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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
8 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
9 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
10
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11NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
12
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13NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
14 improved.
15
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16NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
17
c1e794ba 18PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 19
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20PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
21
22PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
23 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
24
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25PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
26 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
27
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28PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
29 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
30
f1e05cc7 31PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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32 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
33 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 34
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35PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
36
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37PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
38 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
39
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40PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
41
c45dd180 42PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 43
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44PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
45 non-compliant senders.
46 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
47
eae0036b 48NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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49 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
50 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
51
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52PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
53 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
54 in spool file corruption.
55
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56PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
57 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
58 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
59 "Got SSL error 2".
60
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61TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
62 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
63 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
64
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65JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
66 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
67
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68JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
69
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70PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
71 diagnostics.
72 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
73
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74PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
75 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
76 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
77
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78PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
79 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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80 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
81 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 82
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83PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
84 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
85
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86PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
87 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
88 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
89 resolver implementation change.
90
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91PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
92 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
93
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94PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
95
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96PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
97
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98PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
99 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
100
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101PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
102 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
103
9e45c72b 104JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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105 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
106
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107PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
108 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
109 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
110 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 111 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 112
53947857 113PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 114
eae0036b 115PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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116 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
117 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 118
9e45c72b 119JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 120
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121PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
122 read-only, out of scope).
123 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
124
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125PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
126 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
127 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
128 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
129
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130PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
131
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132PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
133 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
134 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
135 real issues in debug logging.
136
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137PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
138 assignment on my part. Fixed.
139
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140PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
141 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
142 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
143
144PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
145 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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146 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
147 problems.
3375e053 148
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149PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
150 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
151
57eb9e91 152PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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153 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
154 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
155 needs to override this, it can.
156
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157PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
158 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
159 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
160
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161PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
162 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
163 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
164 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
165
3ecab157 166PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 167
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169Exim version 4.77
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171
172PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
173 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
174
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175TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
176
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177TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
178 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 179
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180TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
181 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
182
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183TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
184 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
185 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
186
187 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
188 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
189 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
190 not safe for signals.
191
192 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
193 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
194 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
195 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
196 exiwhat.
197
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198TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
199
200 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
201 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
202 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
203 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
204 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
205
206 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
207 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
208 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
209 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
210 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
211 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
212
213 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
214 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
215 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
216 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
217
218 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
219 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
220 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
221 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
222
223 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
224 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
225 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
226 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
227 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
228 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
229 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
230 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
231 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
232
233 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
234 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
235 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
236 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
237
238 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
239 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
240 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
241 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
242 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
243 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
244 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
245 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
246 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
247 details in the main documentation.
248
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249TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
250
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251TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
252
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253TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
254 repository when doing development or release builds.
255
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256PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
257 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 258
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259PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
260 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
261 Bugzilla 97.
262
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263PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
264
9e949f00 265PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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266 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
267
268PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
269 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 270
555ae6af 271PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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272 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
273
274PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
275 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 276
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277PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
278 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
279
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280PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
281 Bugzilla 1156.
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282 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
283 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 284
d6cc7c78 285PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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286 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
287 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
288
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289PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
290
3399bb60 291PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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292
293PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
294 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
295
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297Exim version 4.76
298-----------------
299
300PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
301
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302PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
303 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
304
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305PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
306
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307PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
308
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309PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
310 Bugzilla 1098.
311
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312PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
313 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 314
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315TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
316 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
317
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318PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
319 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
320
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321PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
322 Bugzilla 1104.
323
c8d52a00 324TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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325 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
326
327TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
328 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
329 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
330 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
331
332PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
333 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
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336Exim version 4.75
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338
4c9ef03a 339NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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340 Bugzilla 1073
341
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342TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
343 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
344 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
345
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346TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
347 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
348
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349PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
350 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
351 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
352
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353PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
354 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
355
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356PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
357 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
358
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359NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
360 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
361
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362NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
363 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
364
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365PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
366 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 367
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368NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
369 Fixes bug 943.
370
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371PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
372 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
373
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374PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
375 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
376
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377PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
378 SQL string expansion failure details.
379 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
380
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381PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
382 Patch from Simon Arlott.
383
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384PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
385 extern declarations in function scope.
386 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
387
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388PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
389 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
390 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
391 a kernel bug).
392
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393PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
394 Patch from Mark Zealey.
395
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396PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
397 Patch from Mark Zealey.
398
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399PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
400 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
401
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402PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
403 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
404
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405NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
406 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
407 Dennis Davis.
408
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409PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
410
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411PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
412
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413NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
414 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 415
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416TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
417 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
418
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422
423TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
424 consequences so log it to the panic log.
425
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426TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
427 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
428
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429TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
430
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431DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
432 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
433 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
434
435PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
436 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
437 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
438
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439PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
440 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
441 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
442 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
443
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444PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
445 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
446 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
447 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
448
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449PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
450 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
451 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
452 arbitrary files.
453
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454PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
455 (Wolfgang Breyha)
456
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457PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
458 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
459 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
460 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
461 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
462
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466
467PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
468 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
469 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
470
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471PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
472 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
473
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474JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
475
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476PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
477
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478PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
479
ec5a0394 480PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 481
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482PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
483
453a6645 484PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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485 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
486 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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487 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
488
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489PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
490 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
491 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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492 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
493 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 494
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495PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
496
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497PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
498
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499PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
500
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501PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
502
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503PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
504
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505PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
506
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507PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
508
6a8de854 509PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
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510 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
511 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 512
5dc43717
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513JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
514
515JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
516 "exim" to be used
55c75993 517
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518PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
519 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
520
491fab4c
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521PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
522 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
523 Notification from John Horne.
524
13eb9497
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525PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
526 compatible.
527
528PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
529 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
530 it normally works.
531
7f36d675
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532DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
533 access.
534
c1d94452
DW
535DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
536 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
537 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
538
e2f5dc15
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539DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
540 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
541 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
542 configuration file.
543
cd25e41d
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544DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
545 option (effectively making it always true).
546
261dc43e
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547DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
548 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
549
fa32850b
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550DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
551 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
552
79d4bc3d
PP
553PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
554 run-time user, instead of root.
555
43236f35 556PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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557 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
558
fb08281f
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559DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
560 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
561 arguments.
3346ab01 562
74935b98
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563DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
564 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
565 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
566
90b6341f
DW
567DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
568
57730b52
ML
569NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
570
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572Exim version 4.72
573-----------------
574
453a6645
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575JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
576 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
577 typos
465e92cf 578
453a6645
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579JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
580 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
581 (Finput)
edae0343 582
9bd3e22c
NM
583NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
584 Patch from Alain Williams
585
bb576ff7
NM
586NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
587
5a1a5845
NM
588NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
589 Patch from Andreas Metzler
590
981a9fad
NM
591NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
592 Patch from Kirill Miazine
593
7fc497ee
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594NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
595
1a41defa
JJ
596JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
597
a466095c 598NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 599 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 600
94a6bd0b
NM
601TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
602
603TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
604
605MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
606 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
607 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
608
c1b141a8
NM
609NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
610 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 611
b26eacf1 612NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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613 Patch by Simon Arlott
614
179c5980 615PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 616 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 617
9bd3e22c 618
7c6d71af
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619Exim version 4.71
620-----------------
621
7d9f747b 622TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 623
f013fb92
NM
624NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
625
0eb8eedd
NM
626NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
627
663ee6d9
NM
628NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
629
177ebd9b
NM
630NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
631
7c6d71af 632
210f147e
NM
633Exim version 4.70
634-----------------
635
cdd3bb85 636TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 637 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
638
639TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
640 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 641 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
642
643TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
644 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 645 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
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646
647TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
648 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
649
210f147e
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650NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
651 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
652 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
653 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
654
deafd5b3
NM
655NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
656 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 657 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 658
089793a4
TF
659TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
660
5f16ca82
TF
661TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
662
dae9d94e 663NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 664 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 665
7d9f747b 666NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 667
06864c44
TF
668TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
669 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
670 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
671 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
672
65a7d8c3 673NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 674 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 675
23510047 676TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 677
7d9f747b 678NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 679
7d8eec3a 680NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 681 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 682
89dec7b6
TF
683TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
684 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 685
a99de90c
TF
686TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
687 that they are available at delivery time.
688
e2803e40
TF
689TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
690
7199e1ee
TF
691TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
692 incoming_port log selectors.
693
e276e04b
TF
694TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
695 setting expands to an empty string.
696
ce552449 697NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 698 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 699
e765a0f1 700NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 701 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 702
4f054c63 703NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 704 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 705
7d9f747b
PP
706NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
707 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 708
7d9f747b
PP
709NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
710 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 711
b52bc06e 712NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 713 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 714
447de4b0
NM
715NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
716
4c69d561 717NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 718 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 719
d5c39246 720NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 721 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 722
0b23848a
TK
723TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
724
8f3414a1 725NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 726 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 727
fb6f955d
NM
728NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
729
730NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 731
7d9f747b
PP
732NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
733 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 734
7d9f747b
PP
735NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
736 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 737
7d9f747b
PP
738NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
739 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 740
7d9f747b
PP
741NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
742 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 743
7d9f747b
PP
744NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
745 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 746
7d9f747b
PP
747NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
748 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 749
7d9f747b
PP
750NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
751 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 752
7d9f747b 753NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 754 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 755
7d9f747b 756NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 757
7d9f747b
PP
758NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
759 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 760
7d9f747b 761NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 762
7d9f747b 763NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 764
7d9f747b 765NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 766
7d9f747b 767NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 768
17792b53 769NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 770 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 771
7d9f747b
PP
772NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
773 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 774
7d9f747b
PP
775NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
776 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 777
7d9f747b
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778NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
779 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 780
7d9f747b 781NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 782
7d9f747b 783NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 784
7d9f747b 785NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 786
7d9f747b 787NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 788
deafd5b3 789
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NM
790Exim version 4.69
791-----------------
792
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793TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
794 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
795 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
796
797 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
798 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
799 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
800 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
801 build errors in sieve.c.
