TLS1.2 and TLS1.1 support with GnuTLS
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.77
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6
7PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
8 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
9
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10TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
11
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12TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
13 whitespace trailer
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15TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
16 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
17
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18TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
19 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
20 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
21
22 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
23 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
24 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
25 not safe for signals.
26
27 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
28 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
29 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
30 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
31 exiwhat.
32
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33TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
34
35 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
36 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
37 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
38 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
39 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
40
41 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
42 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
43 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
44 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
45 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
46 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
47
48 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
49 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
50 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
51 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
52
53 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
54 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
55 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
56 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
57
58 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
59 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
60 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
61 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
62 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
63 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
64 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
65 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
66 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
67
68 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
69 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
70 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
71 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
72
73 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
74 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
75 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
76 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
77 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
78 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
79 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
80 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
81 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
82 details in the main documentation.
83
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84TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
85
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86TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
87
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88TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
89 repository when doing development or release builds.
90
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91PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
92 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 93
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94PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
95 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
96 Bugzilla 97.
97
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98PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
99
9e949f00 100PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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101 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
102
103PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
104 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 105
555ae6af 106PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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107 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
108
109PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
110 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 111
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112PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
113 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
114
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115PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
116 Bugzilla 1156.
117
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119Exim version 4.76
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121
122PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
123
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124PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
125 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
126
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127PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
128
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129PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
130
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131PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
132 Bugzilla 1098.
133
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134PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
135 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 136
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137TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
138 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
139
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140PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
141 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
142
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143PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
144 Bugzilla 1104.
145
c8d52a00 146TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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147 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
148
149TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
150 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
151 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
152 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
153
154PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
155 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
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158Exim version 4.75
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160
4c9ef03a 161NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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162 Bugzilla 1073
163
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164TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
165 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
166 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
167
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168TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
169 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
170
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171PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
172 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
173 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
174
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175PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
176 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
177
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178PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
179 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
180
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181NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
182 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
183
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184NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
185 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
186
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187PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
188 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 189
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190NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
191 Fixes bug 943.
192
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193PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
194 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
195
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196PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
197 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
198
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199PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
200 SQL string expansion failure details.
201 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
202
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203PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
204 Patch from Simon Arlott.
205
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206PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
207 extern declarations in function scope.
208 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
209
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210PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
211 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
212 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
213 a kernel bug).
214
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215PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
216 Patch from Mark Zealey.
217
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218PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
219 Patch from Mark Zealey.
220
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221PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
222 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
223
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224PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
225 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
226
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227NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
228 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
229 Dennis Davis.
230
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231PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
232
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233PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
234
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235NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
236 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 237
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238TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
239 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
240
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245TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
246 consequences so log it to the panic log.
247
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248TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
249 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
250
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251TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
252
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253DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
254 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
255 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
256
257PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
258 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
259 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
260
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261PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
262 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
263 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
264 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
265
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266PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
267 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
268 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
269 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
270
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271PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
272 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
273 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
274 arbitrary files.
275
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276PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
277 (Wolfgang Breyha)
278
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279PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
280 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
281 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
282 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
283 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
284
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288
289PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
290 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
291 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
292
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293PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
294 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
295
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296JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
297
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298PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
299
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300PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
301
ec5a0394 302PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 303
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304PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
305
453a6645 306PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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307 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
308 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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309 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
310
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311PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
312 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
313 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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314 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
315 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 316
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317PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
318
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319PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
320
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321PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
322
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323PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
324
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325PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
326
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327PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
328
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329PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
330
6a8de854 331PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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332 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
333 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 334
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335JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
336
337JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
338 "exim" to be used
55c75993 339
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340PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
341 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
342
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343PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
344 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
345 Notification from John Horne.
346
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347PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
348 compatible.
349
350PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
351 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
352 it normally works.
353
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354DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
355 access.
356
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357DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
358 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
359 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
360
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361DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
362 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
363 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
364 configuration file.
365
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366DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
367 option (effectively making it always true).
368
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369DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
370 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
371
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372DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
373 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
374
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375PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
376 run-time user, instead of root.
377
43236f35 378PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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379 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
380
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381DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
382 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
383 arguments.
