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
297 pairs of long lines into single ones.
298
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299PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
300 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
301
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302JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
303 This permits better logging.
304
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305JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
306 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
307 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
308 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
309 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 310 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 311
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312JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
313 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
314 "exiwhat" output.
315
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316PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
317 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
318 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
319
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320JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
321 than 255 are no longer allowed.
322
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323JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
324 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
325 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
326 client, there is no benefit for these.
327 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
328 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
329 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
330 is used (3.2.4 +).
331
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332PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
333 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
334
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335JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
336 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
337 erroneously found still-pending ones.
338
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339JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
340 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
341
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342JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
343 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
344 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
345 signature and again for transmission.
346
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347JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
348 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 349 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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351JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
352 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
353 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
354 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
355 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
356 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
357 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
358
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359JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
360 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
361 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 362 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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364PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
365 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
366 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
367 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
368 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
369 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
370 processing options.
371
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372JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
373 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
374 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
375 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
376 connections.
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378PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
379 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
380 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
381 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
382 versions.
383
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384JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
385 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
386 inaccessible.
387
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388JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
389 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
390 banner-time rejection.
391
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392JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
393 callout/hold.
394
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395PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
396 is the name of a transport.
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397 Fixes bug 2140.
398
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399HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
400
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401JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
402 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
403
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404JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
405 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
406 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
407 during compilation.
408
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409JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
410 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
411 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 412 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 413
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414JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
415 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
416 initial verify call returned a defer.
417
ad1a76fe 418JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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419 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
420
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421JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
422 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
423
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424JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
425 if present. Previously it was ignored.
426
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427JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
428 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
429
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430JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
431 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
432 extensible.
433
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434PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
435 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
436
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437PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
438 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
439 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
440
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441JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
442 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
443 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
444 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
445
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446HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
447 and confused the parent.
448
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449JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
450 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
451
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452JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
453 for log purposes.
454
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455JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
456 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
457 out-of-order delivery.
458
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459JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
460 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
461 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
462 error for the HELO.
463
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464JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
465 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
466 desynchronisation.
467
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468JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
469 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
470 one run was done. Bug 2189.
471
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472JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
473 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
474 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
475 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
476 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
477 message is still "Temporary local problem".
478
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479JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
480 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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481 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
482
483HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
484 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
485 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 486
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487JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
488 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
489 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
490 though a different problem.
491
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9427e879 496JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 497 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 498
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499JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
500
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501PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
502 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
503
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504JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
505 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
506
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507JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
508 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
509 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
510 before acknowledging the chunk.
511
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512PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
513 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
514 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
515
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516JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
517 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
518 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
519 should.
520
521JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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522 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
523 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 524
bd8fbe36 525JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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526 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
527
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528JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
529 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
530 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
531 body hash calculated value.
532
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533JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
534 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
535 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
536
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537JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
538
539JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
540 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
541
542JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
543 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
544 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
545
546JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
547 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
548 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
549 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
550 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
551 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
552
553JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
554 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
555 past that check, despite the cost.
556
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557JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
558 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
559 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
560
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561PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
562 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
563 TLS library to consume.
564
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565PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
566
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567PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
568
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569JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
570 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
571 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
572 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
573 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
574 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
575 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
576
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577PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
578
579PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
580
581PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
582 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
583 should be warning-free.
584
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585JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
586
587HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
588 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
589
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590HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
591 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
592 general solution here.
593
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594PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
595 already-broken messages in the queue.
596
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597JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
598
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599JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
600
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605JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
606 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 607
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608JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
609 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
610 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
611
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612JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
613 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
614 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
615 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
616 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
617 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
618 if one fails this test.
619 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
620 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
621
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622JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
623 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
624
23bb6982 625JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 626 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 627
0bd1b1ed 628JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 629 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 630
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631JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
632 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
633
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634JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
635 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
636
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637JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
638
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639JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
640 certificate).
641
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642JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
643 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
644 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
645 connection after a verify cache hit.
646 Do not update it with the verify result either.
647
648JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
649 when routing results in more than one destination address.
650
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651JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
652 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
653 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
654 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
655 when the cutthrough connection is made).
656
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657JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
658 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
659
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660JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
661 Previously they were not counted.
662
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663JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
664 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
665 that needed the lookup.
666
4c04137d 667JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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668 distinguished as "(=".
669
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670JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
671 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
672
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673JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
674
675JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
676 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 677
4c04137d 678JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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679 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
680
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681JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
682 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
683 compatible.
684
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685JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
686 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
687 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
688 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
689
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690JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
691
f59aaaaa 692JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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693 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
694 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
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696JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
697 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
698 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
699 be lost.
700
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701JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
702 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
703 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
704 itself :(
705
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706JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
707 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
708 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
709
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710JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
711 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
712 options.
713
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714JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
715
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716PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
717 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
718
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719PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
720 are not in the system include path.
721
ad7fc6eb 722JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 723 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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724 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
725 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
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727JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
728 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
729 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
730
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731JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
732
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733HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
734 an incoming connection.
735
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736HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
737 to rspamd.
738
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739HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
740 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 741
87cb4a16 742JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 743 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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749JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
750 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
751 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
752 client dropping the TLS connection.
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754TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
755 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
756
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757TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
758 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
759 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
760 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
761 outgoing I= field.
762
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763JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
764 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
765 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
766 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
767 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
768 check on the next write.
769
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770HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
771 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
772 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
773 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
774 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
775
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776JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
777 mime_regex ACL conditions.
778
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779JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
780 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
781 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
782
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783JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
784 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
785 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
786 an authenticate fail is not an error.
787
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788HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
789 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
790
4c04137d 791JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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792 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
793
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794JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
795 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
796 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
797 distinct.
798
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799JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
800
801JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
802
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803JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
804
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805JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
806 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
807
98b98887 808JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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809 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
810
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811JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
812
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813JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
814 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
815
816JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
817
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818JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
819 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
820
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821JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
822
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823JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
824 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 825 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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826 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
827 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
828 they will retry in-clear.
829 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
830 at installation time.
831
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832HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
833 with the $config_file variable.
834
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835JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
836 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
837 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
838 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 839 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
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841GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
842 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
843 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
844 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
845 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
846
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847JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
848
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849JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
850 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
851 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
852 list order is no longer honoured.
853
4c04137d 854JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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855 for DKIM processing.
856
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857JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
858 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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860JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
861 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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862 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
863 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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865JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
866 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
867
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868JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
869 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
870
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871JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
872 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
873
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874JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
875
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876JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
877 cached by the daemon.
878
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879JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
880 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
881
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882JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
883 keys are given for lookup.
884
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885JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
886 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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887 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
888 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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890JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
891 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
892 server-side so match that on older versions.
893
07c73177 894JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 895 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 896 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 897
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898JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
899 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
900
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901JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
902 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
903 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 904 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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905 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
906 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
907 initial truncated version.
908
ab9152ff 909JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 910
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911JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
912
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913JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
914 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
915
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916JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
917
bc3c7bb7 918HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 919
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920JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
921 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
922 induced overflows.
923
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924JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
925 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
926 stage.
927
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928JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
929 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
930
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931JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
932 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
933 former class.
934
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935JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
936 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
937 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
938
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939JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
940 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
941 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
942 extraction. Accept either.
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948JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
949 expanded.
950
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951JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
952
ad07e9ad
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953JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
954 it.
955
01a4a5c5 956JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 957 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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958 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
959 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
960
cb1d7830 961JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 962 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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963 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
964
610ff438 965JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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966 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
967 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
968 TLS connections
610ff438 969
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970JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
971 sites use this now.
972
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973JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
974 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
975 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
976 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
977 have a dsn_lasthop option.
978
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979JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
980 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 981 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 982
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983JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
984
aeaf5db3
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985JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
986 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
987
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988JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
989 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
990
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991JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
992 /defer_ok option.
993
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994JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
995 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
996
fd4d8871 997JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 998 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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999 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1000
1001JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2aad5761
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1002 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1003 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1004
23763898
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1005JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1006 timeout value per server.
1007
2ad78978
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1008JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1009 now have the list separator specified.
1010
8a512ed5 1011JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1012 option values.
8a512ed5 1013
82c0c8ea 1014JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1015 under OpenSSL.
1016
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1017JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1018
82c0c8ea
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1019JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1020 rather than the verbs used.
1021
b980ed83
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1022JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1023 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1024
6c9ed72e
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1025JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1026
cfab9d68 1027HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1028 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1029
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1030JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1031 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1032
fd4c285c
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1033HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1034 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1035
4c04137d 1036JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1037
d2a2c69b
JH
1038JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1039
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1040JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1041 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1042 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1043 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1044
1f12df4d
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1045JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1046
1f155f8e
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1047JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1048 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1049
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1050JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1051 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1052
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1053JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1054
474f71bf
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1055JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1056
7137ca4b
JH
1057JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1058
dcb1095c
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1059JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1060 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1061
2f460950
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1062JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1063 added for tls authenticator.
1064
2f680c0c
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1065HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1066
9c695f6d 1067
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1071TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1072 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1073 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1074 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1075 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1076 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1077 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1078
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1079TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1080 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1081 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1082 function when detected.
1083
a9b8ec8b
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1084JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1085 cause callback expansion.
1086
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1087TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1088 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1089 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1090 instead of bool when processing it.
1091
0f06b4f2 1092JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1093 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1094
be36e572
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1095JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1096
ac4ef9bd
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1097JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1098
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1099TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1100
c713ca4b
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1101TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1102 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1103
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1104JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1105 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1106 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1107 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1108 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1109 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1110
8bc732e8
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1111JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1112 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1113 exceeded it.
1114
a7fec7a7
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1115JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1116 version 3.3.6 or later.
1117
4c04137d 1118JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1119 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1120 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1121 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1122 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1123 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1124 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1125
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1126TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1127 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1128
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1129JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1130 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1131 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1132 matches.
1133
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1134JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1135 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1136 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1137
ad4c5ff9
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1138JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1139 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
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1140
1141JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1142 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1143 syntax errors.
1144
3394b36a 1145JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
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1146
1147JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1148 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1149
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1150TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1151 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1152 tarball.
1153
ad4c5ff9
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1154JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1155
4c04137d 1156JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
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1157 Bug 1561.
1158
1159JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1160 output list separator was used.
1161
8bc732e8 1162
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1165TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1166 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1167 return.
1f0ebb98 1168
a612424f 1169JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1170 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1171
1172JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1173
1174TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1175 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1176
1f0ebb98 1177
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1180
1181TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1182
1183 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1184 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1185 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1186 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1187 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1188 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1189
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1190TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1191 utilities have not been installed.
1192
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1193JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1194 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1195
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1196TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1197 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1198
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1199TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1200 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1201 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1202 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1203
aa26e137
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1204JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1205
5a1b8443
WB
1206TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1207 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1208
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1209PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1210 not dns_use_dnssec.
1211
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1212JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1213
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1214TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1215 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1216 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1217
8ddef691 1218TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1219 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1220 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1221 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1222 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1223 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1224
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1225JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1226
e45a1c37
JH
1227JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1228 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1229
67d81c10
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1230JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1231 failed delivery.
1232
b1f8e4f8
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1233JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1234
511a6c14 1235JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
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1236
1237JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1238 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1239
51c7471d
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1240JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1241 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1242
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1243TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1244
1e06383a
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1245JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1246
76146973
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1247JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1248 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1249
1250 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1251 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1252 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1253
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1254TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1255 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1256 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1257 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1258
35aba663
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1259JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1260
8c51eead 1261JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1262 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1263 lookup).
8c51eead 1264
deae092e
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1265TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1266 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1267 Schlichting.
35aba663 1268
fd3b6a4a 1269JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1270 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1271
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1272TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1273 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1274
2b4a568d
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1275JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1276
d2af03f4
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1277TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1278 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1279 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1280
9d1c15ef
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1281JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1282 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1283
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1284JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1285 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1286 hosts_request_ocsp.