802
81ea09ca
NM
803NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
804 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
805 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
806
f13cddcb
SC
807SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
808
7d9f747b 809NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 810
7d9f747b 811NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 812
7d9f747b 813NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
814
815
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816Exim version 4.68
817-----------------
818
819PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
820
6a3bceb1
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821PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
822 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
823 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
824 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
825 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
826 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
827 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
828 for iplsearch lookups.
829
830 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
831 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
832 previously such lookups could never work.
833
834 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
835 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
836 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
837
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TK
838TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
839 version.
840
0806a9c5
MH
841MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
842 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
843 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
844 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
845 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
846 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
847
ae276964
TK
848TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
849 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
850
0f2cbd1b
MH
851MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
852 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
853 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
854 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
855 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
856 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
857
2b85bce7
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858PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
859 local_scan API.
860
93655c46
PH
861PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
862
6c512171
PH
863PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
864 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
865 encrypted.
866
867PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
868 by clients under certain conditions.
869
aa6dc513
PH
870PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
871 "_responses" off the end of the name.
872
a96603a0
PH
873PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
874
8f240103
PH
875PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
876 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
877
878PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
879
d677b2f2
PH
880PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
881
d52120f2
PH
882PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
883
64f2600a
PH
884PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
885 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
886
8669f003
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887PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
888
a4dc33a8
PH
889PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
890 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
891
d6a60c0f
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892PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
893
8f128379
PH
894PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
895
8932dffe
PH
896PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
897 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
898 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
899 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 900
ddea74fa 901PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
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902 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
903 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
904
ddea74fa 905PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
906 and InterBase are left for another time.)
907
ddea74fa
PH
908PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
909
ce9f225c
PH
910PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
911
19897d52
PH
912PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
913
bc64a74d
PH
914PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
915 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
916 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
917
eb4c0de6 918
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919Exim version 4.67
920-----------------
921
22ad45c9
MH
922MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
923 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
924 Jan Srzednicki.
925
b4ed4da0
PH
926PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
927 issue a MAIL command.
928
431b7361
PH
929PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
930
931 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
932
933 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
934 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
935 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
936 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
937 item. This has been fixed.
938
939PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
940 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
941
83da1223
PH
942PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
943 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
944
54fc8428
PH
945PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
946 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
947 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
948
34c5e8dd
SC
949SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
950
bbe15da8
PH
951PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
952 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
953 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
954 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
955 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
956
0e8a9471
MH
957MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
958 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
959 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
960
f0872424
PH
961PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
962 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
963 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
964 the server_setid option was incorrect.
965
b01dd148
PH
966PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
967
6bf342e1
PH
968PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
969
273f34d0
PH
970PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
971 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
972 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
973 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
974 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
975
cf8b11a5
PH
976PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
977
41c7c167
PH
978PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
979 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
980 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
981 values).
982
9c57cbc0
PH
983PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
984
f3f065bb
PH
985PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
986
047bdd8c
PH
987PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
988
0ce9abe6
PH
989PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
990
0e22dfd1
PH
991PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
992
4c590bd1
PH
993PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
994 no_callout_flush is set.
995
09945f1e
PH
996PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
997 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
998 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
999 fixed.
1000
c51b8e75
PH
1001PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1002
e28326d8
PH
1003PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1004 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1005 other ACL rejections are.
1006
75b1493f
PH
1007PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1008 with slight modification.
1009
7c5214ec
PH
1010PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1011 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1012
4311097e
PH
1013PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1014 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1015 connection.
1016
29f89cad
PH
1017PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1018 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1019
5e687460
SC
1020SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1021
c3611384
PH
1022PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1023 expansion side effects.
1024
5a11a7b4
PH
1025PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1026 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1027 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1028 be the same.
1029
0e20aff9
MH
1030MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1031 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1032 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1033
ca86f471
PH
1034PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1035 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1036 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1037 were accidentally chopped off.
1038
a14e5636
PH
1039PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1040 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1041 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1042 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1043 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1044 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1045 pipelining has not been advertised.
1046
ec95d1a6
PH
1047PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1048
42855d71
PH
1049PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1050 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1051 This has been fixed.
1052
57c2c631
PH
1053PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1054 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1055 reported on Solaris.
1056
58c01c94
PH
1057PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1058 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1059 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1060 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1061 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1062 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1063 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1064
dee5a20a
PH
1065PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1066 cpus.
1067
d2ee6114
PH
1068PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1069
b2d5182b
PH
1070PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1071
79749a79
PH
1072PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1073 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1074 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1075 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1076 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1077 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1078
c456d9bb
PH
1079PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1080 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1081 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1082 host_all_ignored option.
1083
cd9868ec
PH
1084PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1085 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1086 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1087 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1088 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1089 is what is supposed to happen).
1090
ebeaf996
PH
1091PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1092 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1093 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1094 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1095 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1096 uses the Exim user.
1097
2679d413
PH
1098PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1099 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1100 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1101 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1102 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1103 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1104 users.
1105
84024b72
PH
1106PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1107
8005d38e
SC
1108SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1109 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1110 (Jez Hancock).
1111 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1112 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1113
3298c6c6
SC
1114SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1115
a43a27c5
PH
1116PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1117
58eb016e 1118PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1119 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1120 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1121 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1122 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1123 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1124 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1125 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1126 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1127 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1128 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1129
b43a74ea
PH
1130PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1131 advertised in response to EHLO.
1132
b4ed4da0 1133
5dd1517f
PH
1134Exim version 4.66
1135-----------------
1136
1137PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1138 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1139
1140 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1141 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1142
1143 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1144 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1145 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1146
1147 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1148 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1149 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1150 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1151 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1152
1153
93cfa765
TK
1154Exim version 4.65
1155-----------------
1156
1157TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1158 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1159 versions. (#438)
1160
d6066548
MH
1161MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1162 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1163 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1164
4362ff0d
PH
1165PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1166 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1167 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1168 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1169 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1170 rather than extend the field.
1171
93cfa765 1172
944e9e9c
TF
1173Exim version 4.64
1174-----------------
aa41d2de 1175
21d74bd9
TK
1176TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1177 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1178 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1179 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1180 these files.
1181
1182TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1183 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1184 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1185
1186TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1187 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1188 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1189
1190TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1191 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1192 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1193 in the field name.
1194
2b1c6e3a
PH
1195PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1196 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1197 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1198 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1199 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1200 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1201 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1202 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1203 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1204 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1205 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1206
1f872c80
PH
1207PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1208 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1209
1210PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1211 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1212 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1213 ignores EPIPE as well.
1214
d203e649
PH
1215PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1216 (quoted-printable decoding).
1217
cc2ed8f7 1218PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1219 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1220
ddfcd446
PH
1221PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1222
d45b1de8
PH
1223PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1224
1225PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1226
38a0a95f 1227PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1228 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1229
a2405d83
JJ
1230JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1231 in 4.64-PH/09.
1232
1233JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1234 miscellaneous code fixes
1235
6ea85e9a
PH
1236PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1237 rejections.
1238
26da7e20
PH
1239PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1240 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1241 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1242 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1243 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1244 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1245 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1246 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1247
14aa5a05 1248PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1249 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1250 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1251 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1252 function.
1253 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1254 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1255 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1256 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1257 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1258 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1259 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1260 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1261 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1262
ff75a1f7
PH
1263PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1264 decoding.
1265
e6f6568e
PH
1266PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1267 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1268 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1269 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1270 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1271 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1272 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1273 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1274
d6f6e0dc
PH
1275PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1276 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1277 list.
1278
322050c2
PH
1279PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1280 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1281 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1282 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1283 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1284 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1285 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1286 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1287 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1288 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1289 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1290 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1291 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1292
08955dd3
PH
1293PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1294 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1295 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1296 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1297 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1298 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1299 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1300
1eccaa59
PH
1301PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1302 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1303 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1304 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1305 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1306 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1307 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1308 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1309 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1310 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1311
602e59e5
PH
1312PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1313 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1314 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1315 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1316 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1317
411ef850
PH
1318PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1319 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1320 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1321 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1322 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1323 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1324 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1325
7befa435
PH
1326PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1327 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1328 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1329 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1330 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1331 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1332 been verified.
1333
48da4259 1334PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1335 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1336 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1337 and authorization.)
1338
48da4259
PH
1339PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1340 if any retry times were supplied.
1341
d1d5595c
PH
1342PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1343 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1344 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1345
0ef732d9
PH
1346PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1347
328895cc
PH
1348PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1349
fd700877
PH
1350PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1351 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1352 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1353 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1354 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1355 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1356
8dce1a6f
PH
1357PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1358 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1359
17af4a17
PH
1360PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1361 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1362 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1363
1364PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1365 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1366 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1367 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1368 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1369 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1370 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1371 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1372 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1373
1374 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1375 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1376 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1377 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1378 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1379 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1380 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1381 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1382 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1383
1384 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1385 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1386 hammering the server.
