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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Since Exim version 4.90
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11GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
12 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
13 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
14 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
15 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
16 be defined in redis_servers.
17
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18GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
19 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
20
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21JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
22 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
23 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
24 extant use locations.
25
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26JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
27 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
28
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29JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
30 Previously only the last row was returned.
31
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32JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
33 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
34 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
35 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
36 input.
37
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38JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
39 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
40 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
41 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
42 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
43 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
44 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
45 Main pool for expansions.
46 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
47 active in the testsuite.
48 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
49
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50JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
51 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
52 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
53 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
54 round-robin DNS.
55
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56JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
57 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
58 failure response.
59
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60JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
61 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
62 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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63
64JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
65 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
66 ClamAV interface method is removed.
c11d665d 67
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68JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
69 rows affected is given instead).
70
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71JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
72 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
73
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74JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
75 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
76 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
77 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
78 for all multi-message initiating connections.
79
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80JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
81 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
82 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
83
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84JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
85 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
86 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
87 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
88 separate.
89
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90JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
91 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
92 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
93 fake-reject.
94
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95HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
96
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97JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
98 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
99
aab9a843 100PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 101 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 102 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 103
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104JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
105 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
106 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
107 and send a quit.
108
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109JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
110 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
111
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112JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
113 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
114 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
115
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116JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
117 for the build is renamed.
118
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119JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
120 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
121 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
122
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123JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
124 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
125 result replacing the original.
126
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127JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
128 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
129 and the resources needed to be freed.
130
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131JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
132
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133JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
134 was not propagated.
135
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136JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
137 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
138 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
139 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
140
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141JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
142 length value. Previously this would segfault.
143
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144HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
145 newer versions of the scanner.
146
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147JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
148 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
149 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
150 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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151 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
152 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
153 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 154
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155JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
156 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
157 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
158 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
159 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
160 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
161 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
162 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
163 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
164 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
165
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166JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
167 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
168
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169JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
170
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171HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
172 allows proper process termination in container environments.
173
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174JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
175 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
176
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177JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
178 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
179 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
180
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181JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
182 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
183 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 184 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 185
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186JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
187 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
188 would be spooled.
189
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193
194JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
195 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
196 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
197 pairs of long lines into single ones.
198
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199PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
200 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
201
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202JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
203 This permits better logging.
204
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205JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
206 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
207 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
208 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
209 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 210 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 211
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212JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
213 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
214 "exiwhat" output.
215
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216PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
217 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
218 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
219
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220JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
221 than 255 are no longer allowed.
222
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223JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
224 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
225 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
226 client, there is no benefit for these.
227 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
228 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
229 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
230 is used (3.2.4 +).
231
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232PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
233 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
234
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235JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
236 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
237 erroneously found still-pending ones.
238
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239JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
240 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
241
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242JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
243 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
244 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
245 signature and again for transmission.
246
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247JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
248 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 249 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 250
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251JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
252 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
253 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
254 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
255 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
256 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
257 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
258
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259JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
260 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
261 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 262 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 263
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264PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
265 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
266 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
267 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
268 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
269 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
270 processing options.
271
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272JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
273 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
274 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
275 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
276 connections.
925ac8e4 277
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278PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
279 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
280 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
281 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
282 versions.
283
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284JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
285 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
286 inaccessible.
287
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288JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
289 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
290 banner-time rejection.
291
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292JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
293 callout/hold.
294
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295PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
296 is the name of a transport.
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297 Fixes bug 2140.
298
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299HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
300
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301JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
302 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
303
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304JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
305 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
306 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
307 during compilation.
308
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309JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
310 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
311 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 312 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 313
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314JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
315 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
316 initial verify call returned a defer.
317
ad1a76fe 318JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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319 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
320
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321JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
322 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
323
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324JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
325 if present. Previously it was ignored.
326
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327JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
328 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
329
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330JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
331 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
332 extensible.
333
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334PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
335 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
336
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337PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
338 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
339 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
340
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341JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
342 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
343 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
344 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
345
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346HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
347 and confused the parent.
348
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349JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
350 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
351
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352JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
353 for log purposes.
354
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355JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
356 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
357 out-of-order delivery.
358
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359JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
360 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
361 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
362 error for the HELO.
363
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364JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
365 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
366 desynchronisation.
367
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368JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
369 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
370 one run was done. Bug 2189.
371
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372JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
373 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
374 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
375 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
376 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
377 message is still "Temporary local problem".
378
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379JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
380 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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381 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
382
383HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
384 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
385 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 386
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387JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
388 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
389 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
390 though a different problem.
391
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9427e879 396JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 397 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 398
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399JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
400
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401PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
402 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
403
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404JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
405 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
406
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407JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
408 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
409 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
410 before acknowledging the chunk.
411
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412PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
413 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
414 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
415
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416JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
417 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
418 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
419 should.
420
421JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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422 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
423 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 424
bd8fbe36 425JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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426 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
427
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428JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
429 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
430 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
431 body hash calculated value.
432
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433JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
434 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
435 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
436
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437JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
438
439JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
440 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
441
442JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
443 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
444 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
445
446JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
447 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
448 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
449 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
450 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
451 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
452
453JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
454 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
455 past that check, despite the cost.
456
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457JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
458 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
459 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
460
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461PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
462 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
463 TLS library to consume.
464
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465PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
466
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467PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
468
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469JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
470 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
471 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
472 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
473 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
474 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
475 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
476
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477PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
478
479PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
480
481PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
482 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
483 should be warning-free.
484
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485JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
486
487HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
488 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
489
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490HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
491 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
492 general solution here.
493
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494PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
495 already-broken messages in the queue.
496
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497JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
498
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499JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
500
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505JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
506 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 507
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508JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
509 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
510 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
511
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512JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
513 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
514 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
515 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
516 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
517 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
518 if one fails this test.
519 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
520 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
521
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522JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
523 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
524
23bb6982 525JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 526 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 527
0bd1b1ed 528JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 529 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 530
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531JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
532 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
533
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534JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
535 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
536
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537JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
538
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539JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
540 certificate).
541
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542JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
543 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
544 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
545 connection after a verify cache hit.
546 Do not update it with the verify result either.
547
548JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
549 when routing results in more than one destination address.
550
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551JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
552 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
553 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
554 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
555 when the cutthrough connection is made).
556
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557JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
558 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
559
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560JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
561 Previously they were not counted.
562
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563JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
564 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
565 that needed the lookup.
566
4c04137d 567JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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568 distinguished as "(=".
569
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570JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
571 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
572
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573JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
574
575JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
576 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 577
4c04137d 578JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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579 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
580
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581JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
582 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
583 compatible.
584
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585JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
586 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
587 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
588 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
589
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590JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
591
f59aaaaa 592JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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593 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
594 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 595
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596JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
597 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
598 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
599 be lost.
600
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601JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
602 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
603 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
604 itself :(
605
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606JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
607 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
608 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
609
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610JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
611 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
612 options.
613
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614JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
615
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616PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
617 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
618
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619PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
620 are not in the system include path.
621
ad7fc6eb 622JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 623 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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624 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
625 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 626
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627JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
628 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
629 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
630
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631JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
632
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633HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
634 an incoming connection.
635
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636HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
637 to rspamd.
638
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639HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
640 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 641
87cb4a16 642JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 643 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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644
645
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649JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
650 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
651 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
652 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 653
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654TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
655 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
656
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657TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
658 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
659 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
660 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
661 outgoing I= field.
662
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663JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
664 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
665 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
666 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
667 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
668 check on the next write.
669
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670HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
671 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
672 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
673 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
674 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
675
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676JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
677 mime_regex ACL conditions.
678
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679JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
680 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
681 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
682
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683JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
684 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
685 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
686 an authenticate fail is not an error.
687
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688HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
689 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
690
4c04137d 691JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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692 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
693
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694JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
695 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
696 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
697 distinct.
698
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699JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
700
701JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
702
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703JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
704
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705JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
706 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
707
98b98887 708JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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709 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
710
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711JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
712
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713JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
714 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
715
716JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
717
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718JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
719 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
720
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721JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
722
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723JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
724 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 725 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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726 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
727 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
728 they will retry in-clear.
729 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
730 at installation time.
731
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732HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
733 with the $config_file variable.
734
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735JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
736 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
737 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
738 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 739 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
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741GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
742 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
743 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
744 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
745 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
746
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747JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
748
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749JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
750 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
751 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
752 list order is no longer honoured.
753
4c04137d 754JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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755 for DKIM processing.
756
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757JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
758 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 759
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760JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
761 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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762 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
763 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 764
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765JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
766 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
767
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768JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
769 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
770
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771JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
772 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
773
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774JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
775
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776JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
777 cached by the daemon.
778
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779JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
780 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
781
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782JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
783 keys are given for lookup.
784
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785JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
786 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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787 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
788 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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790JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
791 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
792 server-side so match that on older versions.
793
07c73177 794JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 795 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 796 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 797
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798JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
799 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
800
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801JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
802 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
803 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 804 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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805 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
806 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
807 initial truncated version.
808
ab9152ff 809JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 810
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811JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
812
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813JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
814 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
815
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816JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
817
bc3c7bb7 818HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 819
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820JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
821 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
822 induced overflows.
823
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824JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
825 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
826 stage.
827
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828JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
829 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
830
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831JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
832 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
833 former class.
834
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835JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
836 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
837 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
838
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839JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
840 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
841 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
842 extraction. Accept either.
843
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848JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
849 expanded.
850
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851JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
852
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853JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
854 it.
855
01a4a5c5 856JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 857 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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858 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
859 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
860
cb1d7830 861JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 862 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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863 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
864
610ff438 865JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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866 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
867 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
868 TLS connections
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870JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
871 sites use this now.
872
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873JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
874 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
875 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
876 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
877 have a dsn_lasthop option.
878
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879JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
880 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 881 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 882
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883JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
884
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885JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
886 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
887
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888JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
889 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
890
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891JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
892 /defer_ok option.
893
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894JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
895 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
896
fd4d8871 897JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 898 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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899 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
900
901JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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902 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
903 specify a port-range.
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905JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
906 timeout value per server.
907
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908JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
909 now have the list separator specified.
910
8a512ed5 911JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 912 option values.
8a512ed5 913
82c0c8ea 914JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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915 under OpenSSL.
916
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917JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
918
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919JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
920 rather than the verbs used.
921
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922JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
923 from 255 to 1024 chars.
924
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925JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
926
cfab9d68 927HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 928 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 929
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930JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
931 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
932
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933HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
934 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
935
4c04137d 936JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 937
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938JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
939
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940JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
941 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 942 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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943 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
944
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945JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
946
1f155f8e
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947JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
948 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
949
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950JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
951 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
952
038597d2
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953JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
954
474f71bf
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955JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
956
7137ca4b
JH
957JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
958
dcb1095c
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959JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
960 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
961
2f460950
JH
962JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
963 added for tls authenticator.
964
2f680c0c
HSHR
965HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
966
9c695f6d 967
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968Exim version 4.85
969-----------------
4c57a40e 970
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971TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
972 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
973 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
974 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
975 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
976 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
977 the script parsing/test process like normal.
978
ac20058f
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979TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
980 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
981 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
982 function when detected.
983
a9b8ec8b
JH
984JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
985 cause callback expansion.
986
6286d7c4
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987TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
988 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
989 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
990 instead of bool when processing it.
991
0f06b4f2 992JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
d567a64d
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993 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
994
be36e572
JH
995JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
996
ac4ef9bd
JH
997JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
998
0eb51736
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999TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1000
c713ca4b
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1001TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1002 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1003
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1004JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1005 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1006 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1007 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1008 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1009 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1010
8bc732e8
JH
1011JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1012 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1013 exceeded it.
1014
a7fec7a7
JH
1015JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1016 version 3.3.6 or later.
1017
4c04137d 1018JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
JH
1019 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1020 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1021 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
723fe533
JH
1022 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1023 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1024 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1025
eca4debb
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1026TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1027 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1028
8d692470
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1029JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1030 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1031 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1032 matches.
1033
e9477a08
JH
1034JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1035 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1036 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1037
ad4c5ff9
JH
1038JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1039 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
JH
1040
1041JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1042 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1043 syntax errors.