3346ab01 384
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385DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
386 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
387 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
388
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389DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
390
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391NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
392
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394Exim version 4.72
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396
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397JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
398 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
399 typos
465e92cf 400
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401JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
402 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
403 (Finput)
edae0343 404
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405NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
406 Patch from Alain Williams
407
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408NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
409
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410NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
411 Patch from Andreas Metzler
412
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413NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
414 Patch from Kirill Miazine
415
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416NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
417
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418JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
419
a466095c 420NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 421 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 422
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423TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
424
425TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
426
427MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
428 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
429 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
430
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431NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
432 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 433
b26eacf1 434NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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435 Patch by Simon Arlott
436
179c5980 437PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 438 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 439
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443
7d9f747b 444TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 445
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446NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
447
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448NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
449
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450NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
451
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452NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
453
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455Exim version 4.70
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457
cdd3bb85 458TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 459 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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460
461TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
462 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 463 Hirsch).
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465TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
466 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 467 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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469TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
470 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
471
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472NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
473 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
474 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
475 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
476
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477NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
478 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 479 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 480
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481TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
482
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483TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
484
dae9d94e 485NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 486 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 487
7d9f747b 488NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 489
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490TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
491 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
492 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
493 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
494
65a7d8c3 495NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 496 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 497
23510047 498TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 499
7d9f747b 500NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 501
7d8eec3a 502NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 503 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 504
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505TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
506 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 507
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508TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
509 that they are available at delivery time.
510
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511TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
512
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513TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
514 incoming_port log selectors.
515
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516TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
517 setting expands to an empty string.
518
ce552449 519NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 520 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 521
e765a0f1 522NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 523 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 524
4f054c63 525NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 526 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 527
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528NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
529 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 530
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531NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
532 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 533
b52bc06e 534NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 535 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 536
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537NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
538
4c69d561 539NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 540 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 541
d5c39246 542NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 543 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 544
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545TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
546
8f3414a1 547NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 548 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 549
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550NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
551
552NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 553
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554NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
555 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 556
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557NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
558 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 559
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560NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
561 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 562
7d9f747b
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563NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
564 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 565
7d9f747b
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566NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
567 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 568
7d9f747b
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569NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
570 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 571
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572NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
573 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 574
7d9f747b 575NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 576 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 577
7d9f747b 578NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 579
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580NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
581 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 582
7d9f747b 583NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 584
7d9f747b 585NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 586
7d9f747b 587NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 588
7d9f747b 589NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 590
17792b53 591NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 592 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 593
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594NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
595 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 596
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597NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
598 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 599
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600NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
601 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 602
7d9f747b 603NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 604
7d9f747b 605NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 606
7d9f747b 607NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 608
7d9f747b 609NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 610
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614
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615TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
616 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
617 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
618
619 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
620 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
621 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
622 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
623 build errors in sieve.c.
624
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625NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
626 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
627 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
628
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629SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
630
7d9f747b 631NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 632
7d9f747b 633NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 634
7d9f747b 635NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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636
637
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638Exim version 4.68
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640
641PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
642
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643PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
644 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
645 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
646 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
647 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
648 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
649 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
650 for iplsearch lookups.
651
652 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
653 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
654 previously such lookups could never work.
655
656 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
657 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
658 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
659
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660TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
661 version.
662
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663MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
664 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
665 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
666 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
667 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
668 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
669
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670TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
671 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
672
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673MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
674 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
675 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
676 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
677 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
678 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
679
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680PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
681 local_scan API.
682
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683PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
684
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685PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
686 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
687 encrypted.
688
689PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
690 by clients under certain conditions.
691
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692PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
693 "_responses" off the end of the name.
694
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695PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
696
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697PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
698 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
699
700PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
701
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702PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
703
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704PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
705
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706PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
707 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
708
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709PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
710
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711PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
712 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
713
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714PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
715
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716PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
717
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718PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
719 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
720 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
721 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 722
ddea74fa 723PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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724 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
725 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
726
ddea74fa 727PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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728 and InterBase are left for another time.)
729
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730PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
731
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732PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
733
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734PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
735
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736PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
737 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
738 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
739
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741Exim version 4.67
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743
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744MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
745 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
746 Jan Srzednicki.
747
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748PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
749 issue a MAIL command.
750
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751PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
752
753 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
754
755 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
756 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
757 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
758 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
759 item. This has been fixed.