1287
ed3bba5f 1288JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1289 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1290 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1291
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1292JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1293
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1294TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1295 Christian Aistleitner.
1296
f2de3a33
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1297JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1298
6eb02f88
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1299TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1300 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1301
00bff6f6
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1302JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1303 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1304
071c51f7
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1305JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1306 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1307
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1308TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1309 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1310
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1311TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1312 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1313
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1314TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1315 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1316 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1317
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1318JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1319
66be95e0
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1320PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1321 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1322 Jasper Wallace.
1323
1bd0d12b
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1324JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1325
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1326TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1327 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1328 CVE-2014-2972
1329
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1334PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1335
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1336PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1337 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1338
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1339PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1340 by GnuTLS.
1341
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1342PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1343 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1344 routines.
1345
13363eba 1346PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1347
66645890 1348PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1349 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1350 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1351 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1352 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1353
a3fb9793 1354PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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1355 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1356 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1357 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1358 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1359 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1360
d27f98fe 1361TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1362
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1363TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1364
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1365TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1366 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1367
ae0e32ee 1368TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1369 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1370 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1371
1372TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1373
e2658fff
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1374TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1375
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1376TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1377 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1378
976b7e9f
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1379JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1380
be4a1376
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1381JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1382
ec4b68e5
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1383PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1384
d7148a07
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1385NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1386 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1387
585121e2 1388JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1389
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1390PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1391 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1392 function.
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1394PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1395 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1396
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1397JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1398 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1399 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1400
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1401JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1402
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1403JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1404
ea722490 1405JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1406 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1407
b1b05573
JH
1408JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1409 Bugzilla 884.
1410
362145b5
JH
1411JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1412 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1413
3c0a92dc
JH
1414JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1415 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1416
6d7c6175
PP
1417PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1418 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1419 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1420
6f123593
JH
1421JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1422 authenticators.
1423
c8e2fc1e
JH
1424JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1425 for control.
1426
005ac57f
PP
1427PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1428
3f1df0e3
PP
1429PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1430 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1431 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1432 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1433
67bd1ab3
TF
1434TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1435
1436 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1437 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1438 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1439 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1440 the retry rules.
1441
1442 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1443 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1444 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1445
1446 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1447 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1448 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1449 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1450
1ddeb334
TF
1451 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1452 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1453 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1454 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1455 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1456 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1457 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1458
1459 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1460 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1461
326cdc37
TF
1462TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1463
1464 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1465
1466 Resent-From: f
1467
1468 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1469 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1470 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1471 username as equal to the username.
1472
1473 This change corrects that bug.
1474
f62514b3
GF
1475GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1476 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1477 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1478
eb505532
TF
1479TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1480
14c7b357
PP
1481PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1482 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1483 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1484 NULL dereference and crash.
1485
94eaf700
PP
1486JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1487
6f5a440a
PP
1488PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1489 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1490 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1491
514ee161
SC
1492SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1493
fd98a5c6
JH
1494JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1495 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1496 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1497 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1498 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1499 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1500 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1501 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1502 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1503 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1504 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1505
035c7f1e
PP
1506PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1507 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1508
ff284120
PP
1509PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1510 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1511 Bugzilla 880.
1512
26e72755
PP
1513PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1514 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1515 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1516 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1517 an empty string is now equivalent.
1518
0fbd9bff
PP
1519PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1520 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1521 not performing validation itself.
1522
700d22f3
PP
1523PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1524 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1525
fcc8e047
JH
1526JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1527 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1528
4c04137d 1529TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1530
8c020188
PP
1531PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1532 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1533 other false fix of the same issue.
1534 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1535 Bugzilla 1363.
1536
d13cdd30
PP
1537PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1538 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1539
e2fbf4a2
PP
1540PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1541 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1542 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1543
f4c1088b
PP
1544PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1545 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1546 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1547
c5c2182f
PP
1548TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1549
73431ca9
JH
1550JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1551
2d07a215
TL
1552TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1553 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1554
a30a8861
TL
1555TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1556 Alexander Miroch.
1557
33382dd9
TL
1558TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1559 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1560 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1561 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1562 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1563
046172e6
TL
1564TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1565 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1566
581d7bee 1567TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1568 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1569 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1570
1571TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1572 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1573 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1574 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1575
237b2cf2
TL
1576TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1577
9fc5a352
TL
1578TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1579 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1580 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1581
b10e4ec2
TL
1582TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1583
e2cebd74
TL
1584TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1585 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1586 interaction.
1587
1588TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1589 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1590
2519e60d
TL
1591TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1592 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1593
e78e6ecf 1594
4263f395
PP
1595Exim version 4.80.1
1596-------------------
1597
1598PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1599 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1600 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1601
ea722490 1602
b1770b6e 1603Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1604-----------------
1605
1606PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1607 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1608 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1609
23c7e742
NM
1610NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1611
b322aac8
NM
1612NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1613 improved.
1614
4a891427
NM
1615NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1616
c1e794ba 1617PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1618
97753960
PP
1619PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1620
1621PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1622 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1623
df6303fa
PP
1624PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1625 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1626
7e6a8985
PP
1627PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1628 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1629
f1e05cc7 1630PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1631 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1632 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1633
4c287009
PP
1634PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1635
b98bb9ac
PP
1636PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1637 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1638
4a6a987a
PP
1639PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1640
c45dd180 1641PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1642
7db8d074
PP
1643PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1644 non-compliant senders.
1645 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1646
eae0036b 1647NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1648 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1649 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1650
dec5017e
PP
1651PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1652 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1653 in spool file corruption.
1654
c80c5570
PP
1655PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1656 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1657 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1658 "Got SSL error 2".
1659
076b11e2
PP
1660TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1661 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1662 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1663
5407bfff
JH
1664JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1665 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1666
9e45c72b
PP
1667JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1668
e74376d8
PP
1669PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1670 diagnostics.
1671 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1672
4c04137d 1673PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1674 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1675 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1676
7be682ca
PP
1677PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1678 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1679 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1680 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1681
ef840681
PP
1682PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1683 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1684
5bfb4cdf
PP
1685PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1686 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1687 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1688 resolver implementation change.
1689
c6e95d22
PP
1690PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1691 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1692
9cbad13b
PP
1693PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1694
9ee44efb
PP
1695PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1696
6a6084f8
PP
1697PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1698 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1699
12dd53c7
PP
1700PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1701 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1702
9e45c72b 1703JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1704 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1705
17c76198
PP
1706PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1707 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1708 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1709 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1710 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1711
53947857 1712PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1713
eae0036b 1714PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1715 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1716 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1717
9e45c72b 1718JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1719
7390e768
PP
1720PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1721 read-only, out of scope).
1722 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1723
08488c86
PP
1724PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1725 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1726 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1727 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1728
6475bd82
PP
1729PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1730
81f91683
PP
1731PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1732 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1733 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1734 real issues in debug logging.
1735
5779e6aa
PP
1736PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1737 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1738
3375e053
PP
1739PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1740 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1741 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1742
1743PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1744 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1745 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1746 problems.
3375e053 1747
9d26b8c0
PP
1748PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1749 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1750
57eb9e91 1751PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1752 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1753 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1754 needs to override this, it can.
1755
16880d1a
PP
1756PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1757 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1758 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1759
a799883d
PP
1760PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1761 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1762 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1763 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1764
3ecab157 1765PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1766
0599f9cf 1767
867fcbf5
PP
1768Exim version 4.77
1769-----------------
1770
1771PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1772 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1773
f1a29782
TF
1774TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1775
ab42bd23
TK
1776TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1777 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1778
0ca0cf52
TF
1779TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1780 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1781
921b12ca
TF
1782TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1783 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1784 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1785
1786 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1787 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1788 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1789 not safe for signals.
1790
1791 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1792 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1793 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1794 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1795 exiwhat.
1796
c99ce5c9
TF
1797TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1798
1799 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1800 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1801 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1802 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1803 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1804
1805 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1806 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1807 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1808 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1809 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1810 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1811
1812 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1813 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1814 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1815 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1816
1817 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1818 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1819 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1820 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1821
1822 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1823 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1824 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1825 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1826 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1827 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1828 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1829 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1830 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1831
1832 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1833 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1834 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1835 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1836
1837 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1838 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1839 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1840 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1841 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1842 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1843 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1844 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1845 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1846 details in the main documentation.
1847
3634fc25
TF
1848TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1849
792e8a19
TF
1850TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1851
5901f0ab
TF
1852TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1853 repository when doing development or release builds.
1854
7f2a2a43
PP
1855PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1856 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1857
061b7ebd
PP
1858PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1859 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1860 Bugzilla 97.
1861
e12f8c32
PP
1862PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1863
9e949f00 1864PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1865 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1866
1867PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1868 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1869
555ae6af 1870PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1871 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1872
1873PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1874 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1875
6f7fe114
PP
1876PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1877 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1878
c566dd90
PP
1879PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1880 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1881 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1882 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1883
d6cc7c78 1884PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1885 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1886 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1887
0d0e4455
PP
1888PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1889
3399bb60 1890PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1891
1892PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1893 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1894
0ca0cf52 1895
10906672
PP
1896Exim version 4.76
1897-----------------
1898
1899PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1900
754a0503
PP
1901PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1902 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1903
c0c7b2da
PP
1904PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1905
e97d1f08
PP
1906PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1907
084c1d8c
PP
1908PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1909 Bugzilla 1098.
1910
4e7ee012
PP
1911PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1912 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1913
c8d52a00
PP
1914TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1915 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1916
54e7ce4a
PP
1917PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1918 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1919
5ee6f336
PP
1920PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1921 Bugzilla 1104.
1922
c8d52a00 1923TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1924 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1925
1926TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1927 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1928 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1929 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1930
1931PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1932 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1933
10906672 1934
aa097c4c
NM
1935Exim version 4.75
1936-----------------
1937
4c04137d 1938NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1939 Bugzilla 1073
1940
7f3d9eff
TF
1941TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1942 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1943 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1944
159f52d2
TF
1945TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1946 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1947
0cc9542a
PP
1948PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1949 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1950 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1951
f7274286
PP
1952PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1953 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1954
7b797365
PP
1955PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1956 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1957
caacae52
NM
1958NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1959 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1960
09dcaba9
NM
1961NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1962 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1963
bc19a55b
PP
1964PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1965 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1966
bd4c9759
NM
1967NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1968 Fixes bug 943.
1969
b72aab72
PP
1970PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1971 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1972
2fe76745
PP
1973PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1974 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1975
76aa570c
PP
1976PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1977 SQL string expansion failure details.
1978 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1979
f1e5fef5
PP
1980PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1981 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1982
4d805ee9
PP
1983PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1984 extern declarations in function scope.
1985 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1986
cd59ab18
PP
1987PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1988 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1989 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1990 a kernel bug).
1991
332f5cf3
PP
1992PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1993 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1994
29cfeb94
PP
1995PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1996 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1997
660242ad
PP
1998PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1999 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2000
bc4bc4c5
PP
2001PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2002 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2003
2e64baa9
NM
2004NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2005 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2006 Dennis Davis.
2007
4c04137d 2008PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2009
6bac1a9a
PP
2010PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2011
552193f0
NM
2012NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2013 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2014
1b587e48
TF
2015TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2016 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2017
aa097c4c 2018
8c07b69f
TF
2019Exim version 4.74
2020-----------------
2021
2022TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2023 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2024
c0ea85ab
TF
2025TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2026 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2027
0761d44e
TF
2028TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2029
0a349494
PP
2030DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2031 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2032 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2033
2034PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2035 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2036 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2037
fea24b2e
PP
2038PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2039 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2040 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2041 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2042
6545de78
PP
2043PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2044 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2045 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2046 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2047
1670ef10
PP
2048PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2049 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2050 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2051 arbitrary files.