1044
3394b36a 1045JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
1046
1047JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1048 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1049
3394b36a
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1050TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1051 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1052 tarball.
1053
ad4c5ff9
JH
1054JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1055
4c04137d 1056JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1057 Bug 1561.
1058
1059JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1060 output list separator was used.
1061
8bc732e8 1062
1f0ebb98
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1063Exim version 4.84
1064-----------------
09728d20
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1065TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1066 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1067 return.
1f0ebb98 1068
a612424f 1069JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1070 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
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1071
1072JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1073
1074TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1075 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1076
1f0ebb98 1077
c0e56233
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1078Exim version 4.83
1079-----------------
1080
1081TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1082
1083 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1084 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1085 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1086 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1087 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1088 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1089
7245734e
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1090TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1091 utilities have not been installed.
1092
fd5dad68
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1093JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1094 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1095
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TL
1096TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1097 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1098
a3c86431
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1099TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1100 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
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1101 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1102 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1103
aa26e137
JH
1104JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1105
5a1b8443
WB
1106TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1107 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1108
72c9e342
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1109PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1110 not dns_use_dnssec.
1111
76f44207
WB
1112JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1113
770747fd
MFM
1114TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1115 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1116 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1117
8ddef691 1118TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
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1119 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1120 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1121 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1122 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1123 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1124
b9c2e32f
AR
1125JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1126
e45a1c37
JH
1127JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1128 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1129
67d81c10
JH
1130JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1131 failed delivery.
1132
b1f8e4f8
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1133JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1134
511a6c14 1135JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1136
1137JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1138 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1139
51c7471d
JH
1140JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1141 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1142
3695be34
TL
1143TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1144
1e06383a
TL
1145JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1146
76146973
JH
1147JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1148 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1149
1150 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1151 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1152 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1153
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TL
1154TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1155 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1156 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1157 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1158
35aba663
JH
1159JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1160
8c51eead 1161JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1162 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1163 lookup).
8c51eead 1164
deae092e
HS
1165TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1166 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1167 Schlichting.
35aba663 1168
fd3b6a4a 1169JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1170 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1171
8d91c6dc
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1172TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1173 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1174
2b4a568d
JH
1175JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1176
d2af03f4
HS
1177TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1178 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1179 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1180
9d1c15ef
JH
1181JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1182 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1183
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1184JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1185 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
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1186 hosts_request_ocsp.
1187
ed3bba5f 1188JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1189 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1190 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1191
8ccd00b1
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1192JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1193
8ded8589
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1194TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1195 Christian Aistleitner.
1196
f2de3a33
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1197JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1198
6eb02f88
TL
1199TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1200 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1201
00bff6f6
JH
1202JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1203 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1204
071c51f7
JH
1205JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1206 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1207
a6d4c44e
TF
1208TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1209 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1210
3ae173e7
ACK
1211TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1212 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1213
c13d09b8
TL
1214TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1215 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1216 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1217
0df4ab80
JH
1218JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1219
66be95e0
PP
1220PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1221 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1222 Jasper Wallace.
1223
1bd0d12b
JH
1224JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1225
0de7239e
TL
1226TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1227 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1228 CVE-2014-2972
1229
fd3b6a4a 1230
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1233
1234PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1235
12f69989
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1236PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1237 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1238
54c90be1
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1239PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1240 by GnuTLS.
1241
1f4a55da
PP
1242PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1243 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1244 routines.
1245
13363eba 1246PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1247
66645890 1248PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1249 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1250 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1251 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1252 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1253
a3fb9793 1254PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1255 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1256 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1257 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1258 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1259 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1260
d27f98fe 1261TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1262
6822b909
TL
1263TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1264
e7568d51
TL
1265TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1266 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1267
ae0e32ee 1268TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1269 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1270 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1271
1272TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1273
e2658fff
TL
1274TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1275
83712b39
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1276TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1277 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1278
976b7e9f
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1279JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1280
be4a1376
JH
1281JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1282
ec4b68e5
PP
1283PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1284
d7148a07
NM
1285NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1286 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1287
585121e2 1288JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1289
2519e60d
TL
1290PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1291 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1292 function.
a5f239e4 1293
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1294PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1295 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1296
bef3ea7f
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1297JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1298 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1299 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1300
846726c5
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1301JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1302
3a796370
JH
1303JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1304
ea722490 1305JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
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1306 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1307
b1b05573
JH
1308JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1309 Bugzilla 884.
1310
362145b5
JH
1311JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1312 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1313
3c0a92dc
JH
1314JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1315 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1316
6d7c6175
PP
1317PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1318 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1319 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1320
6f123593
JH
1321JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1322 authenticators.
1323
c8e2fc1e
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1324JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1325 for control.
1326
005ac57f
PP
1327PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1328
3f1df0e3
PP
1329PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1330 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1331 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1332 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1333
67bd1ab3
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1334TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1335
1336 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1337 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1338 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1339 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1340 the retry rules.
1341
1342 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1343 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1344 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1345
1346 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1347 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1348 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1349 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1350
1ddeb334
TF
1351 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1352 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1353 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1354 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1355 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1356 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1357 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
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1358
1359 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1360 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1361
326cdc37
TF
1362TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1363
1364 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1365
1366 Resent-From: f
1367
1368 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1369 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1370 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1371 username as equal to the username.
1372
1373 This change corrects that bug.
1374
f62514b3
GF
1375GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1376 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1377 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1378
eb505532
TF
1379TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1380
14c7b357
PP
1381PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1382 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1383 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1384 NULL dereference and crash.
1385
94eaf700
PP
1386JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1387
6f5a440a
PP
1388PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1389 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1390 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1391
514ee161
SC
1392SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1393
fd98a5c6
JH
1394JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1395 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1396 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1397 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1398 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1399 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1400 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1401 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1402 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1403 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1404 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1405
035c7f1e
PP
1406PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1407 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1408
ff284120
PP
1409PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1410 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1411 Bugzilla 880.
1412
26e72755
PP
1413PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1414 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1415 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1416 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1417 an empty string is now equivalent.
1418
0fbd9bff
PP
1419PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1420 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1421 not performing validation itself.
1422
700d22f3
PP
1423PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1424 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1425
fcc8e047
JH
1426JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1427 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1428
4c04137d 1429TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1430
8c020188
PP
1431PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1432 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1433 other false fix of the same issue.
1434 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1435 Bugzilla 1363.
1436
d13cdd30
PP
1437PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1438 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1439
e2fbf4a2
PP
1440PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1441 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1442 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1443
f4c1088b
PP
1444PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1445 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1446 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1447
c5c2182f
PP
1448TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1449
73431ca9
JH
1450JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1451
2d07a215
TL
1452TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1453 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1454
a30a8861
TL
1455TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1456 Alexander Miroch.
1457
33382dd9
TL
1458TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1459 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1460 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1461 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1462 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1463
046172e6
TL
1464TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1465 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1466
581d7bee 1467TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1468 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1469 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1470
1471TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1472 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1473 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1474 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1475
237b2cf2
TL
1476TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1477
9fc5a352
TL
1478TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1479 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1480 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1481
b10e4ec2
TL
1482TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1483
e2cebd74
TL
1484TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1485 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1486 interaction.
1487
1488TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1489 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1490
2519e60d
TL
1491TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1492 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1493
e78e6ecf 1494
4263f395
PP
1495Exim version 4.80.1
1496-------------------
1497
1498PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1499 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1500 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1501
ea722490 1502
b1770b6e 1503Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1504-----------------
1505
1506PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1507 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1508 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1509
23c7e742
NM
1510NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1511
b322aac8
NM
1512NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1513 improved.
1514
4a891427
NM
1515NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1516
c1e794ba 1517PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1518
97753960
PP
1519PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1520
1521PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1522 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1523
df6303fa
PP
1524PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1525 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1526
7e6a8985
PP
1527PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1528 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1529
f1e05cc7 1530PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1531 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1532 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1533
4c287009
PP
1534PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1535
b98bb9ac
PP
1536PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1537 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1538
4a6a987a
PP
1539PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1540
c45dd180 1541PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1542
7db8d074
PP
1543PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1544 non-compliant senders.
1545 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1546
eae0036b 1547NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1548 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1549 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1550
dec5017e
PP
1551PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1552 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1553 in spool file corruption.
1554
c80c5570
PP
1555PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1556 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1557 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1558 "Got SSL error 2".
1559
076b11e2
PP
1560TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1561 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1562 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1563
5407bfff
JH
1564JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1565 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1566
9e45c72b
PP
1567JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1568
e74376d8
PP
1569PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1570 diagnostics.
1571 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1572
4c04137d 1573PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1574 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1575 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1576
7be682ca
PP
1577PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1578 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1579 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1580 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1581
ef840681
PP
1582PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1583 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1584
5bfb4cdf
PP
1585PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1586 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1587 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1588 resolver implementation change.
1589
c6e95d22
PP
1590PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1591 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1592
9cbad13b
PP
1593PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1594
9ee44efb
PP
1595PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1596
6a6084f8
PP
1597PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1598 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1599
12dd53c7
PP
1600PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1601 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1602
9e45c72b 1603JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1604 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1605
17c76198
PP
1606PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1607 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1608 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1609 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1610 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1611
53947857 1612PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1613
eae0036b 1614PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1615 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1616 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1617
9e45c72b 1618JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1619
7390e768
PP
1620PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1621 read-only, out of scope).
1622 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1623
08488c86
PP
1624PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1625 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1626 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1627 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1628
6475bd82
PP
1629PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1630
81f91683
PP
1631PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1632 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1633 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1634 real issues in debug logging.
1635
5779e6aa
PP
1636PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1637 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1638
3375e053
PP
1639PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1640 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1641 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1642
1643PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1644 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1645 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1646 problems.
3375e053 1647
9d26b8c0
PP
1648PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1649 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1650
57eb9e91 1651PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1652 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1653 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1654 needs to override this, it can.
1655
16880d1a
PP
1656PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1657 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1658 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1659
a799883d
PP
1660PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1661 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1662 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1663 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1664
3ecab157 1665PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1666
0599f9cf 1667
867fcbf5
PP
1668Exim version 4.77
1669-----------------
1670
1671PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1672 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1673
f1a29782
TF
1674TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1675
ab42bd23
TK
1676TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1677 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1678
0ca0cf52
TF
1679TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1680 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1681
921b12ca
TF
1682TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1683 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1684 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1685
1686 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1687 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1688 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1689 not safe for signals.
1690
1691 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1692 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1693 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1694 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1695 exiwhat.
1696
c99ce5c9
TF
1697TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1698
1699 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1700 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1701 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1702 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1703 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1704
1705 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1706 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1707 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1708 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1709 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1710 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1711
1712 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1713 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1714 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1715 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1716
1717 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1718 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1719 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1720 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1721
1722 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1723 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1724 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1725 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1726 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1727 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1728 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1729 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1730 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1731
1732 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1733 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1734 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1735 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1736
1737 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1738 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1739 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1740 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1741 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1742 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1743 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1744 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1745 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1746 details in the main documentation.
1747
3634fc25
TF
1748TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1749
792e8a19
TF
1750TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1751
5901f0ab
TF
1752TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1753 repository when doing development or release builds.
1754
7f2a2a43
PP
1755PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1756 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1757
061b7ebd
PP
1758PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1759 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1760 Bugzilla 97.
1761
e12f8c32
PP
1762PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1763
9e949f00 1764PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1765 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1766
1767PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1768 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1769
555ae6af 1770PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1771 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1772
1773PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1774 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1775
6f7fe114
PP
1776PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1777 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1778
c566dd90
PP
1779PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1780 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1781 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1782 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1783
d6cc7c78 1784PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1785 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1786 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1787
0d0e4455
PP
1788PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1789
3399bb60 1790PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1791
1792PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1793 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1794
0ca0cf52 1795
10906672
PP
1796Exim version 4.76
1797-----------------
1798
1799PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1800
754a0503
PP
1801PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1802 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1803
c0c7b2da
PP
1804PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1805
e97d1f08
PP
1806PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1807
084c1d8c
PP
1808PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1809 Bugzilla 1098.
1810
4e7ee012
PP
1811PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1812 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1813
c8d52a00
PP
1814TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1815 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1816
54e7ce4a
PP
1817PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1818 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1819
5ee6f336
PP
1820PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1821 Bugzilla 1104.