1387
c1114884
PH
1388PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1389 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1390
7a0743eb
PH
1391PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1392
0d85fa3f
PH
1393PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1394 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1395 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1396
1bf43b78
PH
1397PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1398 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1399 one case where this was not true.
1400
520de300
PH
1401PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1402 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1403 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1404 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1405 fails.
1406
48c7f9e2
PH
1407PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1408 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1409 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1410 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1411 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1412 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1413 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1414 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1415 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1416 smtp transport.
1417
99ea1c86
PH
1418PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1419 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1420 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1421 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1422
a2042e78
PH
1423PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1424 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1425
4fbcfc2e
PH
1426PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1427 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1428 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1429
aa41d2de
PH
1430PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1431
af561417
PH
1432PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1433
3cc66b45
PH
1434PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1435
194cc0e4
PH
1436PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1437 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1438 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1439 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1440
a401ddaa
PH
1441PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1442 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1443
4e88a19f
PH
1444PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1445 be meaningful with "accept".
1446
d7d7b289
SC
1447SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1448 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1449
1450SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1451 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1452 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1453
1454SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1455 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1456 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1457 there is data to show.
1458 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1459
1460SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1461 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1462 as well as the number of messages.
1463
1464SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1465 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1466 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1467
1468SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1469 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1470 have a flag are now skipped.
1471
1472SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1473 Added the -emptyok flag.
1474
1475SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1476 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1477
0ea2a468
JJ
1478JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1479 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1480 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1481
1482JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1483 match 4.64-PH/13
1484
1485JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1486 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1487
1488JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1489
1490JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1491 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1492
8a10f5a4
PH
1493PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1494
30e18802
PH
1495PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1496 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1497 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1498 contravention of the specifications.
1499
55728a4f
PH
1500PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1501 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1502 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1503
d7837193
PH
1504PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1505 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1506 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1507
87054a31
PH
1508PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1509
ea2c01d2
MH
1510MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1511 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1512 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1513 some point in the past.
1514
e4fa6968
PH
1515PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1516 transport during callout processing was broken.
1517
56f5d9bd
PH
1518PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1519 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1520
922e1c28
PH
1521PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1522 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1523
21eb6e72
PH
1524PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1525 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1526
a0540757
PH
1527PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1528
944e9e9c 1529
478be7b0
SC
1530Exim version 4.63
1531-----------------
1532
1533SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1534 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1535
1536SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1537 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1538 there is data to show.
1539 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1540
1541SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1542 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1543
2b965a65
TF
1544TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1545 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1546
45b91596
PH
1547TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1548 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1549
c59f5781
TF
1550TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1551 submissions from trusted users.
1552
90fc3069
TF
1553TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1554 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1555
6083aca0
TF
1556TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1557 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1558 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1559 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1560 there is now a framework to start from.
1561
765b530f
PH
1562PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1563 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1564 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1565
4e167a8c
PH
1566PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1567
4608d683
PH
1568PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1569
b8dc3e4a
PH
1570PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1571
5418e93b
PH
1572PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1573 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1574 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1575
b4a9bda2
PH
1576PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1577 libradius.
1578
45b91596
PH
1579PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1580 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1581 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1582
5547e2c5
PH
1583PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1584 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1585 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1586 its arguments.
1587
dbcef0ea
PH
1588PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1589 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1590 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1591 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1592 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1593
25257489
PH
1594PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1595 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1596
c816d124
PH
1597PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1598
a9ccd69a
PH
1599PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1600 operations in malware.c.
1601
75fa1910
PH
1602PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1603 signatures.
1604
a7d7aa58
PH
1605PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1606 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1607 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1608 all.
1609
42119b09
PH
1610PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1611 statements to "add_header".
1612
41609df5
PH
1613PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1614 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1615
a5bd321b
PH
1616PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1617 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1618 latter.
1619
e85a7ad5 1620PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1621 so that it is now:
1622
e85a7ad5
PH
1623 ${if or { \
1624 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1625 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1626 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1627 }{no}{yes}}
1628
e85a7ad5
PH
1629 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1630 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1631
d8fe1c03
PH
1632PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1633 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1634
16282d2b
PH
1635PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1636 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1637 any possible encoding problems.
1638
35d40a98
PH
1639PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1640 but not after initializing Perl.
1641
034d99ab
PH
1642PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1643 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1644 apparently, which is not desirable.
1645
6ec97b1b
PH
1646PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1647 queries.
1648
e22ca4ac
JJ
1649JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1650 --not options
1651
1652JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1653
33d73e3b
PH
1654PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1655 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1656 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1657 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1658
9ecb03f3
PH
1659PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1660 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1661 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1662
084efe8d
PH
1663PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1664 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1665 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1666 0.12.
1667
366fc9f0
PH
1668PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1669 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1670 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1671 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1672 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1673
c59f5781 1674
c887c79e
TF
1675Exim version 4.62
1676-----------------
1677
1678TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1679 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1680
1cce3af8
PH
1681PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1682 patch).
1683
afb3eaaf
PH
1684PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1685 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1686 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1687 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1688 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1689 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1690 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1691 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1692 451 error is used.
1693
e173618b
PH
1694PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1695
dd16e114
PH
1696PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1697 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1698 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1699
f7fd3850
PH
1700PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1701 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1702 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1703 odd errors.
1704
d87df92c
PH
1705PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1706 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1707
7e9f683d
PH
1708PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1709 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1710 option (which defaults to 0600).
1711
bfad5236
PH
1712PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1713
01c490df
PH
1714PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1715 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1716 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1717 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1718 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1719 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1720 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1721
d6629cdc
PH
1722PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1723
1cce3af8 1724
214e2000
PH
1725Exim version 4.61
1726-----------------
1727
1728PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1729 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1730 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1731 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1732 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1733 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1734 addresses as local.
1735
f9daeae0
PH
1736PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1737 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1738
7e66e54d
PH
1739PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1740
c8ea1597
PH
1741PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1742 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1743 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1744 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1745 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1746 grumble.
1747
911f6fde
PH
1748PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1749 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1750
47ca6d6c
PH
1751PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1752 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1753 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1754 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1755 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1756
ed0e9820
PH
1757PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1758 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1759 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1760 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1761
eff37e47
PH
1762PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1763 be the same on different OS.
1764
1921d2ea
PH
1765PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1766 testing.
1767
b3f69ca8
JJ
1768JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1769 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1770
1771JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1772 in 4.61-PH/06
1773
424a1c63
PH
1774PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1775 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1776 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1777 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1778 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1779 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1780 bounce message.
1781
7a100415
PH
1782PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1783 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1784 when Exim was called.
1785
19b9dc85
PH
1786PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1787 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1788
309bd837
PH
1789PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1790 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1791 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1792 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1793
59e82a2a
PH
1794PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1795 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1796 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1797 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1798 changes:
1799
1800 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1801 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1802 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1803
1804 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1805 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1806 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1807
9edc04ce
PH
1808PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1809 feature).
1810
1349e1e5
PH
1811PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1812 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1813 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1814 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1815 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1816 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1817 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1818 values from the SRV records were lost.
1819
ea49d0e1
PH
1820PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1821 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1822 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1823
064a94c9
PH
1824PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1825 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1826 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1827
727071f8
PH
1828PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1829 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1830 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1831 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1832 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1833 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1834 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1835 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1836 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1837 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1838
f78eb7c6
PH
1839PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1840 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1841 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1842
21c28500
PH
1843PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1844 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1845
1846PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1847 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1848 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1849 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1850 is given.
1851
1688f43b
PH
1852PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1853 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1854 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1855
1856PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1857 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1858 PH/23 above applies.
1859
9675b384
PH
1860PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1861 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1862 (for which there is an explicit test).
1863
6a3f1455
PH
1864PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1865
dac79d3e
PH
1866PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1867 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1868 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1869 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1870 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1871
5977a0b3
PH
1872PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1873 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1874 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1875 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1876
c91535f3
PH
1877PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1878 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1879 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1880
0d46a8c8
PH
1881PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1882
278c6e6c
PH
1883PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1884
2cbb4081
PH
1885PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1886 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1887 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1888
3eef829e
PH
1889PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1890 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1891 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1892 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1893 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1894
1ab95fa6
PH
1895PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1896 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1897 the message gets confusing).
1898
230205fc
PH
1899PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1900 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1901 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1902 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1903
75e0e026
PH
1904PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1905 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1906 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1907 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1908 same order.
1909
1910PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1911 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1912 the different processes.
1913
145396a6
PH
1914PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1915
3cd34f13
PH
1916PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1917
11121d3d
JJ
1918JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1919 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1920
1921JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1922 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1923
1924JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1925 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1926 messages matching specified criteria.
1927
8def5aaf
PH
1928PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1929
929ba01c
PH
1930PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1931 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1932
2632889e
PH
1933PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1934 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1935 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1936 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1937 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1938 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1939 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1940 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1941 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1942 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1943
944a9c55
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1944PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1945 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1946 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1947
4a23603b
PH
1948PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1949
4730f942
PH
1950PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1951 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1952 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1953 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1954 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1955 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1956 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1957 the variable.