2052
c0886197
PP
2053PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2054 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2055
b7487bce
PP
2056PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2057 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2058 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2059 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2060 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2061
8c07b69f 2062
97fd1e48 2063Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2064-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2065
2066PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2067 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2068 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2069
6901c596
PP
2070PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2071 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2072
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2073JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2074
77bb000f
PP
2075PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2076
a29e5231
PP
2077PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2078
ec5a0394 2079PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2080
55c75993
PP
2081PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2082
453a6645 2083PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2084 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2085 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2086 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2087
8544e77a
PP
2088PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2089 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2090 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2091 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2092 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2093
83e029d5
PP
2094PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2095
ed7f7860
PP
2096PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2097
7d9f747b
PP
2098PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2099
4b2241d2
PP
2100PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2101
10385c15
PP
2102PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2103
dbc4b90d
PP
2104PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2105
532be449
PP
2106PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2107
6a8de854 2108PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2109 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2110 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2111
5dc43717
JJ
2112JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2113
2114JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2115 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2116
3346ab01
PP
2117PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2118 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2119
491fab4c
PP
2120PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2121 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2122 Notification from John Horne.
2123
13eb9497
PP
2124PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2125 compatible.
2126
2127PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2128 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2129 it normally works.
2130
7f36d675
DW
2131DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2132 access.
2133
c1d94452
DW
2134DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2135 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2136 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2137
e2f5dc15
DW
2138DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2139 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2140 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2141 configuration file.
2142
cd25e41d
DW
2143DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2144 option (effectively making it always true).
2145
261dc43e
DW
2146DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2147 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2148
fa32850b
DW
2149DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2150 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2151
79d4bc3d
PP
2152PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2153 run-time user, instead of root.
2154
43236f35 2155PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2156 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2157
fb08281f
DW
2158DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2159 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2160 arguments.
3346ab01 2161
74935b98
DW
2162DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2163 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2164 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2165
90b6341f
DW
2166DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2167
57730b52
ML
2168NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2169
66581d1e 2170
465e92cf
JJ
2171Exim version 4.72
2172-----------------
2173
453a6645
PP
2174JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2175 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2176 typos
465e92cf 2177
453a6645
PP
2178JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2179 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2180 (Finput)
edae0343 2181
9bd3e22c
NM
2182NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2183 Patch from Alain Williams
2184
bb576ff7
NM
2185NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2186
5a1a5845
NM
2187NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2188 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2189
981a9fad
NM
2190NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2191 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2192
7fc497ee
NM
2193NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2194
1a41defa
JJ
2195JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2196
a466095c 2197NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2198 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2199
94a6bd0b
NM
2200TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2201
2202TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2203
2204MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2205 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2206 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2207
c1b141a8
NM
2208NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2209 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2210
b26eacf1 2211NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2212 Patch by Simon Arlott
2213
179c5980 2214PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2215 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2216
9bd3e22c 2217
7c6d71af
NM
2218Exim version 4.71
2219-----------------
2220
7d9f747b 2221TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2222
f013fb92
NM
2223NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2224
0eb8eedd
NM
2225NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2226
663ee6d9
NM
2227NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2228
177ebd9b
NM
2229NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2230
7c6d71af 2231
210f147e
NM
2232Exim version 4.70
2233-----------------
2234
cdd3bb85 2235TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2236 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2237
2238TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2239 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2240 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2241
2242TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2243 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2244 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2245
2246TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2247 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2248
210f147e
NM
2249NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2250 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2251 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2252 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2253
deafd5b3
NM
2254NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2255 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2256 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2257
089793a4
TF
2258TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2259
5f16ca82
TF
2260TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2261
dae9d94e 2262NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2263 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2264
7d9f747b 2265NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2266
06864c44
TF
2267TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2268 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2269 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2270 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2271
65a7d8c3 2272NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2273 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2274
23510047 2275TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2276
7d9f747b 2277NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2278
7d8eec3a 2279NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2280 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2281
89dec7b6
TF
2282TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2283 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2284
a99de90c
TF
2285TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2286 that they are available at delivery time.
2287
e2803e40
TF
2288TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2289
7199e1ee
TF
2290TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2291 incoming_port log selectors.
2292
e276e04b
TF
2293TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2294 setting expands to an empty string.
2295
ce552449 2296NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2297 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2298
e765a0f1 2299NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2300 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2301
4f054c63 2302NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2303 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2304
7d9f747b
PP
2305NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2306 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2307
7d9f747b
PP
2308NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2309 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2310
b52bc06e 2311NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2312 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2313
447de4b0
NM
2314NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2315
4c69d561 2316NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2317 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2318
d5c39246 2319NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2320 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2321
0b23848a
TK
2322TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2323
8f3414a1 2324NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2325 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2326
fb6f955d
NM
2327NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2328
2329NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2330
7d9f747b
PP
2331NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2332 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2333
7d9f747b
PP
2334NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2335 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2336
7d9f747b
PP
2337NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2338 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2339
7d9f747b
PP
2340NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2341 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2342
7d9f747b
PP
2343NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2344 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2345
7d9f747b
PP
2346NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2347 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2348
7d9f747b
PP
2349NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2350 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2351
7d9f747b 2352NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2353 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2354
7d9f747b 2355NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2356
7d9f747b
PP
2357NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2358 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2359
7d9f747b 2360NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2361
7d9f747b 2362NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2363
7d9f747b 2364NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2365
7d9f747b 2366NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2367
17792b53 2368NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2369 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2370
7d9f747b
PP
2371NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2372 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2373
91576cec 2374NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2375 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2376
7d9f747b
PP
2377NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2378 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2379
7d9f747b 2380NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2381
7d9f747b 2382NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2383
7d9f747b 2384NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2385
7d9f747b 2386NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2387
deafd5b3 2388
47db1125
NM
2389Exim version 4.69
2390-----------------
2391
4b3504d0
TK
2392TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2393 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2394 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2395
2396 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2397 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2398 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2399 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2400 build errors in sieve.c.
2401
81ea09ca
NM
2402NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2403 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2404 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2405
f13cddcb
SC
2406SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2407
7d9f747b 2408NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2409
7d9f747b 2410NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2411
7d9f747b 2412NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2413
2414
eb4c0de6
PH
2415Exim version 4.68
2416-----------------
2417
2418PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2419
6a3bceb1
PH
2420PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2421 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2422 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2423 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2424 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2425 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2426 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2427 for iplsearch lookups.
2428
2429 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2430 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2431 previously such lookups could never work.
2432
4c04137d 2433 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2434 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2435 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2436
2e30fa9d
TK
2437TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2438 version.
2439
0806a9c5
MH
2440MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2441 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2442 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2443 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2444 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2445 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2446
ae276964
TK
2447TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2448 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2449
0f2cbd1b
MH
2450MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2451 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2452 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2453 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2454 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2455 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2456
2b85bce7
PH
2457PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2458 local_scan API.
2459
93655c46
PH
2460PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2461
6c512171
PH
2462PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2463 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2464 encrypted.
2465
2466PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2467 by clients under certain conditions.
2468
aa6dc513
PH
2469PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2470 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2471
a96603a0
PH
2472PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2473
8f240103
PH
2474PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2475 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2476
2477PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2478
d677b2f2
PH
2479PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2480
d52120f2
PH
2481PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2482
64f2600a
PH
2483PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2484 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2485
8669f003
PH
2486PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2487
a4dc33a8
PH
2488PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2489 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2490
d6a60c0f
PH
2491PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2492
8f128379
PH
2493PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2494
8932dffe
PH
2495PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2496 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2497 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2498 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2499
ddea74fa 2500PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2501 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2502 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2503
ddea74fa 2504PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2505 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2506
ddea74fa
PH
2507PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2508
ce9f225c
PH
2509PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2510
19897d52
PH
2511PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2512
bc64a74d
PH
2513PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2514 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2515 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2516
eb4c0de6 2517
b4ed4da0
PH
2518Exim version 4.67
2519-----------------
2520
22ad45c9
MH
2521MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2522 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2523 Jan Srzednicki.
2524
b4ed4da0
PH
2525PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2526 issue a MAIL command.
2527
431b7361
PH
2528PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2529
2530 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2531
2532 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2533 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2534 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2535 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2536 item. This has been fixed.
2537
2538PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2539 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2540
83da1223
PH
2541PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2542 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2543
54fc8428
PH
2544PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2545 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2546 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2547
34c5e8dd
SC
2548SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2549
bbe15da8
PH
2550PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2551 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2552 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2553 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2554 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2555
0e8a9471
MH
2556MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2557 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2558 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2559
f0872424
PH
2560PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2561 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2562 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2563 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2564
b01dd148
PH
2565PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2566
6bf342e1
PH
2567PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2568
273f34d0
PH
2569PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2570 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2571 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2572 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2573 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2574
cf8b11a5
PH
2575PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2576
41c7c167
PH
2577PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2578 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2579 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2580 values).
2581
9c57cbc0
PH
2582PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2583
f3f065bb
PH
2584PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2585
047bdd8c
PH
2586PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2587
0ce9abe6
PH
2588PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2589
0e22dfd1
PH
2590PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2591
4c590bd1
PH
2592PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2593 no_callout_flush is set.
2594
09945f1e
PH
2595PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2596 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2597 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2598 fixed.
2599
c51b8e75
PH
2600PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2601
e28326d8 2602PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2603 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2604 other ACL rejections are.
2605
75b1493f
PH
2606PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2607 with slight modification.
2608
7c5214ec
PH
2609PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2610 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2611
4311097e
PH
2612PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2613 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2614 connection.
2615
29f89cad
PH
2616PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2617 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2618
5e687460
SC
2619SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2620
c3611384
PH
2621PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2622 expansion side effects.
2623
5a11a7b4
PH
2624PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2625 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2626 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2627 be the same.
2628
0e20aff9
MH
2629MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2630 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2631 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2632
ca86f471
PH
2633PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2634 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2635 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2636 were accidentally chopped off.
2637
a14e5636
PH
2638PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2639 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2640 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2641 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2642 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2643 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2644 pipelining has not been advertised.
2645
ec95d1a6
PH
2646PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2647
42855d71
PH
2648PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2649 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2650 This has been fixed.
2651
57c2c631
PH
2652PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2653 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2654 reported on Solaris.
2655
58c01c94
PH
2656PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2657 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2658 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2659 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2660 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2661 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2662 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2663
dee5a20a
PH
2664PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2665 cpus.
2666
d2ee6114
PH
2667PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2668
b2d5182b
PH
2669PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2670
79749a79
PH
2671PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2672 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2673 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2674 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2675 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2676 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2677
c456d9bb
PH
2678PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2679 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2680 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2681 host_all_ignored option.
2682
cd9868ec
PH
2683PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2684 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2685 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2686 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2687 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2688 is what is supposed to happen).
2689
ebeaf996
PH
2690PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2691 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2692 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2693 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2694 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2695 uses the Exim user.
2696
2679d413
PH
2697PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2698 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2699 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2700 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2701 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2702 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2703 users.
2704
84024b72
PH
2705PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2706
8005d38e
SC
2707SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2708 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2709 (Jez Hancock).
2710 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2711 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2712
3298c6c6
SC
2713SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2714
a43a27c5
PH
2715PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2716
58eb016e 2717PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2718 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2719 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2720 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2721 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2722 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2723 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2724 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2725 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2726 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2727 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2728
b43a74ea
PH
2729PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2730 advertised in response to EHLO.
2731
b4ed4da0 2732
5dd1517f
PH
2733Exim version 4.66
2734-----------------
2735
2736PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2737 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2738
2739 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2740 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2741
2742 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2743 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2744 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2745
2746 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2747 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2748 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2749 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2750 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2751
2752
93cfa765
TK
2753Exim version 4.65
2754-----------------
2755
2756TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2757 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2758 versions. (#438)
2759
d6066548
MH
2760MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2761 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2762 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2763
4362ff0d
PH
2764PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2765 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2766 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2767 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2768 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2769 rather than extend the field.