1822
c8d52a00 1823TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1824 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1825
1826TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1827 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1828 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1829 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1830
1831PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1832 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1833
10906672 1834
aa097c4c
NM
1835Exim version 4.75
1836-----------------
1837
4c04137d 1838NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1839 Bugzilla 1073
1840
7f3d9eff
TF
1841TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1842 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1843 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1844
159f52d2
TF
1845TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1846 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1847
0cc9542a
PP
1848PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1849 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1850 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1851
f7274286
PP
1852PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1853 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1854
7b797365
PP
1855PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1856 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1857
caacae52
NM
1858NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1859 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1860
09dcaba9
NM
1861NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1862 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1863
bc19a55b
PP
1864PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1865 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1866
bd4c9759
NM
1867NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1868 Fixes bug 943.
1869
b72aab72
PP
1870PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1871 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1872
2fe76745
PP
1873PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1874 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1875
76aa570c
PP
1876PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1877 SQL string expansion failure details.
1878 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1879
f1e5fef5
PP
1880PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1881 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1882
4d805ee9
PP
1883PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1884 extern declarations in function scope.
1885 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1886
cd59ab18
PP
1887PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1888 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1889 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1890 a kernel bug).
1891
332f5cf3
PP
1892PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1893 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1894
29cfeb94
PP
1895PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1896 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1897
660242ad
PP
1898PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1899 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1900
bc4bc4c5
PP
1901PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1902 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1903
2e64baa9
NM
1904NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1905 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1906 Dennis Davis.
1907
4c04137d 1908PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1909
6bac1a9a
PP
1910PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1911
552193f0
NM
1912NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1913 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1914
1b587e48
TF
1915TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1916 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1917
aa097c4c 1918
8c07b69f
TF
1919Exim version 4.74
1920-----------------
1921
1922TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1923 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1924
c0ea85ab
TF
1925TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1926 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1927
0761d44e
TF
1928TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1929
0a349494
PP
1930DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1931 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1932 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1933
1934PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1935 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1936 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1937
fea24b2e
PP
1938PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1939 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1940 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1941 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1942
6545de78
PP
1943PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1944 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1945 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1946 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1947
1670ef10
PP
1948PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1949 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1950 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1951 arbitrary files.
1952
c0886197
PP
1953PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1954 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1955
b7487bce
PP
1956PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1957 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1958 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1959 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1960 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1961
8c07b69f 1962
97fd1e48 1963Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1964-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1965
1966PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1967 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1968 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1969
6901c596
PP
1970PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1971 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1972
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1973JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1974
77bb000f
PP
1975PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1976
a29e5231
PP
1977PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1978
ec5a0394 1979PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1980
55c75993
PP
1981PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1982
453a6645 1983PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1984 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1985 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1986 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1987
8544e77a
PP
1988PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1989 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1990 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1991 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1992 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1993
83e029d5
PP
1994PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1995
ed7f7860
PP
1996PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1997
7d9f747b
PP
1998PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1999
4b2241d2
PP
2000PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2001
10385c15
PP
2002PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2003
dbc4b90d
PP
2004PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2005
532be449
PP
2006PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2007
6a8de854 2008PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2009 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2010 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2011
5dc43717
JJ
2012JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2013
2014JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2015 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2016
3346ab01
PP
2017PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2018 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2019
491fab4c
PP
2020PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2021 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2022 Notification from John Horne.
2023
13eb9497
PP
2024PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2025 compatible.
2026
2027PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2028 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2029 it normally works.
2030
7f36d675
DW
2031DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2032 access.
2033
c1d94452
DW
2034DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2035 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2036 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2037
e2f5dc15
DW
2038DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2039 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2040 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2041 configuration file.
2042
cd25e41d
DW
2043DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2044 option (effectively making it always true).
2045
261dc43e
DW
2046DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2047 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2048
fa32850b
DW
2049DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2050 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2051
79d4bc3d
PP
2052PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2053 run-time user, instead of root.
2054
43236f35 2055PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2056 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2057
fb08281f
DW
2058DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2059 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2060 arguments.
3346ab01 2061
74935b98
DW
2062DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2063 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2064 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2065
90b6341f
DW
2066DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2067
57730b52
ML
2068NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2069
66581d1e 2070
465e92cf
JJ
2071Exim version 4.72
2072-----------------
2073
453a6645
PP
2074JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2075 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2076 typos
465e92cf 2077
453a6645
PP
2078JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2079 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2080 (Finput)
edae0343 2081
9bd3e22c
NM
2082NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2083 Patch from Alain Williams
2084
bb576ff7
NM
2085NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2086
5a1a5845
NM
2087NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2088 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2089
981a9fad
NM
2090NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2091 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2092
7fc497ee
NM
2093NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2094
1a41defa
JJ
2095JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2096
a466095c 2097NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2098 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2099
94a6bd0b
NM
2100TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2101
2102TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2103
2104MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2105 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2106 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2107
c1b141a8
NM
2108NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2109 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2110
b26eacf1 2111NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2112 Patch by Simon Arlott
2113
179c5980 2114PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2115 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2116
9bd3e22c 2117
7c6d71af
NM
2118Exim version 4.71
2119-----------------
2120
7d9f747b 2121TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2122
f013fb92
NM
2123NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2124
0eb8eedd
NM
2125NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2126
663ee6d9
NM
2127NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2128
177ebd9b
NM
2129NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2130
7c6d71af 2131
210f147e
NM
2132Exim version 4.70
2133-----------------
2134
cdd3bb85 2135TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2136 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2137
2138TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2139 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2140 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2141
2142TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2143 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2144 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2145
2146TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2147 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2148
210f147e
NM
2149NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2150 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2151 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2152 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2153
deafd5b3
NM
2154NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2155 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2156 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2157
089793a4
TF
2158TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2159
5f16ca82
TF
2160TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2161
dae9d94e 2162NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2163 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2164
7d9f747b 2165NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2166
06864c44
TF
2167TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2168 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2169 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2170 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2171
65a7d8c3 2172NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2173 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2174
23510047 2175TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2176
7d9f747b 2177NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2178
7d8eec3a 2179NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2180 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2181
89dec7b6
TF
2182TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2183 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2184
a99de90c
TF
2185TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2186 that they are available at delivery time.
2187
e2803e40
TF
2188TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2189
7199e1ee
TF
2190TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2191 incoming_port log selectors.
2192
e276e04b
TF
2193TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2194 setting expands to an empty string.
2195
ce552449 2196NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2197 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2198
e765a0f1 2199NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2200 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2201
4f054c63 2202NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2203 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2204
7d9f747b
PP
2205NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2206 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2207
7d9f747b
PP
2208NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2209 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2210
b52bc06e 2211NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2212 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2213
447de4b0
NM
2214NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2215
4c69d561 2216NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2217 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2218
d5c39246 2219NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2220 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2221
0b23848a
TK
2222TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2223
8f3414a1 2224NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2225 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2226
fb6f955d
NM
2227NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2228
2229NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2230
7d9f747b
PP
2231NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2232 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2233
7d9f747b
PP
2234NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2235 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2236
7d9f747b
PP
2237NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2238 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2239
7d9f747b
PP
2240NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2241 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2242
7d9f747b
PP
2243NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2244 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2245
7d9f747b
PP
2246NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2247 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2248
7d9f747b
PP
2249NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2250 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2251
7d9f747b 2252NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2253 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2254
7d9f747b 2255NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2256
7d9f747b
PP
2257NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2258 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2259
7d9f747b 2260NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2261
7d9f747b 2262NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2263
7d9f747b 2264NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2265
7d9f747b 2266NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2267
17792b53 2268NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2269 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2270
7d9f747b
PP
2271NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2272 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2273
91576cec 2274NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2275 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2276
7d9f747b
PP
2277NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2278 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2279
7d9f747b 2280NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2281
7d9f747b 2282NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2283
7d9f747b 2284NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2285
7d9f747b 2286NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2287
deafd5b3 2288
47db1125
NM
2289Exim version 4.69
2290-----------------
2291
4b3504d0
TK
2292TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2293 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2294 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2295
2296 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2297 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2298 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2299 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2300 build errors in sieve.c.
2301
81ea09ca
NM
2302NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2303 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2304 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2305
f13cddcb
SC
2306SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2307
7d9f747b 2308NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2309
7d9f747b 2310NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2311
7d9f747b 2312NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2313
2314
eb4c0de6
PH
2315Exim version 4.68
2316-----------------
2317
2318PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2319
6a3bceb1
PH
2320PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2321 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2322 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2323 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2324 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2325 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2326 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2327 for iplsearch lookups.
2328
2329 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2330 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2331 previously such lookups could never work.
2332
4c04137d 2333 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2334 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2335 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2336
2e30fa9d
TK
2337TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2338 version.
2339
0806a9c5
MH
2340MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2341 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2342 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2343 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2344 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2345 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2346
ae276964
TK
2347TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2348 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2349
0f2cbd1b
MH
2350MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2351 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2352 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2353 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2354 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2355 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2356
2b85bce7
PH
2357PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2358 local_scan API.
2359
93655c46
PH
2360PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2361
6c512171
PH
2362PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2363 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2364 encrypted.
2365
2366PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2367 by clients under certain conditions.
2368
aa6dc513
PH
2369PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2370 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2371
a96603a0
PH
2372PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2373
8f240103
PH
2374PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2375 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2376
2377PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2378
d677b2f2
PH
2379PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2380
d52120f2
PH
2381PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2382
64f2600a
PH
2383PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2384 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2385
8669f003
PH
2386PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2387
a4dc33a8
PH
2388PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2389 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2390
d6a60c0f
PH
2391PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2392
8f128379
PH
2393PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2394
8932dffe
PH
2395PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2396 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2397 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2398 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2399
ddea74fa 2400PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2401 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2402 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2403
ddea74fa 2404PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2405 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2406
ddea74fa
PH
2407PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2408
ce9f225c
PH
2409PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2410
19897d52
PH
2411PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2412
bc64a74d
PH
2413PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2414 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2415 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2416
eb4c0de6 2417
b4ed4da0
PH
2418Exim version 4.67
2419-----------------
2420
22ad45c9
MH
2421MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2422 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2423 Jan Srzednicki.
2424
b4ed4da0
PH
2425PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2426 issue a MAIL command.
2427
431b7361
PH
2428PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2429
2430 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2431
2432 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2433 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2434 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2435 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2436 item. This has been fixed.
2437
2438PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2439 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2440
83da1223
PH
2441PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2442 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2443
54fc8428
PH
2444PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2445 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2446 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2447
34c5e8dd
SC
2448SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2449
bbe15da8
PH
2450PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2451 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2452 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2453 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2454 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2455
0e8a9471
MH
2456MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2457 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2458 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2459
f0872424
PH
2460PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2461 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2462 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2463 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2464
b01dd148
PH
2465PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2466
6bf342e1
PH
2467PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2468
273f34d0
PH
2469PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2470 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2471 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2472 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2473 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2474
cf8b11a5
PH
2475PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2476
41c7c167
PH
2477PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2478 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2479 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2480 values).
2481
9c57cbc0
PH
2482PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2483
f3f065bb
PH
2484PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2485
047bdd8c
PH
2486PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2487
0ce9abe6
PH
2488PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2489
0e22dfd1
PH
2490PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2491
4c590bd1
PH
2492PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2493 no_callout_flush is set.
2494
09945f1e
PH
2495PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2496 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2497 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2498 fixed.
2499
c51b8e75
PH
2500PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2501
e28326d8 2502PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2503 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2504 other ACL rejections are.
2505
75b1493f
PH
2506PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2507 with slight modification.
2508
7c5214ec
PH
2509PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2510 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2511
4311097e
PH
2512PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2513 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2514 connection.
2515
29f89cad
PH
2516PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2517 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2518
5e687460
SC
2519SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2520
c3611384
PH
2521PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2522 expansion side effects.
2523
5a11a7b4
PH
2524PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2525 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2526 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2527 be the same.
2528
0e20aff9
MH
2529MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2530 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2531 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2532
ca86f471
PH
2533PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2534 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2535 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2536 were accidentally chopped off.
2537
a14e5636
PH
2538PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2539 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2540 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2541 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2542 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2543 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2544 pipelining has not been advertised.