1958
30dba1e6
PH
1959PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1960 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1961
382afc6b
PH
1962PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1963
a86229cf
PH
1964PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1965
50c99ba6
PH
1966PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1967
d35e429d
PH
1968PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1969 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1970 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1971 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1972 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1973 size of the count of files.
1974
f90d018c
PH
1975PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1976
75def545
PH
1977PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1978 used in LMTP mode:
1979
1980 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1981 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1982 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1983 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1984
1985 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1986 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1987 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1988
1989PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1990 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1991 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1992 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1993 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1994
c46782ef
PH
1995PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1996 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1997
71fafd95
PH
1998PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1999 will now be deprecated.
2000
2c5db4fd
PH
2001PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2002
9cf6b11a
JJ
2003JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2004 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2005 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2006
2007JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2008 with very large, slow to parse queues
2009
2010JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2011
2012JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2013
898d150f
PH
2014PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2015 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2016 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2017 SMTP output lines.
2018
46218253
PH
2019PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2020 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2021 Sieve code now uses this.
2022
e97957bc
PH
2023PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2024 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2025
81e509d7
PH
2026PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2027 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2028
3d240ff7
PH
2029PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2030
b37c4101
PH
2031PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2032 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2033 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2034 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2035 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2036
79378e0f
PH
2037PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2038 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2039 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2040 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2041
e49c7bb4
PH
2042PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2043
d114ec46
PH
2044PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2045
f3d7df6c
PH
2046PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2047 is preferred over IPv4.
2048
715ab376
PH
2049PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2050 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2051 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2052 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2053 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2054 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2055 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2056
6b31b150
PH
2057PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2058 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2059 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2060
2061PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2062
d515a917
PH
2063PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2064 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2065 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2066 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2067 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2068 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2069 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2070 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2071 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2072 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2073 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2074
9b8fadde
PH
2075PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2076 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2077 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2078
214e2000 2079
5de37277
PH
2080Exim version 4.60
2081-----------------
2082
cc38ddbf
PH
2083PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2084
2085 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2086 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2087
2088 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2089 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2090 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2091
72fdd6ae
PH
2092PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2093
2094 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2095 not a single digit.
2096
2097 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2098 string.
2099
2100 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2101 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2102 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2103 silly things.
2104
2105 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2106 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2107
2108 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2109 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2110
cb741023
PH
2111PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2112 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2113 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2114
f174f16e
PH
2115PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2116 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2117
c25242d7
PH
2118PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2119 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2120
2121 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2122
2123 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2124 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2125 this:
2126
2127 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2128
82c19f95
PH
2129PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2130 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2131 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2132 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2133 identical. For example:
2134
2135 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2136
2137 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2138 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2139 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2140
d7ffbc12
PH
2141PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2142 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2143 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2144 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2145
9f526266
PH
2146PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2147 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2148 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2149 message.
2150
87fcc8b9
PH
2151PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2152
2153 o fixes some comments
2154 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2155 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2156 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2157 and documents the missing references header update
2158
2159 and most important:
2160
2161 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2162 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2163 result)
2164
456682f5
PH
2165PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2166 Electronic Mail") by including:
2167
2168 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2169
2170 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2171 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2172 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2173 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2174 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2175
2176 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2177
2178 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2179
2180 The auto-replied keyword:
2181
2182 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2183 message by an automatic process,
2184
2185 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2186
2187 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2188 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2189
2190 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2191 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2192 other messages.
2193
3e46c1aa
PH
2194PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2195 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2196
49826d12
PH
2197PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2198
eba0c039
PH
2199PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2200 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2201 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2202
a0d6ba8a
PH
2203PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2204 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2205 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2206
f0917727
PH
2207PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2208 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2209 and treats the condition as false.
2210
096fee00
PH
2211PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2212
024bd3c2
PH
2213PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2214 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2215 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2216 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2217 not changing the active code.
2218
2219 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2220 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2221
2222 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2223 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2224
df199fec
PH
2225PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2226 (Bugzilla #53).
2227
d27f1df3
PH
2228PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2229 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2230 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2231 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2232 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2233 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2234 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2235 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2236 the text comparison.
2237
96776534
PH
2238PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2239 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2240 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2241 The same fix has been applied.
2242
5de37277 2243
9a799bc0
PH
2244Exim version 4.54
2245-----------------
2246
2247PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2248 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2249 It now does.
2250
99a4b039
PH
2251PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2252 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2253
2254PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2255
4b233853
PH
2256PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2257 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2258 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2259 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2260 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2261
8857ccfd
PH
2262TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2263 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2264 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2265 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2266 or /domain=).
2267
433a2980
PH
2268PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2269 testing suite.
2270
3e46c1aa 2271
9a799bc0 2272
e3a311ba
TK
2273Exim version 4.53
2274-----------------
2275
2276TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2277 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2278
13b685f9
PH
2279PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2280
395ff96d
PH
2281PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2282
5b68f6e4
PH
2283PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2284 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2285 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2286
1ab52c69
PH
2287PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2288 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2289 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2290
b07e6aa3
PH
2291PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2292 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2293 operating systems.
2294
254e032f
PH
2295PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2296 ${stat: expansion item.
2297
3af76a81
PH
2298PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2299 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2300
2548ba04
PH
2301PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2302 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2303 file for comments.
2304
b6c6011d
PH
2305PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2306
cf39cf57
PH
2307PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2308 setting.
2309
f1513293
PH
2310PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2311 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2312
727549a4
PH
2313TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2314
af46795e
PH
2315PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2316 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2317 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2318 the end of the subprocess.
2319
d7b47fd0
PH
2320PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2321 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2322 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2323 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2324 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2325
ee744174
JJ
2326JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2327
b582ab87
PH
2328TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2329
41a13e0a
PH
2330PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2331 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2332
f625cc5a
PH
2333PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2334
2335PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2336
21f7af35
PH
2337PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2338 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2339 HP-UX compiler.
2340
31480e42
PH
2341PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2342
2d280592
PH
2343PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2344 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2345 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2346
7cd1141b
PH
2347PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2348 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2349
2350PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2351 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2352
750af86e
PH
2353PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2354 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2355
2356 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2357 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2358
2359 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2360 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2361 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2362 contributed by a Radius user.
2363
2364PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2365 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2366
4304270b
TK
2367TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2368 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2369
750af86e
PH
2370PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2371 available.
2372
64ffc24f
PH
2373PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2374 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2375 received.
2376
5dd9625b
PH
2377PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2378 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2379 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2380 header lines when this was not necessary.
2381
5591031b
PH
2382PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2383
ba18e66a
PH
2384PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2385 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2386 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2387 exists".
2388
9cec981f
PH
2389PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2390 -bV or -d is used.
2391
aa2b5c79
PH
2392PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2393 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2394 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2395 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2396
48a53b7f
PH
2397PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2398
1c59d63b
PH
2399PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2400
671012da
TK
2401TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2402
1509d3a8
PH
2403PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2404
2405PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2406 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2407 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2408 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2409 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2410 settings.
2411
2412PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2413
2fe1a124
PH
2414PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2415 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2416 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2417 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2418 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2419 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2420 which is clearly wrong.
2421
8800895a
PH
2422PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2423
ccfdb010
PH
2424PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2425 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2426 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2427 subsequently added.
2428
1130bfb0
PH
2429PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2430 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2431
ebcb507f
PH
2432PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2433
c35e155c
PH
2434PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2435 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2436
95d1f782
PH
2437PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2438 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2439
fd6de02e
PH
2440PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2441 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2442
58de37c5
PH
2443PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2444 recipients, not senders.
2445
261cf466
TF
2446TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2447 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2448
3ee512ff
PH
2449PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2450
e08c430f
PH
2451PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2452
bef5a11f
PH
2453PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2454 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2455 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2456 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2457
7546de58
TF
2458TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2459
e5d5a95f
TF
2460TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2461 clock is set back in time.
2462
2e88a017
TF
2463TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2464 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2465
a5f65aa4
TF
2466TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2467 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2468
e7726cbf
PH
2469PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2470 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2471 (see PH/47 above).
2472
a7fdad5b
TF
2473TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2474 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2475 header rewrites.
2476
6af56900
PH
2477PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2478 type ("H").
2479
0925ede6
PH
2480PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2481
66afa403
TF
2482TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2483 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2484 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2485
0154e85a
TF
2486TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2487 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2488 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2489 helo verification defer as a failure.
2490
16f12c76
PH
2491PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2492 actual error message.
2493
bbe902f0 2494
e5a9dba6
PH
2495Exim version 4.52
2496-----------------
2497
2498TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2499
22c3b60b
PH
2500PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2501 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2502 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2503 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2504
06a9b4b5
PH
2505TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2506
c1ac6996
PH
2507PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2508 can still be requested.
2509
9c7a242c
PH
2510PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2511 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2512 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2513 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2514
87ba3f5f
PH
2515TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2516 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2517 circumstances, but probably never did.
2518
2519PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2520 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2521 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2522 in the header line.