2770
93cfa765 2771
944e9e9c
TF
2772Exim version 4.64
2773-----------------
aa41d2de 2774
21d74bd9
TK
2775TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2776 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2777 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2778 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2779 these files.
2780
2781TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2782 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2783 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2784
2785TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2786 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2787 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2788
2789TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2790 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2791 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2792 in the field name.
2793
2b1c6e3a
PH
2794PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2795 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2796 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2797 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2798 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2799 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2800 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2801 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2802 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2803 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2804 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2805
1f872c80
PH
2806PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2807 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2808
2809PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2810 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2811 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2812 ignores EPIPE as well.
2813
d203e649
PH
2814PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2815 (quoted-printable decoding).
2816
cc2ed8f7 2817PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2818 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2819
ddfcd446
PH
2820PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2821
d45b1de8
PH
2822PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2823
2824PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2825
38a0a95f 2826PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2827 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2828
a2405d83
JJ
2829JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2830 in 4.64-PH/09.
2831
2832JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2833 miscellaneous code fixes
2834
6ea85e9a
PH
2835PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2836 rejections.
2837
26da7e20
PH
2838PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2839 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2840 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2841 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2842 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2843 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2844 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2845 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2846
14aa5a05 2847PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2848 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2849 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2850 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2851 function.
2852 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2853 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2854 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2855 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2856 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2857 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2858 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2859 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2860 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2861
ff75a1f7
PH
2862PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2863 decoding.
2864
e6f6568e
PH
2865PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2866 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2867 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2868 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2869 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2870 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2871 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2872 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2873
d6f6e0dc
PH
2874PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2875 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2876 list.
2877
322050c2
PH
2878PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2879 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2880 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2881 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2882 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2883 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2884 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2885 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2886 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2887 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2888 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2889 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2890 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2891
08955dd3
PH
2892PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2893 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2894 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2895 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2896 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2897 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2898 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2899
1eccaa59
PH
2900PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2901 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2902 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2903 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2904 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2905 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2906 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2907 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2908 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2909 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2910
602e59e5
PH
2911PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2912 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2913 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2914 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2915 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2916
411ef850
PH
2917PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2918 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2919 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2920 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2921 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2922 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2923 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2924
7befa435
PH
2925PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2926 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2927 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2928 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2929 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2930 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2931 been verified.
2932
48da4259 2933PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2934 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2935 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2936 and authorization.)
2937
48da4259
PH
2938PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2939 if any retry times were supplied.
2940
d1d5595c
PH
2941PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2942 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2943 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2944
0ef732d9
PH
2945PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2946
328895cc
PH
2947PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2948
fd700877
PH
2949PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2950 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2951 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2952 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2953 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2954 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2955
8dce1a6f
PH
2956PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2957 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2958
17af4a17
PH
2959PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2960 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2961 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2962
2963PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2964 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2965 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2966 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2967 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2968 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2969 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2970 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2971 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2972
2973 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2974 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2975 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2976 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2977 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2978 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2979 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2980 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2981 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2982
2983 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2984 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2985 hammering the server.
2986
c1114884
PH
2987PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2988 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2989
7a0743eb
PH
2990PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2991
0d85fa3f
PH
2992PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2993 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2994 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2995
1bf43b78
PH
2996PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2997 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2998 one case where this was not true.
2999
520de300
PH
3000PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3001 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3002 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3003 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3004 fails.
3005
48c7f9e2
PH
3006PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3007 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3008 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3009 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3010 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3011 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3012 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3013 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3014 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3015 smtp transport.
3016
99ea1c86
PH
3017PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3018 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3019 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3020 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3021
a2042e78
PH
3022PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3023 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3024
4fbcfc2e
PH
3025PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3026 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3027 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3028
aa41d2de
PH
3029PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3030
af561417
PH
3031PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3032
3cc66b45
PH
3033PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3034
194cc0e4
PH
3035PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3036 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3037 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3038 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3039
a401ddaa
PH
3040PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3041 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3042
4e88a19f
PH
3043PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3044 be meaningful with "accept".
3045
d7d7b289
SC
3046SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3047 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3048
3049SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3050 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3051 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3052
3053SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3054 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3055 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3056 there is data to show.
3057 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3058
3059SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3060 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3061 as well as the number of messages.
3062
3063SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3064 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3065 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3066
3067SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3068 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3069 have a flag are now skipped.
3070
3071SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3072 Added the -emptyok flag.
3073
3074SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3075 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3076
0ea2a468
JJ
3077JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3078 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3079 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3080
3081JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3082 match 4.64-PH/13
3083
3084JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3085 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3086
3087JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3088
3089JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3090 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3091
8a10f5a4
PH
3092PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3093
30e18802
PH
3094PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3095 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3096 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3097 contravention of the specifications.
3098
55728a4f
PH
3099PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3100 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3101 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3102
d7837193
PH
3103PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3104 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3105 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3106
87054a31
PH
3107PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3108
ea2c01d2
MH
3109MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3110 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3111 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3112 some point in the past.
3113
e4fa6968
PH
3114PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3115 transport during callout processing was broken.
3116
56f5d9bd
PH
3117PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3118 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3119
922e1c28
PH
3120PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3121 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3122
21eb6e72
PH
3123PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3124 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3125
a0540757
PH
3126PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3127
944e9e9c 3128
478be7b0
SC
3129Exim version 4.63
3130-----------------
3131
3132SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3133 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3134
3135SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3136 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3137 there is data to show.
3138 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3139
3140SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3141 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3142
2b965a65
TF
3143TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3144 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3145
45b91596
PH
3146TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3147 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3148
c59f5781
TF
3149TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3150 submissions from trusted users.
3151
90fc3069
TF
3152TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3153 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3154
6083aca0
TF
3155TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3156 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3157 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3158 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3159 there is now a framework to start from.
3160
765b530f
PH
3161PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3162 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3163 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3164
4e167a8c
PH
3165PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3166
4608d683
PH
3167PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3168
b8dc3e4a
PH
3169PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3170
5418e93b
PH
3171PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3172 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3173 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3174
b4a9bda2
PH
3175PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3176 libradius.
3177
45b91596
PH
3178PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3179 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3180 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3181
5547e2c5
PH
3182PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3183 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3184 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3185 its arguments.
3186
dbcef0ea
PH
3187PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3188 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3189 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3190 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3191 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3192
25257489
PH
3193PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3194 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3195
c816d124
PH
3196PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3197
a9ccd69a
PH
3198PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3199 operations in malware.c.
3200
75fa1910
PH
3201PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3202 signatures.
3203
a7d7aa58
PH
3204PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3205 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3206 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3207 all.
3208
42119b09
PH
3209PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3210 statements to "add_header".
3211
41609df5
PH
3212PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3213 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3214
a5bd321b
PH
3215PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3216 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3217 latter.
3218
e85a7ad5 3219PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3220 so that it is now:
3221
e85a7ad5
PH
3222 ${if or { \
3223 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3224 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3225 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3226 }{no}{yes}}
3227
e85a7ad5
PH
3228 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3229 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3230
d8fe1c03
PH
3231PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3232 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3233
16282d2b
PH
3234PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3235 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3236 any possible encoding problems.
3237
35d40a98
PH
3238PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3239 but not after initializing Perl.
3240
034d99ab
PH
3241PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3242 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3243 apparently, which is not desirable.
3244
6ec97b1b
PH
3245PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3246 queries.
3247
e22ca4ac
JJ
3248JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3249 --not options
3250
3251JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3252
33d73e3b
PH
3253PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3254 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3255 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3256 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3257
9ecb03f3
PH
3258PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3259 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3260 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3261
084efe8d
PH
3262PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3263 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3264 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3265 0.12.
3266
366fc9f0
PH
3267PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3268 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3269 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3270 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3271 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3272
c59f5781 3273
c887c79e
TF
3274Exim version 4.62
3275-----------------
3276
3277TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3278 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3279
1cce3af8
PH
3280PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3281 patch).
3282
afb3eaaf
PH
3283PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3284 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3285 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3286 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3287 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3288 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3289 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3290 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3291 451 error is used.
3292
e173618b
PH
3293PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3294
dd16e114
PH
3295PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3296 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3297 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3298
f7fd3850
PH
3299PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3300 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3301 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3302 odd errors.
3303
d87df92c
PH
3304PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3305 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3306
7e9f683d
PH
3307PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3308 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3309 option (which defaults to 0600).
3310
bfad5236
PH
3311PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3312
01c490df
PH
3313PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3314 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3315 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3316 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3317 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3318 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3319 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3320
d6629cdc
PH
3321PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3322
1cce3af8 3323
214e2000
PH
3324Exim version 4.61
3325-----------------
3326
3327PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3328 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3329 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3330 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3331 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3332 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3333 addresses as local.
3334
f9daeae0
PH
3335PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3336 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3337
7e66e54d
PH
3338PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3339
c8ea1597
PH
3340PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3341 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3342 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3343 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3344 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3345 grumble.
3346
911f6fde
PH
3347PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3348 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3349
47ca6d6c
PH
3350PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3351 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3352 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3353 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3354 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3355
ed0e9820
PH
3356PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3357 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3358 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3359 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3360
eff37e47
PH
3361PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3362 be the same on different OS.
3363
1921d2ea
PH
3364PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3365 testing.
3366
b3f69ca8
JJ
3367JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3368 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3369
3370JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3371 in 4.61-PH/06
3372
424a1c63
PH
3373PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3374 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3375 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3376 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3377 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3378 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3379 bounce message.
3380
7a100415
PH
3381PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3382 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3383 when Exim was called.
3384
19b9dc85
PH
3385PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3386 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3387
309bd837
PH
3388PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3389 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3390 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3391 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3392
59e82a2a
PH
3393PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3394 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3395 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3396 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3397 changes:
3398
3399 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3400 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3401 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3402
3403 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3404 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3405 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3406
9edc04ce
PH
3407PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3408 feature).
3409
1349e1e5
PH
3410PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3411 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3412 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3413 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3414 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3415 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3416 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3417 values from the SRV records were lost.
3418
ea49d0e1
PH
3419PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3420 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3421 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3422
064a94c9
PH
3423PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3424 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3425 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3426
727071f8
PH
3427PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3428 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3429 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3430 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3431 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3432 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3433 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3434 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3435 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3436 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3437
f78eb7c6
PH
3438PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3439 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3440 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3441
21c28500
PH
3442PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3443 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3444
3445PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3446 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3447 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3448 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3449 is given.
3450
1688f43b
PH
3451PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3452 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3453 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3454
3455PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3456 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3457 PH/23 above applies.
3458
9675b384
PH
3459PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3460 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3461 (for which there is an explicit test).
3462
6a3f1455
PH
3463PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3464
dac79d3e
PH
3465PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3466 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3467 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3468 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3469 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3470
5977a0b3
PH
3471PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3472 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3473 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3474 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3475
c91535f3
PH
3476PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3477 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3478 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3479
0d46a8c8
PH
3480PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3481
278c6e6c
PH
3482PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3483
2cbb4081
PH
3484PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3485 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3486 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3487
3eef829e
PH
3488PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3489 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3490 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3491 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3492 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3493
1ab95fa6
PH
3494PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3495 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3496 the message gets confusing).
3497
230205fc
PH
3498PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3499 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3500 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3501 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3502
75e0e026
PH
3503PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3504 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3505 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3506 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3507 same order.
3508
3509PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3510 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3511 the different processes.
3512
145396a6
PH
3513PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3514
3cd34f13
PH
3515PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3516
11121d3d
JJ
3517JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3518 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3519
3520JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3521 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3522
3523JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3524 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3525 messages matching specified criteria.