2545
ec95d1a6
PH
2546PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2547
42855d71
PH
2548PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2549 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2550 This has been fixed.
2551
57c2c631
PH
2552PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2553 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2554 reported on Solaris.
2555
58c01c94
PH
2556PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2557 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2558 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2559 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2560 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2561 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2562 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2563
dee5a20a
PH
2564PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2565 cpus.
2566
d2ee6114
PH
2567PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2568
b2d5182b
PH
2569PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2570
79749a79
PH
2571PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2572 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2573 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2574 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2575 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2576 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2577
c456d9bb
PH
2578PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2579 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2580 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2581 host_all_ignored option.
2582
cd9868ec
PH
2583PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2584 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2585 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2586 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2587 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2588 is what is supposed to happen).
2589
ebeaf996
PH
2590PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2591 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2592 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2593 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2594 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2595 uses the Exim user.
2596
2679d413
PH
2597PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2598 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2599 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2600 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2601 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2602 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2603 users.
2604
84024b72
PH
2605PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2606
8005d38e
SC
2607SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2608 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2609 (Jez Hancock).
2610 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2611 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2612
3298c6c6
SC
2613SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2614
a43a27c5
PH
2615PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2616
58eb016e 2617PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2618 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2619 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2620 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2621 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2622 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2623 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2624 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2625 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2626 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2627 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2628
b43a74ea
PH
2629PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2630 advertised in response to EHLO.
2631
b4ed4da0 2632
5dd1517f
PH
2633Exim version 4.66
2634-----------------
2635
2636PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2637 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2638
2639 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2640 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2641
2642 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2643 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2644 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2645
2646 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2647 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2648 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2649 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2650 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2651
2652
93cfa765
TK
2653Exim version 4.65
2654-----------------
2655
2656TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2657 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2658 versions. (#438)
2659
d6066548
MH
2660MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2661 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2662 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2663
4362ff0d
PH
2664PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2665 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2666 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2667 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2668 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2669 rather than extend the field.
2670
93cfa765 2671
944e9e9c
TF
2672Exim version 4.64
2673-----------------
aa41d2de 2674
21d74bd9
TK
2675TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2676 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2677 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2678 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2679 these files.
2680
2681TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2682 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2683 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2684
2685TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2686 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2687 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2688
2689TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2690 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2691 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2692 in the field name.
2693
2b1c6e3a
PH
2694PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2695 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2696 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2697 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2698 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2699 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2700 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2701 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2702 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2703 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2704 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2705
1f872c80
PH
2706PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2707 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2708
2709PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2710 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2711 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2712 ignores EPIPE as well.
2713
d203e649
PH
2714PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2715 (quoted-printable decoding).
2716
cc2ed8f7 2717PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2718 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2719
ddfcd446
PH
2720PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2721
d45b1de8
PH
2722PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2723
2724PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2725
38a0a95f 2726PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2727 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2728
a2405d83
JJ
2729JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2730 in 4.64-PH/09.
2731
2732JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2733 miscellaneous code fixes
2734
6ea85e9a
PH
2735PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2736 rejections.
2737
26da7e20
PH
2738PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2739 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2740 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2741 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2742 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2743 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2744 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2745 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2746
14aa5a05 2747PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2748 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2749 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2750 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2751 function.
2752 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2753 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2754 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2755 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2756 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2757 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2758 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2759 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2760 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2761
ff75a1f7
PH
2762PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2763 decoding.
2764
e6f6568e
PH
2765PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2766 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2767 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2768 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2769 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2770 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2771 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2772 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2773
d6f6e0dc
PH
2774PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2775 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2776 list.
2777
322050c2
PH
2778PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2779 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2780 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2781 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2782 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2783 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2784 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2785 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2786 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2787 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2788 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2789 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2790 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2791
08955dd3
PH
2792PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2793 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2794 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2795 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2796 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2797 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2798 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2799
1eccaa59
PH
2800PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2801 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2802 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2803 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2804 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2805 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2806 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2807 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2808 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2809 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2810
602e59e5
PH
2811PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2812 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2813 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2814 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2815 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2816
411ef850
PH
2817PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2818 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2819 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2820 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2821 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2822 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2823 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2824
7befa435
PH
2825PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2826 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2827 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2828 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2829 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2830 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2831 been verified.
2832
48da4259 2833PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2834 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2835 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2836 and authorization.)
2837
48da4259
PH
2838PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2839 if any retry times were supplied.
2840
d1d5595c
PH
2841PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2842 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2843 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2844
0ef732d9
PH
2845PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2846
328895cc
PH
2847PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2848
fd700877
PH
2849PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2850 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2851 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2852 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2853 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2854 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2855
8dce1a6f
PH
2856PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2857 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2858
17af4a17
PH
2859PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2860 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2861 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2862
2863PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2864 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2865 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2866 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2867 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2868 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2869 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2870 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2871 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2872
2873 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2874 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2875 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2876 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2877 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2878 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2879 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2880 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2881 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2882
2883 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2884 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2885 hammering the server.
2886
c1114884
PH
2887PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2888 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2889
7a0743eb
PH
2890PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2891
0d85fa3f
PH
2892PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2893 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2894 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2895
1bf43b78
PH
2896PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2897 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2898 one case where this was not true.
2899
520de300
PH
2900PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2901 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2902 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2903 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2904 fails.
2905
48c7f9e2
PH
2906PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2907 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2908 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2909 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2910 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2911 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2912 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2913 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2914 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2915 smtp transport.
2916
99ea1c86
PH
2917PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2918 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2919 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2920 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2921
a2042e78
PH
2922PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2923 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2924
4fbcfc2e
PH
2925PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2926 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2927 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2928
aa41d2de
PH
2929PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2930
af561417
PH
2931PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2932
3cc66b45
PH
2933PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2934
194cc0e4
PH
2935PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2936 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2937 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2938 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2939
a401ddaa
PH
2940PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2941 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2942
4e88a19f
PH
2943PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2944 be meaningful with "accept".
2945
d7d7b289
SC
2946SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2947 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2948
2949SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2950 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2951 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2952
2953SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2954 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2955 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2956 there is data to show.
2957 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2958
2959SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2960 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2961 as well as the number of messages.
2962
2963SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2964 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2965 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2966
2967SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2968 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2969 have a flag are now skipped.
2970
2971SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2972 Added the -emptyok flag.
2973
2974SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2975 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2976
0ea2a468
JJ
2977JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2978 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2979 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2980
2981JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2982 match 4.64-PH/13
2983
2984JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2985 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2986
2987JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2988
2989JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2990 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2991
8a10f5a4
PH
2992PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2993
30e18802
PH
2994PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2995 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2996 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2997 contravention of the specifications.
2998
55728a4f
PH
2999PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3000 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3001 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3002
d7837193
PH
3003PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3004 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3005 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3006
87054a31
PH
3007PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3008
ea2c01d2
MH
3009MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3010 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3011 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3012 some point in the past.
3013
e4fa6968
PH
3014PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3015 transport during callout processing was broken.
3016
56f5d9bd
PH
3017PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3018 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3019
922e1c28
PH
3020PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3021 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3022
21eb6e72
PH
3023PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3024 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3025
a0540757
PH
3026PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3027
944e9e9c 3028
478be7b0
SC
3029Exim version 4.63
3030-----------------
3031
3032SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3033 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3034
3035SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3036 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3037 there is data to show.
3038 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3039
3040SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3041 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3042
2b965a65
TF
3043TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3044 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3045
45b91596
PH
3046TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3047 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3048
c59f5781
TF
3049TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3050 submissions from trusted users.
3051
90fc3069
TF
3052TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3053 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3054
6083aca0
TF
3055TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3056 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3057 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3058 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3059 there is now a framework to start from.
3060
765b530f
PH
3061PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3062 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3063 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3064
4e167a8c
PH
3065PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3066
4608d683
PH
3067PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3068
b8dc3e4a
PH
3069PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3070
5418e93b
PH
3071PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3072 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3073 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3074
b4a9bda2
PH
3075PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3076 libradius.
3077
45b91596
PH
3078PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3079 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3080 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3081
5547e2c5
PH
3082PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3083 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3084 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3085 its arguments.
3086
dbcef0ea
PH
3087PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3088 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3089 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3090 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3091 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3092
25257489
PH
3093PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3094 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3095
c816d124
PH
3096PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3097
a9ccd69a
PH
3098PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3099 operations in malware.c.
3100
75fa1910
PH
3101PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3102 signatures.
3103
a7d7aa58
PH
3104PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3105 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3106 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3107 all.
3108
42119b09
PH
3109PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3110 statements to "add_header".
3111
41609df5
PH
3112PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3113 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3114
a5bd321b
PH
3115PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3116 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3117 latter.
3118
e85a7ad5 3119PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3120 so that it is now:
3121
e85a7ad5
PH
3122 ${if or { \
3123 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3124 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3125 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3126 }{no}{yes}}
3127
e85a7ad5
PH
3128 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3129 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3130
d8fe1c03
PH
3131PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3132 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3133
16282d2b
PH
3134PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3135 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3136 any possible encoding problems.
3137
35d40a98
PH
3138PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3139 but not after initializing Perl.
3140
034d99ab
PH
3141PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3142 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3143 apparently, which is not desirable.
3144
6ec97b1b
PH
3145PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3146 queries.
3147
e22ca4ac
JJ
3148JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3149 --not options
3150
3151JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3152
33d73e3b
PH
3153PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3154 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3155 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3156 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3157
9ecb03f3
PH
3158PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3159 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3160 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3161
084efe8d
PH
3162PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3163 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3164 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3165 0.12.
3166
366fc9f0
PH
3167PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3168 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3169 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3170 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3171 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3172
c59f5781 3173
c887c79e
TF
3174Exim version 4.62
3175-----------------
3176
3177TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3178 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3179
1cce3af8
PH
3180PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3181 patch).
3182
afb3eaaf
PH
3183PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3184 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3185 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3186 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3187 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3188 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3189 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3190 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3191 451 error is used.
3192
e173618b
PH
3193PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3194
dd16e114
PH
3195PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3196 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3197 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3198
f7fd3850
PH
3199PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3200 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3201 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3202 odd errors.
3203
d87df92c
PH
3204PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3205 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3206
7e9f683d
PH
3207PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3208 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3209 option (which defaults to 0600).
3210
bfad5236
PH
3211PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3212
01c490df
PH
3213PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3214 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3215 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3216 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3217 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3218 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3219 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3220
d6629cdc
PH
3221PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3222
1cce3af8 3223
214e2000
PH
3224Exim version 4.61
3225-----------------
3226
3227PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3228 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3229 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3230 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3231 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3232 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3233 addresses as local.
3234
f9daeae0
PH
3235PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3236 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3237
7e66e54d
PH
3238PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3239
c8ea1597
PH
3240PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3241 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3242 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3243 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3244 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3245 grumble.
3246
911f6fde
PH
3247PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3248 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3249
47ca6d6c
PH
3250PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3251 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3252 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3253 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3254 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3255
ed0e9820
PH
3256PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3257 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3258 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3259 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3260
eff37e47
PH
3261PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3262 be the same on different OS.
3263
1921d2ea
PH
3264PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3265 testing.
3266
b3f69ca8
JJ
3267JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3268 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3269
3270JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3271 in 4.61-PH/06
3272
424a1c63
PH
3273PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3274 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3275 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3276 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3277 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3278 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3279 bounce message.
3280
7a100415
PH
3281PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3282 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3283 when Exim was called.
3284
19b9dc85
PH
3285PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3286 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3287
309bd837
PH
3288PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3289 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3290 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3291 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3292
59e82a2a
PH
3293PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3294 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3295 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3296 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3297 changes:
3298
3299 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3300 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3301 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3302
3303 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3304 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3305 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3306
9edc04ce
PH
3307PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3308 feature).
3309
1349e1e5
PH
3310PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3311 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3312 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3313 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3314 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3315 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3316 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3317 values from the SRV records were lost.
3318
ea49d0e1
PH
3319PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3320 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3321 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3322
064a94c9
PH
3323PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3324 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3325 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3326
727071f8
PH
3327PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3328 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3329 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3330 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3331 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3332 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3333 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3334 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3335 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3336 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3337
f78eb7c6
PH
3338PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3339 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3340 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3341
21c28500
PH
3342PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3343 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3344
3345PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3346 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3347 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3348 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3349 is given.