2523
29aba418
TF
2524TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2525
fe0dab11
TF
2526TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2527 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2528
11d337a4
TK
2529TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2530
2531TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2532
415c8f3b
PH
2533PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2534 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2535 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2536 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2537 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2538 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2539
958541e9
PH
2540PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2541 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2542 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2543 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2544 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2545 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2546
c206415f
TK
2547TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2548 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2549
2a4be8f9
PH
2550PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2551 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2552
1cba11c5
SC
2553SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2554 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2555
2556SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2557
2558SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2559
2560SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2561
2562SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2563
2564SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2565
2566SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2567
1005d00e
TK
2568TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2569
2570TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2571 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2572 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2573
2574TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2575 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2576 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2577 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2578
9b4768fa
PH
2579PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2580 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2581 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2582
2583PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2584 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2585 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2586 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2587
0d7eb84a
PH
2588PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2589 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2590 to be made).
2591
2592PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2593 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2594 should work with maildirs and everything.
2595
40727bee
TK
2596TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2597 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2598
554d2369
TF
2599TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2600 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2601
1f922db1
PH
2602PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2603 function for BDB 4.3.
2604
ef213c3b
PH
2605PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2606
8ac170f3
PH
2607PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2608 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2609 involved.
2610
b1c749bb
PH
2611PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2612 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2613 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2614 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2615 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2616 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2617
4aac9b49
PH
2618PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2619 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2620 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2621 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2622 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2623 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2624 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2625 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2626
294520c8
TK
2627TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2628 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2629 details.
2630
5bd022fe
PH
2631PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2632 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2633
90e9ce59
PH
2634PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2635 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2636 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2637 test. It is now used for both.
2638
5ea81592
PH
2639PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2640 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2641 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2642 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2643 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2644 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2645
c6c2dc1d
PH
2646PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2647 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2648 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2649 string_vformat().
2650
fffffe4c
PH
2651PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2652 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2653 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2654
9a26b6b2
PH
2655PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2656 experimental DomainKeys support:
2657
2658 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2659 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2660 the control was given.
2661
2662 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2663
4aee0225
PH
2664PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2665
32d668a5
PH
2666PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2667
8187c3f3
PH
2668PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2669 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2670 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2671 db.h files).
2672
ff790e47 2673PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2674 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2675 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2676 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2677 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2678 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2679 course.
ff790e47 2680
5417f6d1
PH
2681PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2682 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2683 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2684 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2685 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2686 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2687
59cf8544
PH
2688PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2689 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2690 do -d+all out of habit.
2691
e7ad8a65
PH
2692PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2693 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2694 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2695
ade42478
PH
2696PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2697 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2698 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2699 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2700 record types that Exim uses.
2701
182ad5cf
PH
2702PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2703 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2704 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2705 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2706 non-existent file that was broken.
2707
b0d9fc80
TK
2708TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2709 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2710
2711TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2712 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2713 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2714
2715TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2716
47c7a64a
PH
2717PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2718 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2719 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2720 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2721 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2722 same time.
2723
a388bce4
SC
2724SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2725 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2726 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2727 at a slight CPU cost.
2728
2729SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2730 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2731
2732SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2733 by Marc Sherman.
2734
0793e4ed
SC
2735SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2736
c58b88df
PH
2737PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2738 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2739
e7ad8a65 2740
7982096b
PH
2741Exim version 4.51
2742-----------------
2743
1a46a8c5
PH
2744TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2745 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2746
2f079f46 2747TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2748
2749TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2750
2751PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2752 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2753
2754PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2755 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2756 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2757 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2758 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2759 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2760 file.
2761
2762PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2763 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2764 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2765 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2766 these two options.
2767
2768PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2769 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2770 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2771 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2772 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2773 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2774 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2775 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2776
2777PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2778 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2779
2780PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2781 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2782 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2783 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2784 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2785 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2786
2787PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2788 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2789 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2790 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2791
2792PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2793 Finch).
2794
2795PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2796 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2797
49c2d5ea
PH
2798PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2799 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2800 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2801 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2802 message.
49c2d5ea 2803
bf759a8b
PH
2804PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2805
83364d30
PH
2806PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2807 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2808
7999bbd7
PH
2809PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2810 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2811 to what was transported.)
2812
7dbf77c9
PH
2813TF/01 Added $received_time.
2814
74e0617f
PH
2815PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2816 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2817 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2818 spamd_address settings.
2819
2f079f46
PH
2820PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2821 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2822 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2823 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2824 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2825
8c841523
PH
2826PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2827
7766a4f0
PH
2828PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2829 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2830 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2831 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2832 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2833
8b417f2c
PH
2834PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2835 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2836
901f42cb
PH
2837PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2838 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2839 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2840 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2841 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2842 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2843 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2844 for failure.
2845
f9b9210e
PH
2846PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2847 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2848 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2849 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2850 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2851 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2852 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2853 "input=".
2854
54cdb463
PH
2855PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2856
cf00dad6
PH
2857PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2858 driver and ACL definitions.
2859
acb1b346
PH
2860PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2861 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2862
c5ddb310
PH
2863PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2864 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2865 understands it better than I do:
2866
2867 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2868 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2869
2870 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2871 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2872 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2873 => three warnings about OTP not working
2874 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2875
2876 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2877 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2878 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2879 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2880 for each call.)
2881 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2882 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2883
2884 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2885 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2886 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2887
31619da6
PH
2888PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2889 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2890 specified.
2891
bebaf0fc
PH
2892PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2893 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2894 "Linux".
2895
475fe28a
PH
2896PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2897 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2898 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2899
2900 warn !verify = sender
2901 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2902
2903 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2904 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2905
7e8bec7a
PH
2906PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2907
2908 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2909 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2910
2911 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2912 nomenclature these days.)
2913
e4a89c47
PH
2914PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2915 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2916
5ca2a9a1
PH
2917PH/30 In these circumstances:
2918 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2919 . First host does not offer TLS;
2920 . First host accepts first address;
2921 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2922 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2923 . Second host accepts second address.
2924 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2925 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2926 address.
7e8bec7a 2927
c688b954
PH
2928PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2929 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2930 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2931 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2932 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2933
fed77020
PH
2934PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2935 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2936
7fe1560f
PH
2937PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2938 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2939
ebb6e6d5
PH
2940PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2941 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2942 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2943
9c4e8f60
PH
2944PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2945 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2946 overlooked.
2947
2948PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2949
d7174846
PH
2950PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2951 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2952 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2953 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2954 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2955 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2956 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2957
2958 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2959 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2960 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2961 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2962 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2963
2964 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2965 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2966 routed further.
2967
cfe75fc3
PH
2968PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2969 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2970 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2971 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2972 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2973 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2974
be22d70e
PH
2975PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2976
0612b098
PH
2977PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2978 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2979 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2980 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2981 printable escape sequences.
2982
2e0c1448
PH
2983PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2984 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2985 body only.
2986
447d236c
PH
2987PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2988 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2989 are as follows:
2990
2991 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2992 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2993 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2994 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2995 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2996
2997 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2998 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2999 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3000
d20976dc
PH
3001PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3002
f656d135
PH
3003PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3004 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3005 play with."
3006
2e2a30b4
PH
3007PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3008 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3009 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3010 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3011 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3012 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3013 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3014 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3015 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3016 the log output.
3017
9176e9f0
PH
3018PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3019 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3020 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3021 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3022 "make".
3023
7982096b 3024
bbe902f0
PH
3025A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3026----------------------------------------
3027
3028Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3029changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3030needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3031in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3032that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3033release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3034from 4.43.
3035
3036I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
30374.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3038those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3039historical information.
3040
3041
f7b63901 3042Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3043-----------------
3044
5fe762f6
PH
3045 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3046
139059f6 3047 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3048 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3049
7086e875
PH
3050 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3051 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3052 place.
3053
35af9f61
PH
3054 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3055 filter fails to execute.
3056
b668c215
PH
3057 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3058 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3059 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3060 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3061 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3062
a494b1e1
PH
3063 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3064
3065 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3066 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3067 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3068 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3069
c5fcb476
PH
3070 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3071 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3072 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3073 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3074 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3075
69358f02
PH
3076 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3077
5be20824
PH
307810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3079
eb2c0248
PH
308011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3081 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3082 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3083 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3084
2a3eea10
PH
308512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3086 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3087 sender verification.
3088
308913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3090 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3091
23c7ff99
PH
309214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3093
4deaf07d
PH
309415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3095 connection timeout.
3096
926e1192
PH
309716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3098 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3099
650edc6f
PH
310017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3101 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3102
2c7db3f5
PH
310318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3104 information about exactly what failed.
3105
3d235903
PH
310619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3107
7c7ad977
PH
310820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3109 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3110 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3111
981756db
PH
311221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3113 It is now set to "smtps".
3114
d4eb88df
PH
311522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3116 ignore_target_hosts.
3117
311823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3119 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3120 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3121 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3122 "[x.x.x.x]".
3123
7d468ab8
PH
312424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3125 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3126 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3127
312825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3129 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3130 wake it up if nothing else does.
3131
62c0818f
PH
313226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3133 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3134 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3135 end up negative.
3136
26034054
PH
313727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3138 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3139
af66f652
PH
314028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3141
90af77f4
PH
314229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3143 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3144 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3145 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3146 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3147 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3148 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3149 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3150
d8ef3577
PH
315130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3152 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3153 than one IP address.
3154
5cb8cbc6
PH
315531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3156 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3157 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3158 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3159
14702f5b
PH
316032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3161 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3162 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3163 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3164 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3165 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3166
063b1e99
PH
316733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3168 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3169 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3170 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3171
652e1b65
PH
317234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3173 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3174 respected.