3526
8def5aaf
PH
3527PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3528
929ba01c
PH
3529PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3530 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3531
2632889e
PH
3532PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3533 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3534 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3535 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3536 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3537 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3538 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3539 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3540 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3541 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3542
944a9c55
PH
3543PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3544 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3545 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3546
4a23603b
PH
3547PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3548
4730f942
PH
3549PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3550 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3551 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3552 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3553 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3554 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3555 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3556 the variable.
3557
30dba1e6
PH
3558PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3559 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3560
382afc6b
PH
3561PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3562
a86229cf
PH
3563PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3564
50c99ba6
PH
3565PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3566
d35e429d
PH
3567PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3568 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3569 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3570 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3571 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3572 size of the count of files.
3573
f90d018c
PH
3574PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3575
75def545
PH
3576PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3577 used in LMTP mode:
3578
3579 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3580 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3581 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3582 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3583
3584 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3585 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3586 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3587
3588PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3589 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3590 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3591 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3592 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3593
c46782ef
PH
3594PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3595 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3596
71fafd95
PH
3597PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3598 will now be deprecated.
3599
2c5db4fd
PH
3600PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3601
9cf6b11a
JJ
3602JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3603 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3604 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3605
3606JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3607 with very large, slow to parse queues
3608
3609JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3610
3611JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3612
898d150f
PH
3613PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3614 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3615 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3616 SMTP output lines.
3617
46218253
PH
3618PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3619 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3620 Sieve code now uses this.
3621
e97957bc
PH
3622PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3623 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3624
81e509d7
PH
3625PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3626 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3627
3d240ff7
PH
3628PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3629
b37c4101
PH
3630PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3631 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3632 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3633 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3634 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3635
79378e0f
PH
3636PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3637 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3638 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3639 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3640
e49c7bb4
PH
3641PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3642
d114ec46
PH
3643PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3644
f3d7df6c
PH
3645PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3646 is preferred over IPv4.
3647
715ab376
PH
3648PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3649 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3650 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3651 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3652 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3653 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3654 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3655
6b31b150
PH
3656PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3657 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3658 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3659
3660PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3661
d515a917
PH
3662PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3663 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3664 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3665 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3666 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3667 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3668 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3669 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3670 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3671 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3672 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3673
9b8fadde
PH
3674PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3675 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3676 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3677
214e2000 3678
5de37277
PH
3679Exim version 4.60
3680-----------------
3681
cc38ddbf
PH
3682PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3683
3684 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3685 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3686
3687 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3688 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3689 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3690
72fdd6ae
PH
3691PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3692
3693 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3694 not a single digit.
3695
3696 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3697 string.
3698
3699 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3700 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3701 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3702 silly things.
3703
3704 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3705 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3706
3707 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3708 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3709
cb741023
PH
3710PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3711 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3712 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3713
f174f16e
PH
3714PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3715 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3716
c25242d7
PH
3717PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3718 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3719
3720 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3721
3722 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3723 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3724 this:
3725
3726 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3727
82c19f95
PH
3728PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3729 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3730 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3731 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3732 identical. For example:
3733
3734 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3735
3736 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3737 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3738 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3739
d7ffbc12
PH
3740PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3741 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3742 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3743 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3744
9f526266
PH
3745PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3746 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3747 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3748 message.
3749
87fcc8b9
PH
3750PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3751
3752 o fixes some comments
3753 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3754 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3755 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3756 and documents the missing references header update
3757
3758 and most important:
3759
3760 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3761 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3762 result)
3763
456682f5
PH
3764PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3765 Electronic Mail") by including:
3766
3767 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3768
3769 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3770 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3771 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3772 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3773 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3774
3775 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3776
3777 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3778
3779 The auto-replied keyword:
3780
3781 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3782 message by an automatic process,
3783
3784 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3785
3786 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3787 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3788
3789 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3790 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3791 other messages.
3792
3e46c1aa
PH
3793PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3794 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3795
49826d12
PH
3796PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3797
eba0c039
PH
3798PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3799 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3800 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3801
a0d6ba8a
PH
3802PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3803 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3804 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3805
f0917727
PH
3806PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3807 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3808 and treats the condition as false.
3809
096fee00
PH
3810PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3811
024bd3c2
PH
3812PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3813 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3814 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3815 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3816 not changing the active code.
3817
3818 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3819 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3820
3821 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3822 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3823
df199fec
PH
3824PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3825 (Bugzilla #53).
3826
d27f1df3
PH
3827PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3828 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3829 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3830 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3831 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3832 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3833 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3834 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3835 the text comparison.
3836
96776534
PH
3837PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3838 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3839 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3840 The same fix has been applied.
3841
5de37277 3842
9a799bc0
PH
3843Exim version 4.54
3844-----------------
3845
3846PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3847 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3848 It now does.
3849
99a4b039
PH
3850PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3851 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3852
3853PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3854
4b233853
PH
3855PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3856 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3857 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3858 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3859 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3860
8857ccfd
PH
3861TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3862 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3863 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3864 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3865 or /domain=).
3866
433a2980
PH
3867PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3868 testing suite.
3869
3e46c1aa 3870
9a799bc0 3871
e3a311ba
TK
3872Exim version 4.53
3873-----------------
3874
3875TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3876 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3877
13b685f9
PH
3878PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3879
395ff96d
PH
3880PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3881
5b68f6e4
PH
3882PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3883 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3884 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3885
1ab52c69
PH
3886PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3887 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3888 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3889
b07e6aa3
PH
3890PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3891 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3892 operating systems.
3893
254e032f
PH
3894PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3895 ${stat: expansion item.
3896
3af76a81
PH
3897PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3898 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3899
2548ba04
PH
3900PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3901 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3902 file for comments.
3903
b6c6011d
PH
3904PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3905
cf39cf57
PH
3906PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3907 setting.
3908
f1513293
PH
3909PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3910 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3911
727549a4
PH
3912TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3913
af46795e
PH
3914PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3915 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3916 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3917 the end of the subprocess.
3918
d7b47fd0
PH
3919PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3920 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3921 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3922 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3923 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3924
ee744174
JJ
3925JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3926
b582ab87
PH
3927TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3928
41a13e0a
PH
3929PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3930 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3931
f625cc5a
PH
3932PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3933
3934PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3935
21f7af35
PH
3936PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3937 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3938 HP-UX compiler.
3939
31480e42
PH
3940PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3941
2d280592
PH
3942PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3943 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3944 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3945
7cd1141b
PH
3946PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3947 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3948
3949PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3950 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3951
750af86e
PH
3952PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3953 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3954
3955 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3956 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3957
3958 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3959 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3960 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3961 contributed by a Radius user.
3962
3963PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3964 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3965
4304270b
TK
3966TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3967 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3968
750af86e
PH
3969PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3970 available.
3971
64ffc24f
PH
3972PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3973 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3974 received.
3975
5dd9625b
PH
3976PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3977 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3978 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3979 header lines when this was not necessary.
3980
5591031b
PH
3981PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3982
ba18e66a
PH
3983PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3984 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3985 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3986 exists".
3987
9cec981f
PH
3988PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3989 -bV or -d is used.
3990
aa2b5c79
PH
3991PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3992 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3993 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3994 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3995
48a53b7f
PH
3996PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3997
1c59d63b
PH
3998PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3999
671012da
TK
4000TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4001
1509d3a8
PH
4002PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4003
4004PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4005 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4006 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4007 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4008 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4009 settings.
4010
4011PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4012
2fe1a124
PH
4013PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4014 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4015 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4016 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4017 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4018 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4019 which is clearly wrong.
4020
8800895a
PH
4021PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4022
ccfdb010
PH
4023PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4024 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4025 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4026 subsequently added.
4027
1130bfb0
PH
4028PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4029 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4030
ebcb507f
PH
4031PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4032
c35e155c
PH
4033PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4034 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4035
95d1f782
PH
4036PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4037 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4038
fd6de02e
PH
4039PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4040 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4041
58de37c5
PH
4042PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4043 recipients, not senders.
4044
261cf466
TF
4045TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4046 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4047
3ee512ff
PH
4048PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4049
e08c430f
PH
4050PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4051
bef5a11f
PH
4052PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4053 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4054 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4055 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4056
7546de58
TF
4057TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4058
e5d5a95f
TF
4059TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4060 clock is set back in time.
4061
2e88a017
TF
4062TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4063 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4064
a5f65aa4
TF
4065TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4066 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4067
e7726cbf
PH
4068PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4069 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4070 (see PH/47 above).
4071
a7fdad5b
TF
4072TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4073 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4074 header rewrites.
4075
6af56900
PH
4076PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4077 type ("H").
4078
0925ede6
PH
4079PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4080
66afa403
TF
4081TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4082 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4083 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4084
0154e85a
TF
4085TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4086 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4087 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4088 helo verification defer as a failure.
4089
16f12c76
PH
4090PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4091 actual error message.
4092
bbe902f0 4093
e5a9dba6
PH
4094Exim version 4.52
4095-----------------
4096
4097TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4098
22c3b60b
PH
4099PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4100 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4101 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4102 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4103
06a9b4b5
PH
4104TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4105
c1ac6996
PH
4106PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4107 can still be requested.
4108
9c7a242c
PH
4109PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4110 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4111 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4112 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4113
87ba3f5f
PH
4114TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4115 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4116 circumstances, but probably never did.
4117
4118PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4119 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4120 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4121 in the header line.
4122
29aba418
TF
4123TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4124
fe0dab11
TF
4125TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4126 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4127
11d337a4
TK
4128TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4129
4130TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4131
415c8f3b
PH
4132PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4133 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4134 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4135 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4136 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4137 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4138
958541e9
PH
4139PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4140 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4141 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4142 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4143 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4144 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4145
c206415f
TK
4146TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4147 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4148
2a4be8f9
PH
4149PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4150 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4151
1cba11c5
SC
4152SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4153 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4154
4c04137d 4155SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4156
4157SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4158
4159SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4160
4161SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4162
4163SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4164
4165SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4166
1005d00e
TK
4167TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4168
4169TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4170 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4171 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4172
4173TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4174 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4175 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4176 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4177
9b4768fa
PH
4178PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4179 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4180 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4181
4182PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4183 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4184 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4185 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4186
0d7eb84a
PH
4187PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4188 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4189 to be made).
4190
4191PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4192 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4193 should work with maildirs and everything.
4194
40727bee
TK
4195TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4196 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4197
554d2369
TF
4198TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4199 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4200
1f922db1
PH
4201PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4202 function for BDB 4.3.
4203
ef213c3b
PH
4204PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4205
8ac170f3
PH
4206PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4207 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4208 involved.
4209
b1c749bb
PH
4210PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4211 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4212 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4213 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4214 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4215 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4216
4aac9b49
PH
4217PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4218 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4219 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4220 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4221 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4222 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4223 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4224 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4225
294520c8
TK
4226TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4227 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4228 details.
4229
5bd022fe
PH
4230PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4231 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4232
90e9ce59
PH
4233PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4234 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4235 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4236 test. It is now used for both.
4237
5ea81592
PH
4238PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4239 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4240 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4241 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4242 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4243 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4244
c6c2dc1d
PH
4245PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4246 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4247 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4248 string_vformat().
4249
fffffe4c
PH
4250PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4251 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4252 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4253
9a26b6b2
PH
4254PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4255 experimental DomainKeys support:
4256
4257 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4258 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4259 the control was given.
4260
4261 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4262
4aee0225
PH
4263PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4264
32d668a5
PH
4265PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4266
8187c3f3
PH
4267PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4268 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4269 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4270 db.h files).
4271
ff790e47 4272PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4273 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4274 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4275 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4276 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4277 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4278 course.
ff790e47 4279
5417f6d1
PH
4280PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4281 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4282 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4283 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4284 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4285 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4286
59cf8544
PH
4287PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4288 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4289 do -d+all out of habit.
4290
e7ad8a65
PH
4291PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4292 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4293 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4294
ade42478
PH
4295PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4296 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4297 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4298 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4299 record types that Exim uses.