3350
1688f43b
PH
3351PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3352 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3353 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3354
3355PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3356 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3357 PH/23 above applies.
3358
9675b384
PH
3359PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3360 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3361 (for which there is an explicit test).
3362
6a3f1455
PH
3363PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3364
dac79d3e
PH
3365PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3366 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3367 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3368 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3369 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3370
5977a0b3
PH
3371PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3372 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3373 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3374 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3375
c91535f3
PH
3376PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3377 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3378 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3379
0d46a8c8
PH
3380PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3381
278c6e6c
PH
3382PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3383
2cbb4081
PH
3384PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3385 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3386 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3387
3eef829e
PH
3388PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3389 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3390 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3391 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3392 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3393
1ab95fa6
PH
3394PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3395 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3396 the message gets confusing).
3397
230205fc
PH
3398PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3399 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3400 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3401 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3402
75e0e026
PH
3403PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3404 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3405 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3406 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3407 same order.
3408
3409PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3410 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3411 the different processes.
3412
145396a6
PH
3413PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3414
3cd34f13
PH
3415PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3416
11121d3d
JJ
3417JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3418 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3419
3420JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3421 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3422
3423JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3424 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3425 messages matching specified criteria.
3426
8def5aaf
PH
3427PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3428
929ba01c
PH
3429PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3430 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3431
2632889e
PH
3432PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3433 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3434 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3435 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3436 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3437 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3438 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3439 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3440 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3441 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3442
944a9c55
PH
3443PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3444 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3445 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3446
4a23603b
PH
3447PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3448
4730f942
PH
3449PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3450 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3451 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3452 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3453 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3454 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3455 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3456 the variable.
3457
30dba1e6
PH
3458PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3459 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3460
382afc6b
PH
3461PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3462
a86229cf
PH
3463PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3464
50c99ba6
PH
3465PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3466
d35e429d
PH
3467PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3468 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3469 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3470 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3471 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3472 size of the count of files.
3473
f90d018c
PH
3474PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3475
75def545
PH
3476PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3477 used in LMTP mode:
3478
3479 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3480 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3481 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3482 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3483
3484 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3485 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3486 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3487
3488PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3489 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3490 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3491 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3492 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3493
c46782ef
PH
3494PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3495 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3496
71fafd95
PH
3497PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3498 will now be deprecated.
3499
2c5db4fd
PH
3500PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3501
9cf6b11a
JJ
3502JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3503 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3504 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3505
3506JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3507 with very large, slow to parse queues
3508
3509JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3510
3511JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3512
898d150f
PH
3513PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3514 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3515 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3516 SMTP output lines.
3517
46218253
PH
3518PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3519 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3520 Sieve code now uses this.
3521
e97957bc
PH
3522PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3523 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3524
81e509d7
PH
3525PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3526 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3527
3d240ff7
PH
3528PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3529
b37c4101
PH
3530PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3531 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3532 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3533 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3534 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3535
79378e0f
PH
3536PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3537 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3538 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3539 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3540
e49c7bb4
PH
3541PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3542
d114ec46
PH
3543PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3544
f3d7df6c
PH
3545PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3546 is preferred over IPv4.
3547
715ab376
PH
3548PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3549 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3550 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3551 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3552 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3553 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3554 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3555
6b31b150
PH
3556PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3557 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3558 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3559
3560PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3561
d515a917
PH
3562PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3563 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3564 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3565 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3566 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3567 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3568 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3569 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3570 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3571 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3572 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3573
9b8fadde
PH
3574PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3575 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3576 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3577
214e2000 3578
5de37277
PH
3579Exim version 4.60
3580-----------------
3581
cc38ddbf
PH
3582PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3583
3584 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3585 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3586
3587 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3588 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3589 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3590
72fdd6ae
PH
3591PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3592
3593 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3594 not a single digit.
3595
3596 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3597 string.
3598
3599 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3600 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3601 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3602 silly things.
3603
3604 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3605 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3606
3607 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3608 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3609
cb741023
PH
3610PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3611 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3612 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3613
f174f16e
PH
3614PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3615 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3616
c25242d7
PH
3617PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3618 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3619
3620 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3621
3622 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3623 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3624 this:
3625
3626 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3627
82c19f95
PH
3628PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3629 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3630 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3631 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3632 identical. For example:
3633
3634 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3635
3636 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3637 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3638 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3639
d7ffbc12
PH
3640PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3641 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3642 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3643 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3644
9f526266
PH
3645PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3646 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3647 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3648 message.
3649
87fcc8b9
PH
3650PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3651
3652 o fixes some comments
3653 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3654 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3655 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3656 and documents the missing references header update
3657
3658 and most important:
3659
3660 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3661 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3662 result)
3663
456682f5
PH
3664PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3665 Electronic Mail") by including:
3666
3667 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3668
3669 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3670 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3671 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3672 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3673 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3674
3675 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3676
3677 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3678
3679 The auto-replied keyword:
3680
3681 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3682 message by an automatic process,
3683
3684 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3685
3686 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3687 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3688
3689 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3690 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3691 other messages.
3692
3e46c1aa
PH
3693PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3694 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3695
49826d12
PH
3696PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3697
eba0c039
PH
3698PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3699 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3700 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3701
a0d6ba8a
PH
3702PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3703 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3704 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3705
f0917727
PH
3706PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3707 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3708 and treats the condition as false.
3709
096fee00
PH
3710PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3711
024bd3c2
PH
3712PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3713 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3714 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3715 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3716 not changing the active code.
3717
3718 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3719 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3720
3721 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3722 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3723
df199fec
PH
3724PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3725 (Bugzilla #53).
3726
d27f1df3
PH
3727PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3728 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3729 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3730 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3731 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3732 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3733 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3734 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3735 the text comparison.
3736
96776534
PH
3737PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3738 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3739 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3740 The same fix has been applied.
3741
5de37277 3742
9a799bc0
PH
3743Exim version 4.54
3744-----------------
3745
3746PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3747 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3748 It now does.
3749
99a4b039
PH
3750PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3751 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3752
3753PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3754
4b233853
PH
3755PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3756 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3757 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3758 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3759 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3760
8857ccfd
PH
3761TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3762 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3763 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3764 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3765 or /domain=).
3766
433a2980
PH
3767PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3768 testing suite.
3769
3e46c1aa 3770
9a799bc0 3771
e3a311ba
TK
3772Exim version 4.53
3773-----------------
3774
3775TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3776 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3777
13b685f9
PH
3778PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3779
395ff96d
PH
3780PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3781
5b68f6e4
PH
3782PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3783 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3784 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3785
1ab52c69
PH
3786PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3787 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3788 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3789
b07e6aa3
PH
3790PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3791 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3792 operating systems.
3793
254e032f
PH
3794PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3795 ${stat: expansion item.
3796
3af76a81
PH
3797PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3798 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3799
2548ba04
PH
3800PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3801 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3802 file for comments.
3803
b6c6011d
PH
3804PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3805
cf39cf57
PH
3806PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3807 setting.
3808
f1513293
PH
3809PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3810 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3811
727549a4
PH
3812TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3813
af46795e
PH
3814PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3815 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3816 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3817 the end of the subprocess.
3818
d7b47fd0
PH
3819PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3820 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3821 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3822 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3823 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3824
ee744174
JJ
3825JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3826
b582ab87
PH
3827TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3828
41a13e0a
PH
3829PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3830 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3831
f625cc5a
PH
3832PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3833
3834PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3835
21f7af35
PH
3836PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3837 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3838 HP-UX compiler.
3839
31480e42
PH
3840PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3841
2d280592
PH
3842PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3843 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3844 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3845
7cd1141b
PH
3846PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3847 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3848
3849PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3850 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3851
750af86e
PH
3852PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3853 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3854
3855 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3856 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3857
3858 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3859 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3860 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3861 contributed by a Radius user.
3862
3863PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3864 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3865
4304270b
TK
3866TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3867 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3868
750af86e
PH
3869PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3870 available.
3871
64ffc24f
PH
3872PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3873 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3874 received.
3875
5dd9625b
PH
3876PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3877 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3878 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3879 header lines when this was not necessary.
3880
5591031b
PH
3881PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3882
ba18e66a
PH
3883PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3884 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3885 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3886 exists".
3887
9cec981f
PH
3888PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3889 -bV or -d is used.
3890
aa2b5c79
PH
3891PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3892 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3893 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3894 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3895
48a53b7f
PH
3896PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3897
1c59d63b
PH
3898PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3899
671012da
TK
3900TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3901
1509d3a8
PH
3902PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3903
3904PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3905 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3906 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3907 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3908 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3909 settings.
3910
3911PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3912
2fe1a124
PH
3913PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3914 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3915 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3916 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3917 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3918 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3919 which is clearly wrong.
3920
8800895a
PH
3921PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3922
ccfdb010
PH
3923PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3924 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3925 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3926 subsequently added.
3927
1130bfb0
PH
3928PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3929 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3930
ebcb507f
PH
3931PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3932
c35e155c
PH
3933PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3934 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3935
95d1f782
PH
3936PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3937 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3938
fd6de02e
PH
3939PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3940 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3941
58de37c5
PH
3942PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3943 recipients, not senders.
3944
261cf466
TF
3945TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3946 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3947
3ee512ff
PH
3948PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3949
e08c430f
PH
3950PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3951
bef5a11f
PH
3952PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3953 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3954 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3955 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3956
7546de58
TF
3957TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3958
e5d5a95f
TF
3959TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3960 clock is set back in time.
3961
2e88a017
TF
3962TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3963 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3964
a5f65aa4
TF
3965TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3966 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3967
e7726cbf
PH
3968PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3969 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3970 (see PH/47 above).
3971
a7fdad5b
TF
3972TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3973 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3974 header rewrites.
3975
6af56900
PH
3976PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3977 type ("H").
3978
0925ede6
PH
3979PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3980
66afa403
TF
3981TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3982 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3983 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3984
0154e85a
TF
3985TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3986 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3987 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3988 helo verification defer as a failure.
3989
16f12c76
PH
3990PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3991 actual error message.
3992
bbe902f0 3993
e5a9dba6
PH
3994Exim version 4.52
3995-----------------
3996
3997TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3998
22c3b60b
PH
3999PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4000 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4001 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4002 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4003
06a9b4b5
PH
4004TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4005
c1ac6996
PH
4006PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4007 can still be requested.
4008
9c7a242c
PH
4009PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4010 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4011 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4012 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4013
87ba3f5f
PH
4014TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4015 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4016 circumstances, but probably never did.
4017
4018PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4019 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4020 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4021 in the header line.
4022
29aba418
TF
4023TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4024
fe0dab11
TF
4025TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4026 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4027
11d337a4
TK
4028TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4029
4030TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4031
415c8f3b
PH
4032PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4033 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4034 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4035 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4036 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4037 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4038
958541e9
PH
4039PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4040 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4041 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4042 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4043 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4044 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4045
c206415f
TK
4046TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4047 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4048
2a4be8f9
PH
4049PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4050 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4051
1cba11c5
SC
4052SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4053 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4054
4c04137d 4055SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4056
4057SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4058
4059SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4060
4061SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4062
4063SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4064
4065SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4066
1005d00e
TK
4067TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4068
4069TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4070 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4071 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4072
4073TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4074 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4075 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4076 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4077
9b4768fa
PH
4078PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4079 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4080 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4081
4082PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4083 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4084 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4085 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4086
0d7eb84a
PH
4087PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4088 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4089 to be made).
4090
4091PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4092 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4093 should work with maildirs and everything.
4094
40727bee
TK
4095TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4096 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4097
554d2369
TF
4098TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4099 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4100
1f922db1
PH
4101PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4102 function for BDB 4.3.
4103
ef213c3b
PH
4104PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4105
8ac170f3
PH
4106PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4107 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4108 involved.
4109
b1c749bb
PH
4110PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4111 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4112 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4113 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4114 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4115 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4116
4aac9b49
PH
4117PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4118 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4119 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4120 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4121 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4122 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4123 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4124 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4125
294520c8
TK
4126TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4127 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4128 details.