3175
6f0c9a4f
PH
317635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3177 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3178 $sender_host_address.
3179
33397d19
PH
318036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3181 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3182 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3183 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3184 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3185 very small.
3186
7bb56e1f
PH
318737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3188
3189 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3190 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3191
ea3bc19b
PH
3192 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3193 just the host names, not the priorities.
3194
3195 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3196 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3197 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3198
ea3bc19b 3199 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3200 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3201
0bcb2a0e
PH
320238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3203 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3204 domain.
3205
2ac0e484
PH
320639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3207
4e1fde53
PH
320840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3209 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3210
de365ded
PH
321141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3212 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3213 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3214
f05da2e8
PH
321542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3216
d6453af2
PH
321743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3218
f7b63901
PH
321944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3220
322145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3222 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3223 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3224 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3225 because the tests only now provoked it.
3226
a444213a
PH
322746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3228 (this can affect the format of dates).
3229
0ec020ea
PH
323047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3231 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3232 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3233 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3234
b1206957
PH
323548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3236
323749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3238 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3239 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3240 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3241
26dd5a95
PH
324250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3243 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3244 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3245
343b2385
PH
324651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3247 autoreply.
3248
1c5466b9
PH
324952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3250 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3251 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3252 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3253 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3254 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3255 is going on).
3256
55ee9ee3
PH
325753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3258 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3259 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3260 the line.
3261
d38f8232
PH
326254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3263 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3264 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3265
3266 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3267 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3268 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3269 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3270 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3271 so I produce this patch..."
3272
3295e65b
PH
3273 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3274 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3275 is not defined.
3276
7102e136
PH
327755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3278 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3279 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3280 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3281 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3282
3ca0ba97
PH
328356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3284
c2bcbe20
PH
328557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3286 long debug lines gets shown.
3287
18ce445d
PH
328858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3289 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3290
1f5b4c3d
PH
329159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3292
3293 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3294 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3295 of $primary_hostname.
3296
b975ba52
PH
329760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3298 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3299 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3300 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3301 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3302 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3303 by change 4.50/55 above.
3304
3305 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3306 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3307 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3308 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3309 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3310 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3311 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3312
331361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3314 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3315 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3316 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3317
17ffcae7
PH
331862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3319 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3320
d95f9fdb
PH
332163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3322 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3323 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3324 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3325 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3326
86b8287f
PH
332764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3328 This has been fixed.
3329
60dc5e56
PH
333065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3331 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3332 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3333 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3334 the caching.)
3335
533244af
PH
333666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3337
a5a28604
PH
333867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3339 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3340 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3341 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3342
7e634d24
PH
334368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3344 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3345
3e11c26b
PH
334669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3347 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3348 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3349
6729cf78
PH
335070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3351 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3352 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3353 message there.
3354
00f00ca5
PH
335571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3356 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3357 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3358
c9bdd01c
PH
335972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3360 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3361 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3362 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3363
d43194df
PH
336473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3365 during host lookups.
3366
fe5b5d0b
PH
336774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3368 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3369
3370 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3371
76a2d7ba
PH
337275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3373 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3374 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3375 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3376 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3377 background.
3378
337976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3380 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3381
04f7d5b9
PH
338277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3383 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3384 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3385
bc60667e
PH
338678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3387
bb6e88ff
PH
338879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3389 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3390 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3391 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3392 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3393 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3394 process earlier.
3395
1e70f85b
PH
339680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3397 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3398 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3399 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3400 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3401
340281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3403 tables).
3404
4e01f9d6
PH
340582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3406
1ee1cef2
PH
340783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3408 "vacation" handling.
3409
6e2b4ccc
PH
341084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3411 OS variants using glibc.
3412
8e669ac1
PH
341385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3414
495ae4b0 3415
bbe902f0
PH
3416----------------------------------------------------
3417See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3418----------------------------------------------------
3419
3420
3421Exim version 4.44
3422-----------------
3423
3424 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3425 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3426 transport
3427
3428 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3429 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3430 place.
3431
3432 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3433 filter fails to execute.
3434
3435 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3436 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3437 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3438 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3439 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3440
3441 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3442 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3443 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3444 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3445
3446 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3447 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3448 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3449 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3450 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3451
3452 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3453
3454 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3455 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3456 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3457 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3458
3459 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3460 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3461 sender verification.
3462
346310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3464 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3465
346611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3467 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3468
346912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3470 ignore_target_hosts.
3471
347213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3473 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3474 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3475 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3476 "[x.x.x.x]".
3477
347814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3479 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3480 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3481
348215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3483 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3484 wake it up if nothing else does.
3485
348616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3487 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3488 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3489 end up negative.
3490
349117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3492 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3493
ea3a6f44 349418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3495
349619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3497 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3498 empty pattern.
3499
350020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3501 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3502 one IP address.
3503
ea3a6f44
NM
350421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3505 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3506 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3507 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3508 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3509 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3510
ea3a6f44
NM
351122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3512 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3513 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3514
351523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3516 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3517 $sender_host_address.
3518
351924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3520
ea3a6f44
NM
352125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3522 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3523 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3524
352526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3526 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3527
ea3a6f44
NM
352827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3529 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3530
ea3a6f44
NM
353128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3532 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3533 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3534 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3535
353629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3537 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3538 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3539
ea3a6f44
NM
354030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3541 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3542 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3543 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3544
ea3a6f44
NM
354531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3546 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3547 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3548
ea3a6f44
NM
354931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3550 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3551
ea3a6f44
NM
355232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3553 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3554 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3555 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3556 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3557 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3558 is going on).
bbe902f0 3559
ea3a6f44
NM
356033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3561 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3562 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3563 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3564 CAN-2005-0021
3565
ea3a6f44
NM
356634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3567 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3568 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3569 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3570 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3571 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3572 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3573
3574 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3575 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3576 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3577 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3578 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3579 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3580 CAN-2005-0021
3581
ea3a6f44
NM
358235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3583 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3584 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3585 CAN-2005-0022
3586
ea3a6f44
NM
358736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3588 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3589 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3590 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3591 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3592
ea3a6f44
NM
359337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3594 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3595 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3596 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3597 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3598
ea3a6f44
NM
359938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3600 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3601 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3602 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3603 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3604
3605
495ae4b0
PH
3606Exim version 4.43
3607-----------------
3608
3609 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3610 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3611 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3612 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3613 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3614 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3615 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3616
3617 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3618 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3619 the delivery.
3620
3621 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3622
3623 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3624
3625 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3626 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3627 to local_scan().
3628
3629 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3630 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3631 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3632 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3633 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3634
3635 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3636 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3637
3638 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3639
3640 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3641
364210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3643 header_sender only.
3644
364511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3646 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3647
364812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3649 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3650 affecting debugging statements).
3651
365213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3653
365414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3655 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3656 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3657 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3658 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3659 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3660 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3661 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3662 after the received time, and all would be well.
3663
366415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3665 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3666 condition in an expansion string.
3667
366816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3669
367017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3671 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3672 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3673 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3674 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3675 job under whatever limits there are.
3676
367718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3678
367919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3680 space).
3681
368220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3683 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3684 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3685 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3686 return path is set.
3687
368821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3689 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3690 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3691 binary data in such strings.
3692
369322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3694
369523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3696 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3697 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3698 failure, which is pointless.
3699
370024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3701
370225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3703
370426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3705 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3706 Sender: header lines.
3707
370827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3709 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3710 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3711
371228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3713 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3714 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3715 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3716 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3717 happens.
3718
371929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3720 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3721 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3722 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3723 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3724
372530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3726 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3727 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3728 1024.
3729
373031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3731 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3732
373332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3734 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3735
373633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3737
373832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3739
374033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3741
374234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3743 syntax error.
3744
374535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3746
374736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3748
374937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3750 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3751 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3752 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3753
375438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3755 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3756
3757
3758Exim version 4.42
3759-----------------
3760
3761 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3762 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3763 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3764 it was not quoted.
3765 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3766 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3767 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3768 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3769 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3770 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3771
3772 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3773 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3774 verification failure".
3775
3776 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3777 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3778 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3779 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3780
3781 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3782 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3783 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3784 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3785 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3786 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3787 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3788 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3789 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3790 treated as a timeout.
3791
3792 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3793 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3794 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3795 not set for Exim filters).
3796
3797 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3798 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3799 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3800
3801 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3802
3803 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3804 try to make them clearer.
3805
3806 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3807 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3808
3809 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3810
3811 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3812
381310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3814 only the Cygwin environment.
3815
381611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3817 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3818 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3819 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3820 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3821
382212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3823 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3824 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3825 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3826 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3827 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3828 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3829
383013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3831 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3832
383314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3834
3835 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3836 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3837 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3838
3839 To: susanne@some.where
3840
3841 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3842 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3843 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3844 of addresses in From: header lines).
3845
3846 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3847 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3848 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3849
3850 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3851 treated as non-personal.
3852
3853 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3854 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3855
385615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3857
385816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3859
386017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3861 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3862 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3863
386418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3865 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3866
386719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3868 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3869 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3870 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3871 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3872 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3873
387420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3875 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3876 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3877 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3878 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3879 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3880 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3881 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3882
3883 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3884
388521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3886 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3887
388822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3889 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3890 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3891
389223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3893 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3894
389524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3896 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3897 rather than long int.