4300
182ad5cf
PH
4301PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4302 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4303 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4304 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4305 non-existent file that was broken.
4306
b0d9fc80
TK
4307TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4308 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4309
4310TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4311 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4312 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4313
4314TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4315
47c7a64a
PH
4316PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4317 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4318 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4319 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4320 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4321 same time.
4322
a388bce4
SC
4323SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4324 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4325 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4326 at a slight CPU cost.
4327
4328SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4329 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4330
4331SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4332 by Marc Sherman.
4333
0793e4ed
SC
4334SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4335
c58b88df
PH
4336PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4337 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4338
e7ad8a65 4339
7982096b
PH
4340Exim version 4.51
4341-----------------
4342
1a46a8c5
PH
4343TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4344 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4345
2f079f46 4346TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4347
4348TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4349
4350PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4351 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4352
4353PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4354 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4355 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4356 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4357 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4358 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4359 file.
4360
4361PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4362 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4363 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4364 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4365 these two options.
4366
4367PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4368 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4369 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4370 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4371 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4372 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4373 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4374 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4375
4376PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4377 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4378
4379PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4380 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4381 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4382 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4383 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4384 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4385
4386PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4387 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4388 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4389 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4390
4391PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4392 Finch).
4393
4394PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4395 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4396
49c2d5ea
PH
4397PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4398 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4399 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4400 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4401 message.
49c2d5ea 4402
bf759a8b
PH
4403PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4404
83364d30
PH
4405PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4406 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4407
7999bbd7
PH
4408PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4409 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4410 to what was transported.)
4411
7dbf77c9
PH
4412TF/01 Added $received_time.
4413
74e0617f
PH
4414PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4415 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4416 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4417 spamd_address settings.
4418
2f079f46
PH
4419PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4420 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4421 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4422 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4423 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4424
8c841523
PH
4425PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4426
7766a4f0
PH
4427PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4428 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4429 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4430 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4431 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4432
8b417f2c
PH
4433PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4434 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4435
901f42cb
PH
4436PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4437 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4438 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4439 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4440 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4441 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4442 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4443 for failure.
4444
f9b9210e
PH
4445PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4446 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4447 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4448 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4449 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4450 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4451 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4452 "input=".
4453
54cdb463
PH
4454PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4455
cf00dad6
PH
4456PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4457 driver and ACL definitions.
4458
acb1b346
PH
4459PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4460 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4461
c5ddb310
PH
4462PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4463 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4464 understands it better than I do:
4465
4466 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4467 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4468
4469 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4470 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4471 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4472 => three warnings about OTP not working
4473 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4474
4475 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4476 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4477 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4478 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4479 for each call.)
4480 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4481 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4482
4483 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4484 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4485 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4486
31619da6
PH
4487PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4488 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4489 specified.
4490
bebaf0fc
PH
4491PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4492 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4493 "Linux".
4494
475fe28a
PH
4495PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4496 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4497 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4498
4499 warn !verify = sender
4500 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4501
4502 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4503 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4504
7e8bec7a
PH
4505PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4506
4507 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4508 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4509
4510 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4511 nomenclature these days.)
4512
e4a89c47
PH
4513PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4514 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4515
5ca2a9a1
PH
4516PH/30 In these circumstances:
4517 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4518 . First host does not offer TLS;
4519 . First host accepts first address;
4520 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4521 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4522 . Second host accepts second address.
4523 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4524 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4525 address.
7e8bec7a 4526
c688b954
PH
4527PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4528 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4529 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4530 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4531 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4532
fed77020
PH
4533PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4534 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4535
7fe1560f
PH
4536PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4537 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4538
ebb6e6d5
PH
4539PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4540 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4541 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4542
9c4e8f60
PH
4543PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4544 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4545 overlooked.
4546
4547PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4548
d7174846
PH
4549PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4550 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4551 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4552 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4553 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4554 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4555 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4556
4557 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4558 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4559 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4560 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4561 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4562
4563 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4564 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4565 routed further.
4566
cfe75fc3
PH
4567PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4568 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4569 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4570 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4571 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4572 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4573
be22d70e
PH
4574PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4575
0612b098
PH
4576PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4577 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4578 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4579 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4580 printable escape sequences.
4581
2e0c1448
PH
4582PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4583 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4584 body only.
4585
447d236c
PH
4586PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4587 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4588 are as follows:
4589
4590 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4591 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4592 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4593 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4594 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4595
4596 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4597 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4598 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4599
d20976dc
PH
4600PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4601
f656d135
PH
4602PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4603 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4604 play with."
4605
2e2a30b4
PH
4606PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4607 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4608 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4609 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4610 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4611 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4612 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4613 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4614 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4615 the log output.
4616
9176e9f0
PH
4617PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4618 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4619 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4620 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4621 "make".
4622
7982096b 4623
bbe902f0
PH
4624A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4625----------------------------------------
4626
4627Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4628changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4629needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4630in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4631that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4632release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4633from 4.43.
4634
4635I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
46364.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4637those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4638historical information.
4639
4640
f7b63901 4641Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4642-----------------
4643
5fe762f6
PH
4644 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4645
139059f6 4646 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4647 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4648
7086e875
PH
4649 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4650 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4651 place.
4652
35af9f61
PH
4653 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4654 filter fails to execute.
4655
b668c215
PH
4656 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4657 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4658 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4659 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4660 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4661
a494b1e1
PH
4662 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4663
4664 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4665 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4666 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4667 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4668
c5fcb476
PH
4669 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4670 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4671 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4672 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4673 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4674
69358f02
PH
4675 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4676
5be20824
PH
467710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4678
eb2c0248
PH
467911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4680 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4681 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4682 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4683
2a3eea10
PH
468412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4685 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4686 sender verification.
4687
468813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4689 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4690
23c7ff99
PH
469114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4692
4deaf07d
PH
469315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4694 connection timeout.
4695
926e1192
PH
469616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4697 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4698
650edc6f
PH
469917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4700 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4701
2c7db3f5
PH
470218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4703 information about exactly what failed.
4704
3d235903
PH
470519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4706
7c7ad977
PH
470720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4708 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4709 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4710
981756db
PH
471121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4712 It is now set to "smtps".
4713
d4eb88df
PH
471422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4715 ignore_target_hosts.
4716
471723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4718 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4719 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4720 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4721 "[x.x.x.x]".
4722
7d468ab8
PH
472324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4724 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4725 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4726
472725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4728 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4729 wake it up if nothing else does.
4730
62c0818f
PH
473126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4732 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4733 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4734 end up negative.
4735
26034054
PH
473627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4737 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4738
af66f652
PH
473928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4740
90af77f4
PH
474129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4742 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4743 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4744 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4745 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4746 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4747 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4748 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4749
d8ef3577
PH
475030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4751 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4752 than one IP address.
4753
5cb8cbc6
PH
475431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4755 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4756 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4757 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4758
14702f5b
PH
475932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4760 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4761 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4762 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4763 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4764 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4765
063b1e99
PH
476633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4767 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4768 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4769 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4770
652e1b65
PH
477134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4772 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4773 respected.
4774
6f0c9a4f
PH
477535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4776 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4777 $sender_host_address.
4778
33397d19
PH
477936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4780 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4781 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4782 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4783 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4784 very small.
4785
7bb56e1f
PH
478637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4787
4788 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4789 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4790
ea3bc19b
PH
4791 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4792 just the host names, not the priorities.
4793
4794 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4795 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4796 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4797
ea3bc19b 4798 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4799 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4800
0bcb2a0e
PH
480138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4802 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4803 domain.
4804
2ac0e484
PH
480539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4806
4e1fde53
PH
480740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4808 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4809
de365ded
PH
481041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4811 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4812 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4813
f05da2e8
PH
481442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4815
d6453af2
PH
481643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4817
f7b63901
PH
481844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4819
482045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4821 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4822 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4823 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4824 because the tests only now provoked it.
4825
a444213a
PH
482646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4827 (this can affect the format of dates).
4828
0ec020ea
PH
482947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4830 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4831 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4832 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4833
b1206957
PH
483448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4835
483649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4837 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4838 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4839 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4840
26dd5a95
PH
484150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4842 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4843 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4844
343b2385
PH
484551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4846 autoreply.
4847
1c5466b9
PH
484852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4849 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4850 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4851 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4852 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4853 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4854 is going on).
4855
55ee9ee3
PH
485653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4857 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4858 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4859 the line.
4860
d38f8232
PH
486154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4862 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4863 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4864
4865 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4866 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4867 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4868 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4869 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4870 so I produce this patch..."
4871
3295e65b
PH
4872 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4873 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4874 is not defined.
4875
7102e136
PH
487655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4877 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4878 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4879 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4880 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4881
3ca0ba97
PH
488256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4883
c2bcbe20
PH
488457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4885 long debug lines gets shown.
4886
18ce445d
PH
488758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4888 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4889
1f5b4c3d
PH
489059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4891
4892 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4893 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4894 of $primary_hostname.
4895
b975ba52
PH
489660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4897 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4898 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4899 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4900 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4901 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4902 by change 4.50/55 above.
4903
4904 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4905 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4906 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4907 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4908 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4909 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4910 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4911
491261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4913 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4914 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4915 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4916
17ffcae7
PH
491762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4918 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4919
d95f9fdb
PH
492063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4921 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4922 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4923 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4924 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4925
86b8287f
PH
492664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4927 This has been fixed.
4928
60dc5e56
PH
492965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4930 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4931 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4932 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4933 the caching.)
4934
533244af
PH
493566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4936
a5a28604
PH
493767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4938 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4939 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4940 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4941
7e634d24
PH
494268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4943 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4944
3e11c26b
PH
494569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4946 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4947 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4948
6729cf78
PH
494970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4950 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4951 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4952 message there.
4953
00f00ca5
PH
495471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4955 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4956 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4957
c9bdd01c
PH
495872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4959 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4960 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4961 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4962
d43194df
PH
496373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4964 during host lookups.
4965
fe5b5d0b
PH
496674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4967 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4968
4969 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4970
76a2d7ba
PH
497175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4972 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4973 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4974 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4975 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4976 background.
4977
497876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4979 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4980
04f7d5b9
PH
498177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4982 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4983 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4984
bc60667e
PH
498578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4986
bb6e88ff
PH
498779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4988 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4989 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4990 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4991 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4992 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4993 process earlier.
4994
1e70f85b
PH
499580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4996 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4997 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4998 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4999 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5000
500181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5002 tables).
5003
4e01f9d6
PH
500482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5005
1ee1cef2
PH
500683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5007 "vacation" handling.
5008
6e2b4ccc
PH
500984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5010 OS variants using glibc.
5011
8e669ac1
PH
501285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5013
495ae4b0 5014
bbe902f0
PH
5015----------------------------------------------------
5016See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5017----------------------------------------------------
5018
5019
5020Exim version 4.44
5021-----------------
5022
5023 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5024 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5025 transport
5026
5027 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5028 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5029 place.
5030
5031 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5032 filter fails to execute.
5033
5034 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5035 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5036 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5037 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5038 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5039
5040 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5041 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5042 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5043 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5044
5045 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5046 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5047 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5048 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5049 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5050
5051 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5052
5053 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5054 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5055 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5056 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5057
5058 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5059 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5060 sender verification.
5061
506210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5063 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5064
506511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5066 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5067
506812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5069 ignore_target_hosts.
5070
507113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5072 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5073 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5074 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5075 "[x.x.x.x]".
5076
507714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5078 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5079 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5080
508115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5082 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5083 wake it up if nothing else does.
5084
508516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5086 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5087 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5088 end up negative.
5089
509017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5091 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5092
ea3a6f44 509318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5094
509519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5096 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5097 empty pattern.
5098
509920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5100 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5101 one IP address.