4129
5bd022fe
PH
4130PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4131 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4132
90e9ce59
PH
4133PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4134 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4135 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4136 test. It is now used for both.
4137
5ea81592
PH
4138PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4139 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4140 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4141 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4142 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4143 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4144
c6c2dc1d
PH
4145PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4146 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4147 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4148 string_vformat().
4149
fffffe4c
PH
4150PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4151 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4152 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4153
9a26b6b2
PH
4154PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4155 experimental DomainKeys support:
4156
4157 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4158 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4159 the control was given.
4160
4161 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4162
4aee0225
PH
4163PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4164
32d668a5
PH
4165PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4166
8187c3f3
PH
4167PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4168 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4169 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4170 db.h files).
4171
ff790e47 4172PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4173 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4174 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4175 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4176 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4177 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4178 course.
ff790e47 4179
5417f6d1
PH
4180PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4181 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4182 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4183 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4184 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4185 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4186
59cf8544
PH
4187PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4188 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4189 do -d+all out of habit.
4190
e7ad8a65
PH
4191PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4192 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4193 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4194
ade42478
PH
4195PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4196 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4197 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4198 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4199 record types that Exim uses.
4200
182ad5cf
PH
4201PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4202 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4203 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4204 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4205 non-existent file that was broken.
4206
b0d9fc80
TK
4207TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4208 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4209
4210TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4211 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4212 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4213
4214TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4215
47c7a64a
PH
4216PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4217 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4218 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4219 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4220 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4221 same time.
4222
a388bce4
SC
4223SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4224 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4225 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4226 at a slight CPU cost.
4227
4228SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4229 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4230
4231SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4232 by Marc Sherman.
4233
0793e4ed
SC
4234SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4235
c58b88df
PH
4236PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4237 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4238
e7ad8a65 4239
7982096b
PH
4240Exim version 4.51
4241-----------------
4242
1a46a8c5
PH
4243TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4244 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4245
2f079f46 4246TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4247
4248TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4249
4250PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4251 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4252
4253PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4254 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4255 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4256 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4257 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4258 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4259 file.
4260
4261PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4262 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4263 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4264 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4265 these two options.
4266
4267PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4268 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4269 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4270 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4271 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4272 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4273 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4274 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4275
4276PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4277 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4278
4279PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4280 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4281 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4282 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4283 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4284 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4285
4286PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4287 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4288 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4289 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4290
4291PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4292 Finch).
4293
4294PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4295 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4296
49c2d5ea
PH
4297PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4298 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4299 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4300 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4301 message.
49c2d5ea 4302
bf759a8b
PH
4303PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4304
83364d30
PH
4305PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4306 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4307
7999bbd7
PH
4308PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4309 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4310 to what was transported.)
4311
7dbf77c9
PH
4312TF/01 Added $received_time.
4313
74e0617f
PH
4314PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4315 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4316 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4317 spamd_address settings.
4318
2f079f46
PH
4319PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4320 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4321 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4322 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4323 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4324
8c841523
PH
4325PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4326
7766a4f0
PH
4327PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4328 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4329 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4330 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4331 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4332
8b417f2c
PH
4333PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4334 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4335
901f42cb
PH
4336PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4337 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4338 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4339 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4340 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4341 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4342 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4343 for failure.
4344
f9b9210e
PH
4345PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4346 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4347 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4348 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4349 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4350 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4351 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4352 "input=".
4353
54cdb463
PH
4354PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4355
cf00dad6
PH
4356PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4357 driver and ACL definitions.
4358
acb1b346
PH
4359PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4360 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4361
c5ddb310
PH
4362PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4363 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4364 understands it better than I do:
4365
4366 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4367 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4368
4369 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4370 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4371 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4372 => three warnings about OTP not working
4373 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4374
4375 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4376 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4377 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4378 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4379 for each call.)
4380 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4381 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4382
4383 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4384 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4385 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4386
31619da6
PH
4387PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4388 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4389 specified.
4390
bebaf0fc
PH
4391PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4392 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4393 "Linux".
4394
475fe28a
PH
4395PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4396 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4397 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4398
4399 warn !verify = sender
4400 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4401
4402 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4403 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4404
7e8bec7a
PH
4405PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4406
4407 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4408 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4409
4410 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4411 nomenclature these days.)
4412
e4a89c47
PH
4413PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4414 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4415
5ca2a9a1
PH
4416PH/30 In these circumstances:
4417 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4418 . First host does not offer TLS;
4419 . First host accepts first address;
4420 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4421 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4422 . Second host accepts second address.
4423 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4424 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4425 address.
7e8bec7a 4426
c688b954
PH
4427PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4428 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4429 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4430 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4431 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4432
fed77020
PH
4433PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4434 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4435
7fe1560f
PH
4436PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4437 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4438
ebb6e6d5
PH
4439PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4440 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4441 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4442
9c4e8f60
PH
4443PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4444 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4445 overlooked.
4446
4447PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4448
d7174846
PH
4449PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4450 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4451 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4452 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4453 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4454 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4455 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4456
4457 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4458 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4459 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4460 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4461 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4462
4463 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4464 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4465 routed further.
4466
cfe75fc3
PH
4467PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4468 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4469 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4470 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4471 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4472 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4473
be22d70e
PH
4474PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4475
0612b098
PH
4476PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4477 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4478 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4479 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4480 printable escape sequences.
4481
2e0c1448
PH
4482PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4483 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4484 body only.
4485
447d236c
PH
4486PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4487 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4488 are as follows:
4489
4490 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4491 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4492 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4493 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4494 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4495
4496 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4497 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4498 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4499
d20976dc
PH
4500PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4501
f656d135
PH
4502PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4503 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4504 play with."
4505
2e2a30b4
PH
4506PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4507 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4508 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4509 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4510 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4511 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4512 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4513 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4514 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4515 the log output.
4516
9176e9f0
PH
4517PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4518 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4519 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4520 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4521 "make".
4522
7982096b 4523
bbe902f0
PH
4524A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4525----------------------------------------
4526
4527Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4528changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4529needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4530in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4531that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4532release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4533from 4.43.
4534
4535I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
45364.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4537those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4538historical information.
4539
4540
f7b63901 4541Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4542-----------------
4543
5fe762f6
PH
4544 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4545
139059f6 4546 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4547 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4548
7086e875
PH
4549 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4550 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4551 place.
4552
35af9f61
PH
4553 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4554 filter fails to execute.
4555
b668c215
PH
4556 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4557 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4558 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4559 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4560 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4561
a494b1e1
PH
4562 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4563
4564 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4565 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4566 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4567 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4568
c5fcb476
PH
4569 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4570 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4571 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4572 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4573 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4574
69358f02
PH
4575 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4576
5be20824
PH
457710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4578
eb2c0248
PH
457911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4580 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4581 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4582 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4583
2a3eea10
PH
458412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4585 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4586 sender verification.
4587
458813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4589 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4590
23c7ff99
PH
459114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4592
4deaf07d
PH
459315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4594 connection timeout.
4595
926e1192
PH
459616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4597 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4598
650edc6f
PH
459917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4600 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4601
2c7db3f5
PH
460218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4603 information about exactly what failed.
4604
3d235903
PH
460519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4606
7c7ad977
PH
460720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4608 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4609 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4610
981756db
PH
461121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4612 It is now set to "smtps".
4613
d4eb88df
PH
461422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4615 ignore_target_hosts.
4616
461723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4618 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4619 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4620 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4621 "[x.x.x.x]".
4622
7d468ab8
PH
462324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4624 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4625 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4626
462725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4628 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4629 wake it up if nothing else does.
4630
62c0818f
PH
463126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4632 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4633 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4634 end up negative.
4635
26034054
PH
463627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4637 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4638
af66f652
PH
463928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4640
90af77f4
PH
464129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4642 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4643 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4644 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4645 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4646 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4647 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4648 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4649
d8ef3577
PH
465030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4651 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4652 than one IP address.
4653
5cb8cbc6
PH
465431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4655 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4656 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4657 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4658
14702f5b
PH
465932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4660 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4661 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4662 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4663 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4664 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4665
063b1e99
PH
466633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4667 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4668 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4669 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4670
652e1b65
PH
467134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4672 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4673 respected.
4674
6f0c9a4f
PH
467535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4676 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4677 $sender_host_address.
4678
33397d19
PH
467936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4680 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4681 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4682 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4683 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4684 very small.
4685
7bb56e1f
PH
468637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4687
4688 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4689 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4690
ea3bc19b
PH
4691 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4692 just the host names, not the priorities.
4693
4694 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4695 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4696 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4697
ea3bc19b 4698 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4699 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4700
0bcb2a0e
PH
470138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4702 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4703 domain.
4704
2ac0e484
PH
470539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4706
4e1fde53
PH
470740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4708 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4709
de365ded
PH
471041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4711 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4712 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4713
f05da2e8
PH
471442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4715
d6453af2
PH
471643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4717
f7b63901
PH
471844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4719
472045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4721 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4722 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4723 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4724 because the tests only now provoked it.
4725
a444213a
PH
472646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4727 (this can affect the format of dates).
4728
0ec020ea
PH
472947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4730 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4731 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4732 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4733
b1206957
PH
473448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4735
473649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4737 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4738 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4739 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4740
26dd5a95
PH
474150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4742 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4743 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4744
343b2385
PH
474551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4746 autoreply.
4747
1c5466b9
PH
474852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4749 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4750 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4751 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4752 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4753 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4754 is going on).
4755
55ee9ee3
PH
475653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4757 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4758 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4759 the line.
4760
d38f8232
PH
476154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4762 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4763 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4764
4765 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4766 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4767 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4768 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4769 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4770 so I produce this patch..."
4771
3295e65b
PH
4772 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4773 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4774 is not defined.
4775
7102e136
PH
477655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4777 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4778 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4779 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4780 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4781
3ca0ba97
PH
478256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4783
c2bcbe20
PH
478457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4785 long debug lines gets shown.
4786
18ce445d
PH
478758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4788 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4789
1f5b4c3d
PH
479059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4791
4792 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4793 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4794 of $primary_hostname.
4795
b975ba52
PH
479660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4797 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4798 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4799 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4800 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4801 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4802 by change 4.50/55 above.
4803
4804 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4805 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4806 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4807 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4808 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4809 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4810 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4811
481261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4813 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4814 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4815 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4816
17ffcae7
PH
481762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4818 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4819
d95f9fdb
PH
482063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4821 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4822 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4823 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4824 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4825
86b8287f
PH
482664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4827 This has been fixed.
4828
60dc5e56
PH
482965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4830 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4831 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4832 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4833 the caching.)
4834
533244af
PH
483566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4836
a5a28604
PH
483767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4838 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4839 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4840 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4841
7e634d24
PH
484268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4843 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4844
3e11c26b
PH
484569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4846 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4847 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4848
6729cf78
PH
484970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4850 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4851 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4852 message there.
4853
00f00ca5
PH
485471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4855 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4856 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4857
c9bdd01c
PH
485872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4859 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4860 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4861 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4862
d43194df
PH
486373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4864 during host lookups.
4865
fe5b5d0b
PH
486674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4867 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4868
4869 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4870
76a2d7ba
PH
487175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4872 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4873 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4874 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4875 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4876 background.
4877
487876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4879 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4880
04f7d5b9
PH
488177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4882 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4883 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4884
bc60667e
PH
488578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4886
bb6e88ff
PH
488779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4888 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4889 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4890 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4891 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4892 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4893 process earlier.
4894
1e70f85b
PH
489580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4896 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4897 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4898 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4899 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4900
490181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4902 tables).
4903
4e01f9d6
PH
490482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4905
1ee1cef2
PH
490683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4907 "vacation" handling.
4908
6e2b4ccc
PH
490984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4910 OS variants using glibc.
4911
8e669ac1
PH
491285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4913
495ae4b0 4914
bbe902f0
PH
4915----------------------------------------------------
4916See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4917----------------------------------------------------
4918
4919
4920Exim version 4.44
4921-----------------
4922
4923 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4924 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4925 transport
4926
4927 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4928 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4929 place.
4930
4931 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4932 filter fails to execute.