3898
389925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3900
390126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3902
3903
3904Exim version 4.41
3905-----------------
3906
3907 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3908 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3909 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3910 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3911 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3912 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3913
3914
3915Exim version 4.40
3916-----------------
3917
3918 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3919 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3920
3921 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3922 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3923 socklen_t is defined.
3924
3925 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3926 always exist.
3927
3928 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3929 configured.
3930
3931 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3932 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3933 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3934 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3935 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3936
3937 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3938 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3939 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3940 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3941
3942 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3943 of flapping under certain conditions.
3944
3945 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3946 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3947 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3948
3949 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3950
395110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3952
395311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3954 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3955 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3956 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3957
395812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3959 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3960 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3961 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3962 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3963 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3964 preserved with the message after it was received.
3965
396613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3967 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3968 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3969 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3970 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3971 test suite worked just fine.
3972
397314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3974 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3975 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3976
397715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3978 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3979 string.
3980
398116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3982 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3983 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3984 does not fully solve it.
3985
398617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3987 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3988 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3989 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3990 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3991
399218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3993 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3994 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3995
399619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3997 string, for example:
3998
3999 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4000
4001 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4002 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4003 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4004 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4005 the routers could not see them.
4006
400720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4008 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4009
401021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4011 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4012 output).
4013
401422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4015 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4016 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4017 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4018 that needed quoting.
4019
402023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4021 was not being matched caselessly.
4022
402324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4024 backslashes.
4025
402625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4027 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4028 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4029 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4030 when use_sender is false.
4031
403226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4033
403427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4035
403628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4037
403829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4039 the configuration file.
4040
404130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4042 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4043
404431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4045
404632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4047 bytes in the message body.
4048
404933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4050 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4051 delivery.
4052
405334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4054
405535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4056
405736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4058 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4059 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4060 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4061 another IP address.
4062
4063
4064Exim version 4.34
4065-----------------
4066
4067 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4068 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4069
4070 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4071 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4072 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4073 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4074 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4075
4076 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4077 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4078
4079 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4080 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4081 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4082
4083 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4084 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4085 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4086
4087 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4088 for routers.
4089
4090 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4091 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4092 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4093 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4094 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4095 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4096 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4097
4098
4099Exim version 4.33
4100-----------------
4101
4102 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4103 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4104 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4105 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4106 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4107 default (and expected) setting.
4108
4109 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4110 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4111 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4112 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4113
4114 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4115 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4116
4117 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4118 in domain lists.
4119
4120 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4121 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4122 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4123 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4124 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4125 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4126
4127 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4128 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4129 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4130
4131 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4132 part (NOT match_host).
4133
4134 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4135
4136 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4137 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4138 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4139 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4140 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4141 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4142 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4143 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4144 the same named file.
4145
414610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4147 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4148 when Exim is built.
4149
415011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4151 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4152 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4153 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4154 a host name.
4155
415612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4157 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4158 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4159
416013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4161
416214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4163
416415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4165
416616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4167 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4168
416917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4170 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4171 before starting the TLS session.
4172
417318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4174
417519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4176 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4177
417820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4179 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4180 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4181 colon in the middle).
4182
4183
4184Exim version 4.32
4185-----------------
4186
4187 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4188 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4189 multiple configurations are in use.
4190
4191 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4192 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4193 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4194 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4195 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4196 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4197
4198 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4199 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4200
4201 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4202 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4203 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4204
4205 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4206 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4207 occurs.
4208
4209 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4210 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4211
4212 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4213
4214 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4215 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4216
4217 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4218
4219 -prval:sval
4220
4221 is equivalent to
4222
4223 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4224
4225 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4226 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4227 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4228 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4229 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4230
423110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4232 Exim's behaviour:
4233
4234 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4235 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4236 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4237 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4238 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4239 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4240
4241 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4242 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4243 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4244 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4245 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4246 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4247 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4248 string.
4249
4250 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4251 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4252 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4253 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4254 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4255
425611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4257
425812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4259 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4260 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4261
426213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4263
426414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4265 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4266 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4267 information.
4268
426915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4270 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4271
427216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4273 Three changes have been made:
4274
4275 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4276 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4277 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4278 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4279 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4280
4281 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4282 been restored.
4283
4284 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4285 the modified behaviour.
4286
4287
4288Exim version 4.31
4289-----------------
4290
4291 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4292 Larry Rosenman.
4293
4294 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4295 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4296
4297 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4298 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4299 try to track down a specific problem.
4300
4301 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4302 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4303 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4304
4305 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4306 warning.
4307
4308 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4309 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4310 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4311 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4312 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4313 some earlier ones do not.
4314
4315 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4316
4317 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4318 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4319 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4320 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4321 address literals are enabled, of course).
4322
4323 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4324
432510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4326 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4327 by a command such as
4328
4329 exim -f "" ...
4330
4331 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4332
433311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4334
433512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4336 remained set. It is now erased.
4337
433813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4339 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4340
434114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4342 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4343 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4344 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4345 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4346 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4347 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4348 appropriate error code.
4349
435015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4351 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4352 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4353 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4354 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4355 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4356
435716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4358 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4359 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4360
436117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4362 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4363 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4364 terminate the header.
4365
436618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4367 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4368 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4369
437019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4371 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4372 (4.30/29). In particular:
4373
4374 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4375 imposed.
4376
4377 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4378 to write a maildirsize file.
4379
4380 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4381 the transport, the new value overrides.
4382
4383 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4384 count.
4385
438620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4387 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4388 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4389 space or a tab.
4390
439121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4392 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4393 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4394 the fallback hosts.
4395
439622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4397 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4398 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4399
440023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4401 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4402 using a union.
4403
440424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4405 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4406 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4407
440825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4409
441026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4411
441227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4413
441428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4415 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4416 become corrupted.
4417
441829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4419 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4420 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4421 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4422 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4423 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4424 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4425 too great.
4426
442730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4428 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4429 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4430 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4431 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4432 incorrectly.
4433
443431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4435 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4436 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4437 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4438 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4439 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4440 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4441 cached value only when the same options are set.
4442
444332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4444
444533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4446 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4447 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4448 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4449 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4450
445134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4452 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4453 it is clearly obsolete.
4454
445535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4456 transport.
4457
445836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4459 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4460 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4461 times.
4462
446337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4464 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4465 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4466 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4467 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4468
446938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4470 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4471 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4472 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4473
447439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4475
4476 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4477
4478 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4479 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4480 2^31.
4481
448240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4483 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4484 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4485 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4486 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4487 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4488 $localpart_data.
4489
449041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4491 with the -f command-line option.
4492
449342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4494 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4495 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4496 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4497 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4498 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4499
450043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4501 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4502 line.
4503
450444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4505 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4506 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4507 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4508 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4509 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4510 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4511 buffer is too small.
4512
451345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4514 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4515
451646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4517 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4518 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4519 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4520 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4521 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4522 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4523 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4524 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4525
452647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4527 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4528 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4529
453048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4531 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4532 ACL").
4533
453449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4535 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4536 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4537 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4538 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4539
454050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4541 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4542 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4543 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4544 is set.
4545
454651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4547
454852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4549
455053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4551 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4552
455354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4554 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4555 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4556
455755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4558 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4559 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4560 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4561 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4562
456356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4564 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4565 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4566 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4567 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4568 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4569 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4570
457157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4572 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4573 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4574 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4575 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4576 the test of how many are available.
4577
457858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4579 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4580 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4581 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4582 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4583 new message is started.
4584
458559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4586 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4587
458860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4589 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4590
459161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4592 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4593 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4594 is no long logged.
4595
459662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4597 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4598 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4599 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4600 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4601 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4602 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4603
460463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4605 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4606 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4607 interpreted as octal.
4608
460964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4610 setting.
4611
461265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4613 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4614 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4615 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4616 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4617 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4618
461966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4620 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4621 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4622 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4623
4624 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4625 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4626 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4627 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4628
4629 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4630 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4631 is a bug fix.
4632
4633 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4634 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4635
463667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4637
463868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4639 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4640 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4641 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4642
464369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4644 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4645 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4646 supplied", which is not helpful.
4647
464870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4649 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4650 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4651
465271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4653 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4654 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4655 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4656 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4657 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4658 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4659 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4660
466172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4662 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4663 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4664 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4665 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4666
466773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4668 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4669 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4670 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4671 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4672 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4673
467474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4675 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4676 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4677
467875. Added write_rejectlog option.
4679
468076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4681 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4682 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4683 variables.
4684
468577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4686
468778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4688 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4689 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4690 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4691 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4692 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4693 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4694 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4695
469679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4697 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4698 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4699 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4700 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4701
470280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4703 Haardt.
4704
470581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4706 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4707 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4708 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4709 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4710 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4711 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4712 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4713 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4714
4715
4716Exim version 4.30
4717-----------------
4718
4719 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4720 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4721 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4722
4723 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4724 fixed.
4725
4726 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4727 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4728 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4729
4730 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4731 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4732 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4733 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4734 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4735 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4736
4737 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4738 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4739 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4740 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4741 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4742 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4743 the Exim test suite.
4744
4745 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4746 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4747 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4748 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4749
4750 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4751 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4752 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4753 specify it in this variable.