5102
ea3a6f44
NM
510321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5104 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5105 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5106 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5107 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5108 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5109
ea3a6f44
NM
511022. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5111 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5112 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5113
511423. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5115 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5116 $sender_host_address.
5117
511824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5119
ea3a6f44
NM
512025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5121 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5122 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5123
512426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5125 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5126
ea3a6f44
NM
512727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5128 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5129
ea3a6f44
NM
513028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5131 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5132 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5133 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5134
513529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5136 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5137 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5138
ea3a6f44
NM
513930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5140 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5141 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5142 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5143
ea3a6f44
NM
514431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5145 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5146 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5147
ea3a6f44
NM
514831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5149 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5150
ea3a6f44
NM
515132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5152 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5153 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5154 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5155 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5156 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5157 is going on).
bbe902f0 5158
ea3a6f44
NM
515933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5160 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5161 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5162 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5163 CAN-2005-0021
5164
ea3a6f44
NM
516534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5166 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5167 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5168 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5169 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5170 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5171 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5172
5173 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5174 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5175 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5176 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5177 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5178 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5179 CAN-2005-0021
5180
ea3a6f44
NM
518135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5182 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5183 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5184 CAN-2005-0022
5185
ea3a6f44
NM
518636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5187 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5188 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5189 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5190 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5191
ea3a6f44
NM
519237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5193 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5194 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5195 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5196 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5197
ea3a6f44
NM
519838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5199 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5200 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5201 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5202 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5203
5204
495ae4b0
PH
5205Exim version 4.43
5206-----------------
5207
5208 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5209 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5210 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5211 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5212 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5213 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5214 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5215
5216 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5217 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5218 the delivery.
5219
5220 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5221
5222 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5223
5224 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5225 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5226 to local_scan().
5227
5228 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5229 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5230 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5231 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5232 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5233
5234 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5235 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5236
5237 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5238
5239 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5240
524110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5242 header_sender only.
5243
524411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5245 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5246
524712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5248 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5249 affecting debugging statements).
5250
525113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5252
525314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5254 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5255 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5256 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5257 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5258 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5259 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5260 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5261 after the received time, and all would be well.
5262
526315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5264 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5265 condition in an expansion string.
5266
526716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5268
526917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5270 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5271 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5272 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5273 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5274 job under whatever limits there are.
5275
527618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5277
527819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5279 space).
5280
528120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5282 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5283 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5284 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5285 return path is set.
5286
528721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5288 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5289 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5290 binary data in such strings.
5291
529222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5293
529423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5295 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5296 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5297 failure, which is pointless.
5298
529924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5300
530125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5302
530326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5304 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5305 Sender: header lines.
5306
530727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5308 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5309 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5310
531128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5312 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5313 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5314 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5315 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5316 happens.
5317
531829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5319 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5320 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5321 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5322 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5323
532430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5325 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5326 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5327 1024.
5328
532931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5330 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5331
533232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5333 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5334
533533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5336
533732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5338
533933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5340
534134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5342 syntax error.
5343
534435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5345
534636. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5347
534837. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5349 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5350 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5351 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5352
535338. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5354 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5355
5356
5357Exim version 4.42
5358-----------------
5359
5360 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5361 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5362 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5363 it was not quoted.
5364 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5365 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5366 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5367 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5368 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5369 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5370
5371 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5372 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5373 verification failure".
5374
5375 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5376 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5377 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5378 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5379
5380 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5381 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5382 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5383 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5384 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5385 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5386 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5387 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5388 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5389 treated as a timeout.
5390
5391 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5392 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5393 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5394 not set for Exim filters).
5395
5396 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5397 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5398 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5399
5400 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5401
5402 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5403 try to make them clearer.
5404
5405 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5406 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5407
5408 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5409
5410 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5411
541210. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5413 only the Cygwin environment.
5414
541511. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5416 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5417 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5418 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5419 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5420
542112. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5422 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5423 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5424 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5425 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5426 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5427 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5428
542913. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5430 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5431
543214. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5433
5434 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5435 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5436 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5437
5438 To: susanne@some.where
5439
5440 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5441 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5442 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5443 of addresses in From: header lines).
5444
5445 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5446 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5447 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5448
5449 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5450 treated as non-personal.
5451
5452 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5453 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5454
545515. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5456
545716. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5458
545917. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5460 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5461 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5462
546318. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5464 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5465
546619. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5467 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5468 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5469 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5470 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5471 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5472
547320. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5474 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5475 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5476 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5477 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5478 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5479 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5480 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5481
5482 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5483
548421. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5485 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5486
548722. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5488 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5489 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5490
549123. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5492 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5493
549424. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5495 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5496 rather than long int.
5497
549825. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5499
550026. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5501
5502
5503Exim version 4.41
5504-----------------
5505
5506 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5507 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5508 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5509 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5510 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5511 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5512
5513
5514Exim version 4.40
5515-----------------
5516
5517 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5518 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5519
5520 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5521 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5522 socklen_t is defined.
5523
5524 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5525 always exist.
5526
5527 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5528 configured.
5529
5530 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5531 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5532 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5533 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5534 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5535
5536 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5537 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5538 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5539 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5540
5541 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5542 of flapping under certain conditions.
5543
5544 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5545 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5546 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5547
5548 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5549
555010. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5551
555211. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5553 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5554 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5555 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5556
555712. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5558 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5559 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5560 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5561 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5562 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5563 preserved with the message after it was received.
5564
556513. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5566 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5567 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5568 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5569 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5570 test suite worked just fine.
5571
557214. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5573 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5574 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5575
557615. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5577 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5578 string.
5579
558016. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5581 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5582 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5583 does not fully solve it.
5584
558517. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5586 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5587 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5588 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5589 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5590
559118. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5592 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5593 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5594
559519. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5596 string, for example:
5597
5598 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5599
5600 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5601 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5602 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5603 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5604 the routers could not see them.
5605
560620. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5607 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5608
560921. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5610 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5611 output).
5612
561322. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5614 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5615 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5616 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5617 that needed quoting.
5618
561923. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5620 was not being matched caselessly.
5621
562224. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5623 backslashes.
5624
562525. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5626 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5627 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5628 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5629 when use_sender is false.
5630
563126. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5632
563327. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5634
563528. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5636
563729. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5638 the configuration file.
5639
564030. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5641 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5642
564331. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5644
564532. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5646 bytes in the message body.
5647
564833. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5649 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5650 delivery.
5651
565234. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5653
565435. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5655
565636. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5657 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5658 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5659 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5660 another IP address.
5661
5662
5663Exim version 4.34
5664-----------------
5665
5666 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5667 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5668
5669 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5670 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5671 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5672 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5673 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5674
5675 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5676 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5677
5678 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5679 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5680 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5681
5682 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5683 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5684 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5685
5686 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5687 for routers.
5688
5689 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5690 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5691 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5692 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5693 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5694 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5695 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5696
5697
5698Exim version 4.33
5699-----------------
5700
5701 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5702 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5703 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5704 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5705 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5706 default (and expected) setting.
5707
5708 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5709 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5710 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5711 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5712
5713 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5714 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5715
5716 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5717 in domain lists.
5718
5719 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5720 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5721 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5722 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5723 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5724 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5725
5726 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5727 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5728 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5729
5730 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5731 part (NOT match_host).
5732
5733 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5734
5735 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5736 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5737 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5738 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5739 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5740 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5741 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5742 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5743 the same named file.
5744
574510. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5746 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5747 when Exim is built.
5748
574911. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5750 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5751 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5752 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5753 a host name.
5754
575512. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5756 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5757 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5758
575913. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5760
576114. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5762
576315. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5764
576516. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5766 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5767
576817. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5769 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5770 before starting the TLS session.
5771
577218. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5773
577419. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5775 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5776
577720. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5778 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5779 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5780 colon in the middle).
5781
5782
5783Exim version 4.32
5784-----------------
5785
5786 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5787 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5788 multiple configurations are in use.
5789
5790 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5791 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5792 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5793 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5794 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5795 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5796
5797 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5798 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5799
5800 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5801 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5802 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5803
5804 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5805 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5806 occurs.
5807
5808 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5809 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5810
5811 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5812
5813 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5814 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5815
5816 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5817
5818 -prval:sval
5819
5820 is equivalent to
5821
5822 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5823
5824 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5825 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5826 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5827 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5828 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5829
583010. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5831 Exim's behaviour:
5832
5833 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5834 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5835 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5836 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5837 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5838 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5839
5840 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5841 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5842 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5843 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5844 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5845 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5846 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5847 string.
5848
5849 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5850 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5851 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5852 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5853 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5854
585511. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5856
585712. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5858 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5859 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5860
586113. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5862
586314. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5864 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5865 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5866 information.
5867
586815. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5869 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5870
587116. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5872 Three changes have been made:
5873
5874 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5875 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5876 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5877 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5878 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5879
5880 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5881 been restored.
5882
5883 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5884 the modified behaviour.
5885
5886
5887Exim version 4.31
5888-----------------
5889
5890 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5891 Larry Rosenman.
5892
5893 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5894 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5895
5896 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5897 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5898 try to track down a specific problem.
5899
5900 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5901 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5902 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5903
5904 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5905 warning.
5906
5907 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5908 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5909 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5910 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5911 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5912 some earlier ones do not.
5913
5914 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5915
5916 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5917 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5918 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5919 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5920 address literals are enabled, of course).
5921
5922 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5923
592410. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5925 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5926 by a command such as
5927
5928 exim -f "" ...
5929
5930 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5931
593211. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5933
593412. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5935 remained set. It is now erased.
5936
593713. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5938 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5939
594014. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5941 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5942 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5943 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5944 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5945 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5946 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5947 appropriate error code.
5948
594915. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5950 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5951 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5952 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5953 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5954 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5955
595616. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5957 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5958 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5959
596017. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5961 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5962 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5963 terminate the header.
5964
596518. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5966 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5967 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5968
596919. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5970 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5971 (4.30/29). In particular:
5972
5973 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5974 imposed.
5975
5976 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5977 to write a maildirsize file.
5978
5979 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5980 the transport, the new value overrides.
5981
5982 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5983 count.
5984
598520. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5986 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5987 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5988 space or a tab.
5989
599021. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5991 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5992 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5993 the fallback hosts.
5994
599522. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5996 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5997 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5998
599923. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6000 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6001 using a union.
6002
600324. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6004 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6005 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6006
600725. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6008
600926. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6010
601127. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6012
601328. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6014 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6015 become corrupted.
6016
601729. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6018 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6019 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6020 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6021 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6022 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6023 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6024 too great.
6025
602630. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6027 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6028 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6029 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6030 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6031 incorrectly.
6032
603331. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6034 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6035 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6036 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6037 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6038 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6039 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6040 cached value only when the same options are set.
6041
604232. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6043
604433. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6045 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6046 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6047 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6048 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6049
605034: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6051 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6052 it is clearly obsolete.
6053
605435. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6055 transport.
6056
605736. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6058 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6059 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6060 times.
6061
606237. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6063 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6064 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6065 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6066 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6067
606838. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6069 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6070 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6071 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6072
607339. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6074
6075 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6076
6077 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6078 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6079 2^31.
6080
608140. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6082 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6083 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6084 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6085 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6086 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6087 $localpart_data.
6088
608941. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6090 with the -f command-line option.
6091
609242. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6093 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6094 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6095 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6096 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6097 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6098
609943. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6100 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6101 line.
6102
610344. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6104 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6105 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6106 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6107 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6108 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6109 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6110 buffer is too small.
6111
611245. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6113 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6114
611546. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6116 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6117 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6118 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6119 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6120 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6121 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6122 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6123 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6124
612547. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6126 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6127 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6128
612948. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6130 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6131 ACL").
6132
613349. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6134 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6135 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6136 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6137 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6138
613950. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6140 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6141 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6142 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6143 is set.