4933
4934 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4935 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4936 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4937 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4938 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4939
4940 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4941 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4942 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4943 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4944
4945 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4946 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4947 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4948 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4949 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4950
4951 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4952
4953 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4954 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4955 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4956 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4957
4958 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4959 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4960 sender verification.
4961
496210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4963 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4964
496511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4966 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4967
496812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4969 ignore_target_hosts.
4970
497113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4972 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4973 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4974 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4975 "[x.x.x.x]".
4976
497714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4978 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4979 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4980
498115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4982 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4983 wake it up if nothing else does.
4984
498516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4986 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4987 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4988 end up negative.
4989
499017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4991 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4992
ea3a6f44 499318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4994
499519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4996 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4997 empty pattern.
4998
499920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5000 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5001 one IP address.
5002
ea3a6f44
NM
500321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5004 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5005 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5006 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5007 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5008 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5009
ea3a6f44
NM
501022. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5011 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5012 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5013
501423. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5015 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5016 $sender_host_address.
5017
501824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5019
ea3a6f44
NM
502025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5021 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5022 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5023
502426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5025 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5026
ea3a6f44
NM
502727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5028 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5029
ea3a6f44
NM
503028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5031 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5032 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5033 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5034
503529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5036 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5037 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5038
ea3a6f44
NM
503930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5040 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5041 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5042 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5043
ea3a6f44
NM
504431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5045 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5046 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5047
ea3a6f44
NM
504831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5049 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5050
ea3a6f44
NM
505132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5052 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5053 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5054 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5055 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5056 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5057 is going on).
bbe902f0 5058
ea3a6f44
NM
505933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5060 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5061 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5062 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5063 CAN-2005-0021
5064
ea3a6f44
NM
506534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5066 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5067 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5068 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5069 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5070 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5071 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5072
5073 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5074 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5075 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5076 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5077 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5078 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5079 CAN-2005-0021
5080
ea3a6f44
NM
508135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5082 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5083 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5084 CAN-2005-0022
5085
ea3a6f44
NM
508636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5087 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5088 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5089 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5090 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5091
ea3a6f44
NM
509237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5093 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5094 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5095 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5096 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5097
ea3a6f44
NM
509838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5099 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5100 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5101 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5102 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5103
5104
495ae4b0
PH
5105Exim version 4.43
5106-----------------
5107
5108 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5109 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5110 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5111 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5112 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5113 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5114 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5115
5116 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5117 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5118 the delivery.
5119
5120 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5121
5122 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5123
5124 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5125 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5126 to local_scan().
5127
5128 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5129 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5130 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5131 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5132 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5133
5134 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5135 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5136
5137 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5138
5139 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5140
514110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5142 header_sender only.
5143
514411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5145 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5146
514712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5148 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5149 affecting debugging statements).
5150
515113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5152
515314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5154 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5155 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5156 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5157 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5158 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5159 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5160 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5161 after the received time, and all would be well.
5162
516315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5164 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5165 condition in an expansion string.
5166
516716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5168
516917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5170 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5171 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5172 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5173 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5174 job under whatever limits there are.
5175
517618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5177
517819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5179 space).
5180
518120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5182 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5183 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5184 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5185 return path is set.
5186
518721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5188 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5189 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5190 binary data in such strings.
5191
519222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5193
519423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5195 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5196 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5197 failure, which is pointless.
5198
519924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5200
520125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5202
520326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5204 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5205 Sender: header lines.
5206
520727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5208 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5209 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5210
521128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5212 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5213 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5214 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5215 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5216 happens.
5217
521829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5219 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5220 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5221 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5222 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5223
522430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5225 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5226 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5227 1024.
5228
522931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5230 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5231
523232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5233 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5234
523533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5236
523732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5238
523933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5240
524134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5242 syntax error.
5243
524435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5245
524636. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5247
524837. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5249 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5250 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5251 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5252
525338. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5254 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5255
5256
5257Exim version 4.42
5258-----------------
5259
5260 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5261 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5262 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5263 it was not quoted.
5264 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5265 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5266 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5267 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5268 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5269 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5270
5271 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5272 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5273 verification failure".
5274
5275 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5276 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5277 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5278 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5279
5280 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5281 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5282 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5283 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5284 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5285 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5286 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5287 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5288 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5289 treated as a timeout.
5290
5291 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5292 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5293 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5294 not set for Exim filters).
5295
5296 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5297 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5298 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5299
5300 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5301
5302 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5303 try to make them clearer.
5304
5305 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5306 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5307
5308 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5309
5310 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5311
531210. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5313 only the Cygwin environment.
5314
531511. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5316 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5317 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5318 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5319 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5320
532112. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5322 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5323 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5324 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5325 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5326 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5327 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5328
532913. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5330 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5331
533214. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5333
5334 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5335 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5336 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5337
5338 To: susanne@some.where
5339
5340 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5341 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5342 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5343 of addresses in From: header lines).
5344
5345 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5346 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5347 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5348
5349 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5350 treated as non-personal.
5351
5352 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5353 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5354
535515. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5356
535716. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5358
535917. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5360 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5361 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5362
536318. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5364 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5365
536619. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5367 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5368 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5369 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5370 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5371 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5372
537320. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5374 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5375 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5376 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5377 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5378 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5379 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5380 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5381
5382 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5383
538421. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5385 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5386
538722. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5388 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5389 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5390
539123. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5392 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5393
539424. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5395 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5396 rather than long int.
5397
539825. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5399
540026. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5401
5402
5403Exim version 4.41
5404-----------------
5405
5406 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5407 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5408 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5409 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5410 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5411 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5412
5413
5414Exim version 4.40
5415-----------------
5416
5417 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5418 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5419
5420 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5421 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5422 socklen_t is defined.
5423
5424 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5425 always exist.
5426
5427 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5428 configured.
5429
5430 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5431 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5432 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5433 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5434 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5435
5436 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5437 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5438 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5439 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5440
5441 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5442 of flapping under certain conditions.
5443
5444 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5445 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5446 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5447
5448 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5449
545010. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5451
545211. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5453 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5454 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5455 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5456
545712. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5458 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5459 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5460 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5461 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5462 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5463 preserved with the message after it was received.
5464
546513. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5466 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5467 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5468 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5469 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5470 test suite worked just fine.
5471
547214. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5473 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5474 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5475
547615. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5477 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5478 string.
5479
548016. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5481 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5482 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5483 does not fully solve it.
5484
548517. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5486 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5487 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5488 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5489 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5490
549118. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5492 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5493 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5494
549519. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5496 string, for example:
5497
5498 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5499
5500 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5501 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5502 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5503 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5504 the routers could not see them.
5505
550620. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5507 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5508
550921. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5510 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5511 output).
5512
551322. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5514 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5515 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5516 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5517 that needed quoting.
5518
551923. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5520 was not being matched caselessly.
5521
552224. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5523 backslashes.
5524
552525. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5526 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5527 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5528 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5529 when use_sender is false.
5530
553126. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5532
553327. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5534
553528. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5536
553729. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5538 the configuration file.
5539
554030. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5541 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5542
554331. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5544
554532. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5546 bytes in the message body.
5547
554833. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5549 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5550 delivery.
5551
555234. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5553
555435. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5555
555636. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5557 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5558 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5559 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5560 another IP address.
5561
5562
5563Exim version 4.34
5564-----------------
5565
5566 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5567 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5568
5569 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5570 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5571 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5572 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5573 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5574
5575 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5576 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5577
5578 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5579 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5580 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5581
5582 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5583 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5584 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5585
5586 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5587 for routers.
5588
5589 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5590 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5591 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5592 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5593 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5594 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5595 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5596
5597
5598Exim version 4.33
5599-----------------
5600
5601 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5602 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5603 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5604 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5605 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5606 default (and expected) setting.
5607
5608 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5609 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5610 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5611 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5612
5613 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5614 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5615
5616 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5617 in domain lists.
5618
5619 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5620 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5621 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5622 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5623 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5624 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5625
5626 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5627 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5628 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5629
5630 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5631 part (NOT match_host).
5632
5633 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5634
5635 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5636 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5637 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5638 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5639 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5640 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5641 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5642 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5643 the same named file.
5644
564510. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5646 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5647 when Exim is built.
5648
564911. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5650 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5651 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5652 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5653 a host name.
5654
565512. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5656 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5657 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5658
565913. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5660
566114. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5662
566315. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5664
566516. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5666 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5667
566817. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5669 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5670 before starting the TLS session.
5671
567218. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5673
567419. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5675 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5676
567720. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5678 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5679 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5680 colon in the middle).
5681
5682
5683Exim version 4.32
5684-----------------
5685
5686 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5687 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5688 multiple configurations are in use.
5689
5690 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5691 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5692 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5693 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5694 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5695 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5696
5697 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5698 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5699
5700 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5701 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5702 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5703
5704 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5705 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5706 occurs.
5707
5708 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5709 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5710
5711 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5712
5713 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5714 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5715
5716 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5717
5718 -prval:sval
5719
5720 is equivalent to
5721
5722 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5723
5724 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5725 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5726 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5727 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5728 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5729
573010. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5731 Exim's behaviour:
5732
5733 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5734 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5735 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5736 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5737 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5738 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5739
5740 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5741 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5742 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5743 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5744 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5745 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5746 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5747 string.
5748
5749 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5750 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5751 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5752 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5753 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5754
575511. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5756
575712. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5758 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5759 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5760
576113. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5762
576314. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5764 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5765 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5766 information.
5767
576815. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5769 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5770
577116. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5772 Three changes have been made:
5773
5774 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5775 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5776 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5777 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5778 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5779
5780 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5781 been restored.
5782
5783 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5784 the modified behaviour.
5785
5786
5787Exim version 4.31
5788-----------------
5789
5790 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5791 Larry Rosenman.
5792
5793 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5794 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5795
5796 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5797 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5798 try to track down a specific problem.
5799
5800 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5801 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5802 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5803
5804 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5805 warning.
5806
5807 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5808 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5809 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5810 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5811 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5812 some earlier ones do not.
5813
5814 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5815
5816 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5817 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5818 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5819 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5820 address literals are enabled, of course).
5821
5822 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5823
582410. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5825 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5826 by a command such as
5827
5828 exim -f "" ...
5829
5830 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5831
583211. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5833
583412. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5835 remained set. It is now erased.
5836
583713. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5838 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5839
584014. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5841 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5842 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5843 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5844 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5845 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5846 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5847 appropriate error code.
5848
584915. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5850 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5851 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5852 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5853 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5854 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5855
585616. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5857 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5858 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5859
586017. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5861 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5862 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5863 terminate the header.
5864
586518. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5866 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5867 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5868
586919. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5870 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5871 (4.30/29). In particular:
5872
5873 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5874 imposed.
5875
5876 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5877 to write a maildirsize file.
5878
5879 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5880 the transport, the new value overrides.
5881
5882 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5883 count.
5884
588520. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5886 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5887 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5888 space or a tab.
5889
589021. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5891 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5892 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5893 the fallback hosts.
5894
589522. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5896 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5897 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5898
589923. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5900 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5901 using a union.
5902
590324. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5904 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5905 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5906
590725. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5908
590926. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5910
591127. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5912
591328. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5914 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5915 become corrupted.
5916
591729. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5918 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5919 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5920 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5921 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5922 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5923 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5924 too great.
5925
592630. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5927 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5928 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5929 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5930 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5931 incorrectly.
5932
593331. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5934 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5935 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5936 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5937 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5938 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5939 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5940 cached value only when the same options are set.
5941
594232. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5943
594433. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5945 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5946 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5947 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5948 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5949
595034: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5951 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5952 it is clearly obsolete.
5953
595435. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5955 transport.
5956
595736. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5958 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5959 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5960 times.
5961
596237. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5963 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5964 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5965 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5966 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5967
596838. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5969 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5970 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5971 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5972
597339. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5974
5975 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5976
5977 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5978 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5979 2^31.
5980
598140. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5982 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5983 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5984 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5985 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5986 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5987 $localpart_data.
5988
598941. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5990 with the -f command-line option.
5991
599242. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5993 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5994 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5995 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5996 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5997 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5998
599943. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6000 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6001 line.
6002
600344. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6004 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6005 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6006 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6007 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6008 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6009 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6010 buffer is too small.