4754
4755 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4756 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4757 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4758 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4759
4760 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4761 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4762 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4763 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4764
4765 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4766 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4767 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4768 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4769 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4770
4771 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4772
477310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4774 they are logged.
4775
477611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4777 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4778 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4779 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4780 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4781
478212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4783 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4784
478513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4786 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4787 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4788 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4789 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4790
479114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4792 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4793
479415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4795 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4796 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4797
479816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4799 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4800
480117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4802 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4803
480418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4805 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4806 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4807
480819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4809 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4810
481120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4812 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4813 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4814 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4815
481621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4817
481822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4819 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4820 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4821 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4822
482323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4824
482524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4826 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4827
482825. Added .include_if_exists.
4829
483026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4831 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4832 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4833 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4834 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4835 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4836
483727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4838
483928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4840 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4841 this.
4842
484329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4844
484530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4846 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4847
4848 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4849 550 Sender verify failed
4850
4851 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4852 the final line of the response.
4853
485431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4855 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4856 all other user lookups.
4857
485832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4859 delivery time.
4860
486133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4862 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4863 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4864 result into an int without checking.
4865
486634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4867 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4868 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4869
487035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4871 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4872 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4873 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4874
487536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4876 correctly.
4877
487837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4879 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4880
488138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4882 to the empty sender.
4883
488439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4885 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4886 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4887 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4888 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4889 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4890 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4891 panic log.
4892
489340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4894 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4895 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4896 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4897 used.
4898
489941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4900 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4901
490242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4903 timestamps.
4904
490543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4906 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4907
490844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4909
491045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4911 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4912 logs.
4913
491446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4915 as soon as it is encountered.
4916
491747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4918
491948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4920 rewritten to "<>".
4921
492249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4923 recognizes a tab character.
4924
492550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4926 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4927 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4928 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4929
493051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4931
493252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4933 crash.
4934
493553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4936
493754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4938
493955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4940 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4941 2822.
4942
494356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4944 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4945 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4946 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4947 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4948
494957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4950 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4951
495258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4953 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4954 list (.included file names were always shown).
4955
495659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4957 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4958 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4959 root at that time.
4960
496160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4962 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4963
496461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4965
496662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4967
496863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4969
497064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4971 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4972 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4973 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4974 failures to open the logs.
4975
497665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4977 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4978 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4979 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4980 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4981 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4982 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4983
4984
4985Exim version 4.24
4986-----------------
4987
4988 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4989 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4990 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4991 change 4.23/1.
4992
4993 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4994 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4995 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4996
4997 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4998 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4999 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5000
5001 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5002 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5003 causing some misleading effects.
5004
5005 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5006 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5007 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5008
5009 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5010 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5011 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5012 queue-runner function directly.
5013
5014
5015Exim version 4.23
5016-----------------
5017
5018 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5019 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5020
5021 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5022 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5023 was always written to the default place.
5024
5025 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5026 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5027 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5028
5029 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5030
5031 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5032
5033 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5034 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5035 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5036
5037 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5038 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5039 must start.
5040
5041 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5042 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5043 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5044
5045 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5046 command line option is disabled.
5047
5048 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5049 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5050
5051 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5052
5053 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5054
5055 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5056 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5057
505810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5059
506011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5061 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5062 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5063 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5064 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5065 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5066
506712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5068 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5069 timeout.
5070
507113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5072 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5073
507414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5075 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5076
507715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5078 received was valid base64.
5079
508016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5081 name of the variable that was being set.
5082
508317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5084
508518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5086 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5087 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5088 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5089 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5090 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5091
509219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5093
509420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5095 nor realm was specified.
5096
509721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5098 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5099 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5100 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5101
510222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5103 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5104 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5105
510623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5107 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5108 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5109
511024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5111 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5112 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5113 some systems use these upper case variants.
5114
511525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5116 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5117 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5118 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5119
512026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5121
512227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5123 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5124
512528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5126 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5127 expansion variable.
5128
512929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5130
513130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5132 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5133 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5134 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5135
513631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5137 using it.
5138
513932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5140 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5141 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5142
514333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5144 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5145
514634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5147 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5148 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5149 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5150
515135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5152 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5153 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5154
515536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5156
515737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5158 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5159 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5160 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5161 aborted.
5162
516338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5164 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5165 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5166
516739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5168
516940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5170 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5171
517241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5173 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5174
517542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5176 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5177 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5178 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5179 when emails are that large.
5180
5181
5182
5183Exim version 4.22
5184-----------------
5185
5186 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5187 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5188
5189 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5190 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5191 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5192
5193 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5194 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5195 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5196
5197 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5198 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5199 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5200 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5201 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5202
5203 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5204 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5205 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5206 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5207 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5208 ever.
5209
5210 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5211 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5212 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5213 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5214 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5215 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5216 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5217 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5218 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5219 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5220 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5221 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5222 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5223 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5224
5225 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5226 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5227 parameterised it.
5228
5229 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5230 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5231 error should be diagnosed.
5232
5233 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5234 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5235 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5236 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5237 appeared instead of "NULL".
5238
523910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5240 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5241 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5242 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5243 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5244 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5245 proceeds).
5246
5247 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5248 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5249 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5250
5251
5252Exim version 4.21
5253-----------------
5254
5255 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5256 or receiver verification errors.
5257
5258 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5259 name.
5260
5261 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5262 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5263 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5264 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5265
5266 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5267 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5268 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5269 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5270 shouldn't happen again.
5271
5272 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5273 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5274 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5275
5276 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5277 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5278
5279 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5280
5281 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5282 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5283
5284 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5285 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5286 RFC.
5287
528810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5289 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5290 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5291
529211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5293 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5294 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5295 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5296
529712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5298 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5299 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5300 to define what should happen).
5301
530213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5303 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5304 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5305
530614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5307
530815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5309
531016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5311 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5312
531317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5314 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5315 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5316 structure in all cases.
5317
5318 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5319 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5320 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5321 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5322
532318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5324 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5325 domain name.
5326
532719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5328 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5329
533020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5331 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5332
533321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5334 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5335 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5336
533722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5338 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5339 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5340
534123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5342 the book and for uniformity.
5343
534424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5345
534625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5347 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5348 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5349 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5350 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5351 non-existent command as the problem.
5352
535326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5354 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5355 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5356
535727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5358
535928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5360 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5361 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5362
536329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5364 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5365 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5366 timestamps using strftime().
5367
536830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5369 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5370
537132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5372 transport-time rewrites.
5373
537433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5375 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5376 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5377 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5378
537934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5380 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5381
538235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5383 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5384 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5385 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5386 comma and a space.
5387
538836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5389 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5390 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5391 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5392 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5393 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5394 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5395
539637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5397 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5398 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5399 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5400 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5401
540238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5403 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5404 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5405 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5406 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5407 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5408 remaining text gets split now.
5409
541039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5411 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5412 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5413 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5414
541540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5416 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5417 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5418 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5419 $return_path.
5420
542141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5422 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5423 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5424 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5425 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5426 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5427 passed through if needed.
5428
542942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5430 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5431 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5432 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5433 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5434 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5435
543643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5437 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5438 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5439 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5440 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5441
544244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5443 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5444 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5445 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5446 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5447
544845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5449 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5450 noticed.
5451
545246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5453 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5454 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5455 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5456 mayhem of various kinds.
5457
545847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5459 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5460 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5461 the right test for positive values.
5462
546348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5464 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5465 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5466 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5467 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5468 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5469 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5470 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5471 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5472 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5473 envelope.
5474
547549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5476 module.
5477
547850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5479 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5480 forbidding it.
5481
548251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5483 the existing equality matching.
5484
548552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5486 dealing with inode numbers.
5487
548853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5489 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5490 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5491
549254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5493 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5494 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5495 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5496 local_scan().
5497
549855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5499 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5500 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5501 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5502 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5503 relay addresses has also been removed.
5504
550556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5506
550757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5508 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5509 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5510
551158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5512 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5513 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5514 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5515 processing applies to CR:
5516
5517 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5518 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5519
5520 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5521 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5522 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5523 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5524
552559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5526 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5527 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5528
552960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5530 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5531 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5532 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5533 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5534 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5535 arisen.
5536
553761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5538 program routers.
5539
554062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5541 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5542 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5543 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5544 adds:
5545
5546 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5547
5548 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5549
5550 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5551
555263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5553 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5554 not considered personal.
5555
555664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5557
555865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5559
556066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5561
556267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5563 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5564 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5565 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5566 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5567 header lines, and spool format errors.
5568
556968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5570 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5571 for more flexibility.
5572
557369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5574 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5575 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5576
557770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5578 Sabourenkov.
5579
558071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5581 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5582 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5583 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5584 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5585 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5586 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5587 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5588 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5589
559072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5591 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5592 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5593 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5594 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5595 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5596 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5597
559873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5599 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5600 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5601
560274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5603 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5604 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5605 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5606 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5607 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5608 instead of killing the process with assert().
5609
561075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5611 than Unicode encoding.
5612
561376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5614 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5615 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5616 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5617
561877. Added process_log_path.
5619
562078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5621 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5622
562379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5624 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5625
562680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5627 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5628 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5629
563081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5631 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5632 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5633 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5634 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5635 were applied:
5636
5637 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5638 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5639 as invalid.
5640
564182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5642 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5643 they will be used during message reception.
5644
5645
5646Exim version 4.20
5647-----------------
5648
5649The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5650
5651****