6144
614551. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6146
614752. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6148
614953. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6150 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6151
615254. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6153 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6154 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6155
615655. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6157 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6158 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6159 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6160 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6161
616256. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6163 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6164 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6165 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6166 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6167 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6168 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6169
617057. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6171 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6172 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6173 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6174 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6175 the test of how many are available.
6176
617758. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6178 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6179 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6180 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6181 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6182 new message is started.
6183
618459. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6185 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6186
618760. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6188 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6189
619061. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6191 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6192 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6193 is no long logged.
6194
619562. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6196 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6197 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6198 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6199 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6200 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6201 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6202
620363. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6204 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6205 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6206 interpreted as octal.
6207
620864. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6209 setting.
6210
621165. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6212 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6213 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6214 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6215 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6216 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6217
621866. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6219 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6220 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6221 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6222
6223 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6224 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6225 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6226 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6227
6228 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6229 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6230 is a bug fix.
6231
6232 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6233 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6234
623567. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6236
623768. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6238 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6239 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6240 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6241
624269. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6243 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6244 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6245 supplied", which is not helpful.
6246
624770. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6248 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6249 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6250
625171. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6252 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6253 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6254 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6255 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6256 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6257 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6258 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6259
626072. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6261 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6262 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6263 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6264 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6265
626673. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6267 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6268 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6269 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6270 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6271 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6272
627374. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6274 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6275 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6276
627775. Added write_rejectlog option.
6278
627976. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6280 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6281 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6282 variables.
6283
628477. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6285
628678. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6287 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6288 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6289 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6290 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6291 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6292 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6293 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6294
629579. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6296 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6297 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6298 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6299 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6300
630180. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6302 Haardt.
6303
630481. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6305 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6306 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6307 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6308 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6309 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6310 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6311 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6312 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6313
6314
6315Exim version 4.30
6316-----------------
6317
6318 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6319 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6320 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6321
6322 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6323 fixed.
6324
6325 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6326 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6327 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6328
6329 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6330 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6331 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6332 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6333 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6334 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6335
6336 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6337 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6338 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6339 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6340 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6341 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6342 the Exim test suite.
6343
6344 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6345 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6346 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6347 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6348
6349 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6350 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6351 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6352 specify it in this variable.
6353
6354 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6355 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6356 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6357 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6358
6359 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6360 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6361 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6362 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6363
6364 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6365 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6366 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6367 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6368 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6369
6370 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6371
637210. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6373 they are logged.
6374
637511. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6376 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6377 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6378 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6379 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6380
638112. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6382 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6383
638413. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6385 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6386 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6387 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6388 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6389
639014. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6391 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6392
639315. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6394 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6395 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6396
639716. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6398 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6399
640017. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6401 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6402
640318. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6404 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6405 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6406
640719. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6408 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6409
641020. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6411 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6412 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6413 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6414
641521. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6416
641722. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6418 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6419 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6420 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6421
642223. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6423
642424. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6425 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6426
642725. Added .include_if_exists.
6428
642926. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6430 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6431 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6432 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6433 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6434 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6435
643627. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6437
643828. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6439 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6440 this.
6441
644229. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6443
644430. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6445 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6446
6447 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6448 550 Sender verify failed
6449
6450 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6451 the final line of the response.
6452
645331. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6454 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6455 all other user lookups.
6456
645732. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6458 delivery time.
6459
646033. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6461 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6462 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6463 result into an int without checking.
6464
646534. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6466 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6467 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6468
646935. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6470 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6471 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6472 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6473
647436. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6475 correctly.
6476
647737. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6478 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6479
648038. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6481 to the empty sender.
6482
648339. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6484 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6485 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6486 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6487 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6488 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6489 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6490 panic log.
6491
649240. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6493 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6494 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6495 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6496 used.
6497
649841. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6499 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6500
650142. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6502 timestamps.
6503
650443. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6505 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6506
650744. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6508
650945. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6510 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6511 logs.
6512
651346. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6514 as soon as it is encountered.
6515
651647. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6517
651848. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6519 rewritten to "<>".
6520
652149. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6522 recognizes a tab character.
6523
652450. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6525 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6526 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6527 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6528
652951. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6530
653152. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6532 crash.
6533
653453. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6535
653654. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6537
653855. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6539 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6540 2822.
6541
654256. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6543 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6544 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6545 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6546 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6547
654857. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6549 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6550
655158. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6552 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6553 list (.included file names were always shown).
6554
655559. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6556 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6557 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6558 root at that time.
6559
656060. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6561 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6562
656361. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6564
656562. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6566
656763. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6568
656964. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6570 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6571 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6572 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6573 failures to open the logs.
6574
657565. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6576 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6577 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6578 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6579 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6580 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6581 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6582
6583
6584Exim version 4.24
6585-----------------
6586
6587 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6588 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6589 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6590 change 4.23/1.
6591
6592 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6593 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6594 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6595
6596 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6597 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6598 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6599
6600 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6601 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6602 causing some misleading effects.
6603
6604 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6605 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6606 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6607
6608 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6609 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6610 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6611 queue-runner function directly.
6612
6613
6614Exim version 4.23
6615-----------------
6616
6617 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6618 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6619
6620 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6621 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6622 was always written to the default place.
6623
6624 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6625 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6626 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6627
6628 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6629
6630 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6631
6632 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6633 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6634 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6635
6636 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6637 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6638 must start.
6639
6640 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6641 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6642 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6643
6644 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6645 command line option is disabled.
6646
6647 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6648 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6649
6650 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6651
6652 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6653
6654 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6655 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6656
665710. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6658
665911. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6660 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6661 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6662 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6663 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6664 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6665
666612. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6667 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6668 timeout.
6669
667013. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6671 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6672
667314. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6674 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6675
667615. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6677 received was valid base64.
6678
667916. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6680 name of the variable that was being set.
6681
668217. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6683
668418. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6685 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6686 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6687 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6688 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6689 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6690
669119. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6692
669320. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6694 nor realm was specified.
6695
669621. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6697 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6698 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6699 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6700
670122. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6702 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6703 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6704
670523. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6706 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6707 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6708
670924. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6710 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6711 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6712 some systems use these upper case variants.
6713
671425. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6715 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6716 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6717 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6718
671926. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6720
672127. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6722 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6723
672428. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6725 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6726 expansion variable.
6727
672829. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6729
673030. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6731 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6732 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6733 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6734
673531. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6736 using it.
6737
673832. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6739 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6740 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6741
674233. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6743 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6744
674534. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6746 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6747 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6748 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6749
675035. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6751 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6752 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6753
675436. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6755
675637. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6757 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6758 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6759 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6760 aborted.
6761
676238. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6763 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6764 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6765
676639. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6767
676840. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6769 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6770
677141. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6772 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6773
677442. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6775 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6776 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6777 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6778 when emails are that large.
6779
6780
6781
6782Exim version 4.22
6783-----------------
6784
6785 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6786 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6787
6788 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6789 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6790 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6791
6792 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6793 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6794 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6795
6796 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6797 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6798 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6799 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6800 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6801
6802 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6803 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6804 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6805 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6806 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6807 ever.
6808
6809 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6810 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6811 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6812 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6813 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6814 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6815 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6816 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6817 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6818 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6819 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6820 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6821 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6822 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6823
6824 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6825 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6826 parameterised it.
6827
6828 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6829 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6830 error should be diagnosed.
6831
6832 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6833 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6834 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6835 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6836 appeared instead of "NULL".
6837
683810. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6839 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6840 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6841 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6842 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6843 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6844 proceeds).
6845
6846 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6847 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6848 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6849
6850
6851Exim version 4.21
6852-----------------
6853
6854 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6855 or receiver verification errors.
6856
6857 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6858 name.
6859
6860 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6861 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6862 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6863 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6864
6865 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6866 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6867 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6868 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6869 shouldn't happen again.
6870
6871 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6872 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6873 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6874
6875 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6876 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6877
6878 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6879
6880 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6881 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6882
6883 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6884 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6885 RFC.
6886
688710. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6888 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6889 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6890
689111. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6892 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6893 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6894 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6895
689612. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6897 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6898 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6899 to define what should happen).
6900
690113. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6902 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6903 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6904
690514. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6906
690715. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6908
690916. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6910 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6911
4c04137d 691217. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6913 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6914 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6915 structure in all cases.
6916
6917 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6918 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6919 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6920 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6921
692218. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6923 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6924 domain name.
6925
692619. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6927 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6928
692920. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6930 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6931
693221. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6933 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6934 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6935
693622. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6937 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6938 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6939
694023. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6941 the book and for uniformity.
6942
694324. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6944
694525. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6946 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6947 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6948 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6949 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6950 non-existent command as the problem.
6951
695226. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6953 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6954 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6955
695627. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6957
695828. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6959 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6960 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6961
696229. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6963 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6964 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6965 timestamps using strftime().
6966
696730. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6968 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6969
697032. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6971 transport-time rewrites.
6972
697333. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6974 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6975 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6976 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6977
697834. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6979 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6980
698135. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6982 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6983 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6984 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6985 comma and a space.
6986
698736. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6988 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6989 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6990 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6991 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6992 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6993 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6994
699537. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6996 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6997 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6998 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6999 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7000
700138. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7002 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7003 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7004 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7005 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7006 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7007 remaining text gets split now.
7008
700939. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7010 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7011 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7012 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7013
701440. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7015 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7016 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7017 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7018 $return_path.
7019
702041. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7021 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7022 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7023 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7024 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7025 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7026 passed through if needed.
7027
702842. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7029 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7030 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7031 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7032 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7033 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7034
703543. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7036 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7037 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7038 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7039 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7040
704144. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7042 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7043 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7044 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7045 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7046
704745. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7048 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7049 noticed.
7050
705146. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7052 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7053 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7054 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7055 mayhem of various kinds.
7056
705747. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7058 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7059 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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7060 the right test for positive values.
7061
706248. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7063 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7064 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7065 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7066 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7067 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7068 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7069 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7070 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7071 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7072 envelope.
7073
707449. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7075 module.
7076
707750. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7078 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7079 forbidding it.
7080
708151. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7082 the existing equality matching.
7083
708452. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7085 dealing with inode numbers.
7086
708753. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7088 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7089 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7090
709154. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7092 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7093 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7094 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7095 local_scan().
7096
709755. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7098 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7099 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7100 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7101 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7102 relay addresses has also been removed.
7103
710456. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7105
710657. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7107 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7108 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7109
711058. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7111 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7112 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7113 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7114 processing applies to CR:
7115
7116 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7117 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7118
7119 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7120 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7121 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7122 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7123
712459. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7125 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7126 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7127
712860. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7129 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7130 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7131 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7132 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7133 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7134 arisen.
7135
713661. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7137 program routers.
7138
713962. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7140 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7141 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7142 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7143 adds:
7144
7145 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7146
7147 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7148
7149 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7150
715163. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7152 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7153 not considered personal.
7154
715564. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7156
715765. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7158
715966. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7160
716167. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7162 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7163 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7164 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7165 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7166 header lines, and spool format errors.
7167
716868. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7169 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7170 for more flexibility.
7171
717269. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7173 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7174 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7175
717670. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7177 Sabourenkov.
7178
717971. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7180 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7181 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7182 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7183 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7184 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7185 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7186 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7187 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7188
718972. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7190 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7191 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7192 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7193 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7194 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7195 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7196
719773. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7198 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7199 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7200
720174. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7202 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7203 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7204 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7205 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7206 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7207 instead of killing the process with assert().
7208
720975. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7210 than Unicode encoding.
7211
721276. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7213 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7214 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7215 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7216
721777. Added process_log_path.
7218
721978. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7220 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7221
722279. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7223 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7224
722580. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7226 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7227 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7228
722981. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7230 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7231 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7232 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7233 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7234 were applied:
7235
7236 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7237 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7238 as invalid.
7239
724082. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7241 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7242 they will be used during message reception.
7243
7244
7245Exim version 4.20
7246-----------------
7247
7248The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7249
7250****