6011
601245. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6013 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6014
601546. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6016 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6017 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6018 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6019 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6020 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6021 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6022 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6023 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6024
602547. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6026 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6027 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6028
602948. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6030 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6031 ACL").
6032
603349. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6034 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6035 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6036 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6037 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6038
603950. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6040 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6041 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6042 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6043 is set.
6044
604551. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6046
604752. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6048
604953. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6050 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6051
605254. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6053 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6054 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6055
605655. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6057 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6058 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6059 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6060 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6061
606256. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6063 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6064 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6065 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6066 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6067 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6068 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6069
607057. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6071 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6072 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6073 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6074 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6075 the test of how many are available.
6076
607758. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6078 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6079 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6080 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6081 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6082 new message is started.
6083
608459. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6085 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6086
608760. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6088 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6089
609061. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6091 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6092 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6093 is no long logged.
6094
609562. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6096 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6097 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6098 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6099 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6100 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6101 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6102
610363. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6104 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6105 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6106 interpreted as octal.
6107
610864. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6109 setting.
6110
611165. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6112 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6113 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6114 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6115 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6116 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6117
611866. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6119 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6120 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6121 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6122
6123 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6124 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6125 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6126 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6127
6128 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6129 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6130 is a bug fix.
6131
6132 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6133 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6134
613567. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6136
613768. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6138 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6139 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6140 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6141
614269. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6143 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6144 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6145 supplied", which is not helpful.
6146
614770. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6148 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6149 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6150
615171. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6152 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6153 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6154 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6155 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6156 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6157 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6158 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6159
616072. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6161 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6162 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6163 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6164 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6165
616673. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6167 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6168 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6169 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6170 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6171 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6172
617374. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6174 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6175 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6176
617775. Added write_rejectlog option.
6178
617976. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6180 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6181 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6182 variables.
6183
618477. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6185
618678. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6187 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6188 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6189 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6190 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6191 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6192 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6193 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6194
619579. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6196 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6197 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6198 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6199 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6200
620180. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6202 Haardt.
6203
620481. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6205 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6206 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6207 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6208 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6209 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6210 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6211 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6212 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6213
6214
6215Exim version 4.30
6216-----------------
6217
6218 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6219 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6220 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6221
6222 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6223 fixed.
6224
6225 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6226 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6227 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6228
6229 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6230 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6231 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6232 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6233 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6234 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6235
6236 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6237 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6238 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6239 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6240 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6241 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6242 the Exim test suite.
6243
6244 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6245 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6246 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6247 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6248
6249 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6250 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6251 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6252 specify it in this variable.
6253
6254 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6255 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6256 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6257 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6258
6259 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6260 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6261 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6262 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6263
6264 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6265 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6266 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6267 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6268 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6269
6270 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6271
627210. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6273 they are logged.
6274
627511. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6276 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6277 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6278 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6279 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6280
628112. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6282 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6283
628413. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6285 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6286 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6287 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6288 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6289
629014. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6291 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6292
629315. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6294 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6295 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6296
629716. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6298 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6299
630017. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6301 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6302
630318. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6304 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6305 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6306
630719. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6308 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6309
631020. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6311 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6312 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6313 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6314
631521. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6316
631722. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6318 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6319 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6320 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6321
632223. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6323
632424. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6325 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6326
632725. Added .include_if_exists.
6328
632926. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6330 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6331 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6332 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6333 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6334 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6335
633627. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6337
633828. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6339 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6340 this.
6341
634229. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6343
634430. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6345 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6346
6347 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6348 550 Sender verify failed
6349
6350 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6351 the final line of the response.
6352
635331. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6354 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6355 all other user lookups.
6356
635732. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6358 delivery time.
6359
636033. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6361 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6362 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6363 result into an int without checking.
6364
636534. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6366 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6367 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
495ae4b0
PH
6368
636935. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6370 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6371 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6372 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6373
637436. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6375 correctly.
6376
637737. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6378 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6379
638038. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6381 to the empty sender.
6382
638339. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6384 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6385 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6386 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6387 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6388 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6389 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6390 panic log.
6391
639240. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6393 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6394 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6395 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6396 used.
6397
639841. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6399 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6400
640142. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6402 timestamps.
6403
640443. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6405 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6406
640744. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6408
640945. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6410 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6411 logs.
6412
641346. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6414 as soon as it is encountered.
6415
641647. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6417
641848. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6419 rewritten to "<>".
6420
642149. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6422 recognizes a tab character.
6423
642450. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6425 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6426 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6427 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6428
642951. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6430
643152. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6432 crash.
6433
643453. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6435
643654. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6437
643855. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6439 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6440 2822.
6441
644256. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6443 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6444 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6445 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6446 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6447
644857. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6449 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6450
645158. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6452 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6453 list (.included file names were always shown).
6454
645559. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6456 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6457 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6458 root at that time.
6459
646060. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6461 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6462
646361. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6464
646562. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6466
646763. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6468
646964. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6470 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6471 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6472 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6473 failures to open the logs.
6474
647565. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6476 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6477 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6478 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6479 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6480 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6481 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6482
6483
6484Exim version 4.24
6485-----------------
6486
6487 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6488 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6489 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6490 change 4.23/1.
6491
6492 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6493 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6494 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6495
6496 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6497 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6498 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6499
6500 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6501 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6502 causing some misleading effects.
6503
6504 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6505 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6506 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6507
6508 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6509 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6510 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6511 queue-runner function directly.
6512
6513
6514Exim version 4.23
6515-----------------
6516
6517 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6518 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6519
6520 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6521 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6522 was always written to the default place.
6523
6524 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6525 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6526 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6527
6528 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6529
6530 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6531
6532 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6533 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6534 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6535
6536 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6537 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6538 must start.
6539
6540 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6541 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6542 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6543
6544 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6545 command line option is disabled.
6546
6547 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6548 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6549
6550 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6551
6552 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6553
6554 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6555 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6556
655710. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6558
655911. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6560 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6561 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6562 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6563 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6564 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6565
656612. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6567 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6568 timeout.
6569
657013. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6571 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6572
657314. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6574 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6575
657615. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6577 received was valid base64.
6578
657916. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6580 name of the variable that was being set.
6581
658217. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6583
658418. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6585 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6586 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6587 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6588 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6589 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6590
659119. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6592
659320. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6594 nor realm was specified.
6595
659621. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6597 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6598 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6599 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6600
660122. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6602 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6603 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6604
660523. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6606 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6607 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6608
660924. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6610 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6611 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6612 some systems use these upper case variants.
6613
661425. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6615 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6616 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6617 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6618
661926. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6620
662127. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6622 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6623
662428. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6625 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6626 expansion variable.
6627
662829. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6629
663030. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6631 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6632 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6633 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6634
663531. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6636 using it.
6637
663832. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6639 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6640 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6641
664233. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6643 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6644
664534. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6646 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6647 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6648 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6649
665035. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6651 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6652 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6653
665436. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6655
665637. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6657 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6658 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6659 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6660 aborted.
6661
666238. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6663 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6664 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6665
666639. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6667
666840. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6669 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6670
667141. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6672 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6673
667442. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6675 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6676 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6677 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6678 when emails are that large.
6679
6680
6681
6682Exim version 4.22
6683-----------------
6684
6685 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6686 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6687
6688 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6689 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6690 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6691
6692 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6693 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6694 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6695
6696 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6697 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6698 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6699 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6700 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6701
6702 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6703 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6704 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6705 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6706 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6707 ever.
6708
6709 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6710 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6711 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6712 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6713 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6714 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6715 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6716 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6717 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6718 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6719 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6720 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6721 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6722 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6723
6724 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6725 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6726 parameterised it.
6727
6728 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6729 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6730 error should be diagnosed.
6731
6732 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6733 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6734 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6735 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6736 appeared instead of "NULL".
6737
673810. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6739 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6740 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6741 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6742 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6743 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6744 proceeds).
6745
6746 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6747 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6748 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6749
6750
6751Exim version 4.21
6752-----------------
6753
6754 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6755 or receiver verification errors.
6756
6757 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6758 name.
6759
6760 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6761 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6762 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6763 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6764
6765 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6766 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6767 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6768 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6769 shouldn't happen again.
6770
6771 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6772 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6773 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6774
6775 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6776 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6777
6778 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6779
6780 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6781 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6782
6783 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6784 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6785 RFC.
6786
678710. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6788 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6789 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6790
679111. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6792 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6793 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6794 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6795
679612. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6797 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6798 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6799 to define what should happen).
6800
680113. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6802 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6803 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6804
680514. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6806
680715. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6808
680916. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6810 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6811
4c04137d 681217. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
6813 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6814 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6815 structure in all cases.
6816
6817 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6818 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6819 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6820 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6821
682218. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6823 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6824 domain name.
6825
682619. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6827 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6828
682920. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6830 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6831
683221. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6833 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6834 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6835
683622. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6837 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6838 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6839
684023. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6841 the book and for uniformity.
6842
684324. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6844
684525. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6846 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
6847 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6848 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6849 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6850 non-existent command as the problem.
6851
685226. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6853 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6854 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6855
685627. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6857
685828. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6859 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6860 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6861
686229. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6863 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6864 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6865 timestamps using strftime().
6866
686730. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6868 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6869
687032. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6871 transport-time rewrites.
6872
687333. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6874 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6875 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6876 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6877
687834. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6879 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6880
688135. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6882 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6883 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6884 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6885 comma and a space.
6886
688736. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6888 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6889 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6890 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6891 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6892 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6893 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6894
689537. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6896 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6897 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6898 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6899 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6900
690138. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6902 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6903 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6904 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6905 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6906 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6907 remaining text gets split now.
6908
690939. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6910 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6911 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6912 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6913
691440. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6915 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6916 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6917 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6918 $return_path.
6919
692041. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6921 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6922 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6923 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6924 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6925 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6926 passed through if needed.
6927
692842. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6929 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6930 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6931 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6932 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6933 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6934
693543. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6936 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6937 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6938 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6939 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6940
694144. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6942 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6943 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6944 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6945 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6946
694745. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6948 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6949 noticed.
6950
695146. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6952 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6953 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6954 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6955 mayhem of various kinds.
6956
695747. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6958 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6959 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
6960 the right test for positive values.
6961
696248. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6963 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6964 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6965 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6966 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6967 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6968 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6969 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6970 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6971 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6972 envelope.
6973
697449. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6975 module.
6976
697750. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6978 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6979 forbidding it.
6980
698151. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6982 the existing equality matching.
6983
698452. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6985 dealing with inode numbers.
6986
698753. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6988 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6989 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6990
699154. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6992 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6993 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6994 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6995 local_scan().
6996
699755. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6998 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6999 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7000 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7001 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7002 relay addresses has also been removed.
7003
700456. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7005
700657. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7007 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7008 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7009
701058. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7011 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7012 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7013 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7014 processing applies to CR:
7015
7016 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7017 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7018
7019 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7020 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7021 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7022 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7023
702459. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7025 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7026 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7027
702860. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7029 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7030 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7031 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7032 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7033 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7034 arisen.
7035
703661. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7037 program routers.
7038
703962. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7040 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7041 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7042 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7043 adds:
7044
7045 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7046
7047 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7048
7049 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7050
705163. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7052 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7053 not considered personal.
7054
705564. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7056
705765. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7058
705966. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7060
706167. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7062 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7063 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7064 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7065 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7066 header lines, and spool format errors.
7067
706868. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7069 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7070 for more flexibility.
7071
707269. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7073 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7074 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7075
707670. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7077 Sabourenkov.
7078
707971. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7080 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7081 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7082 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7083 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7084 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7085 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7086 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7087 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7088
708972. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7090 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7091 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7092 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7093 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7094 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7095 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7096
709773. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7098 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7099 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7100
710174. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7102 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7103 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7104 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7105 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7106 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7107 instead of killing the process with assert().
7108
710975. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7110 than Unicode encoding.
7111
711276. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7113 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7114 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7115 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7116
711777. Added process_log_path.
7118
711978. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7120 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7121
712279. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7123 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7124
712580. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7126 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7127 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7128
712981. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7130 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7131 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7132 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7133 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7134 were applied:
7135
7136 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7137 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7138 as invalid.
7139
714082. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7141 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7142 they will be used during message reception.
7143
7144
7145Exim version 4.20
7146-----------------
7147
7148The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7149
7150****