760
761PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
762 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
763
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764PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
765 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
766
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767PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
768 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
769 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
770
34c5e8dd
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771SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
772
bbe15da8
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773PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
774 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
775 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
776 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
777 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
778
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779MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
780 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
781 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
782
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783PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
784 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
785 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
786 the server_setid option was incorrect.
787
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788PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
789
6bf342e1
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790PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
791
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792PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
793 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
794 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
795 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
796 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
797
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798PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
799
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800PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
801 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
802 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
803 values).
804
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805PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
806
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807PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
808
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809PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
810
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811PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
812
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813PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
814
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815PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
816 no_callout_flush is set.
817
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818PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
819 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
820 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
821 fixed.
822
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823PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
824
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825PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
826 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
827 other ACL rejections are.
828
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829PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
830 with slight modification.
831
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832PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
833 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
834
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835PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
836 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
837 connection.
838
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839PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
840 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
841
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842SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
843
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844PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
845 expansion side effects.
846
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847PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
848 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
849 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
850 be the same.
851
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852MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
853 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
854 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
855
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856PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
857 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
858 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
859 were accidentally chopped off.
860
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861PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
862 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
863 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
864 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
865 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
866 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
867 pipelining has not been advertised.
868
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869PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
870
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871PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
872 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
873 This has been fixed.
874
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875PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
876 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
877 reported on Solaris.
878
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879PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
880 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
881 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
882 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
883 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
884 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
885 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
886
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887PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
888 cpus.
889
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890PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
891
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892PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
893
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894PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
895 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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896 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
897 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
898 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
899 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 900
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901PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
902 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
903 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
904 host_all_ignored option.
905
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906PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
907 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
908 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
909 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
910 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
911 is what is supposed to happen).
912
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913PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
914 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
915 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
916 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
917 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
918 uses the Exim user.
919
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920PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
921 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
922 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
923 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
924 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
925 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
926 users.
927
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928PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
929
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930SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
931 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
932 (Jez Hancock).
933 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
934 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
935
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936SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
937
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938PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
939
58eb016e 940PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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941 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
942 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
943 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
944 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
945 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
946 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
947 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 948 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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949 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
950 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 951
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952PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
953 advertised in response to EHLO.
954
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958
959PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
960 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
961
962 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
963 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
964
965 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
966 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
967 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
968
969 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
970 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
971 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
972 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
973 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
974
975
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978
979TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
980 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
981 versions. (#438)
982
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983MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
984 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
985 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
986
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987PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
988 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
989 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
990 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
991 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
992 rather than extend the field.
993
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998TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
999 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1000 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1001 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1002 these files.
1003
1004TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1005 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1006 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1007
1008TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1009 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1010 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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1011
1012TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1013 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1014 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1015 in the field name.
1016
2b1c6e3a
PH
1017PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1018 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1019 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1020 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1021 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1022 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1023 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1024 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1025 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1026 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1027 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1028
1f872c80
PH
1029PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1030 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1031
1032PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1033 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1034 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1035 ignores EPIPE as well.
1036
d203e649
PH
1037PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1038 (quoted-printable decoding).
1039
cc2ed8f7 1040PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1041 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1042
ddfcd446
PH
1043PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1044
d45b1de8
PH
1045PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1046
1047PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1048
38a0a95f 1049PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1050 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1051
a2405d83
JJ
1052JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1053 in 4.64-PH/09.
1054
1055JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1056 miscellaneous code fixes
1057
6ea85e9a
PH
1058PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1059 rejections.
1060
26da7e20
PH
1061PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1062 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1063 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1064 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1065 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1066 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1067 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1068 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1069
14aa5a05 1070PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1071 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1072 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1073 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1074 function.
1075 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1076 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1077 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1078 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1079 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1080 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1081 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1082 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1083 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1084
ff75a1f7
PH
1085PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1086 decoding.
1087
e6f6568e
PH
1088PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1089 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1090 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1091 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1092 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1093 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1094 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1095 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1096
d6f6e0dc
PH
1097PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1098 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1099 list.
1100
322050c2
PH
1101PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1102 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1103 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1104 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1105 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1106 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1107 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1108 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1109 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1110 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1111 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1112 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1113 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1114
08955dd3
PH
1115PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1116 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1117 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1118 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1119 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1120 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1121 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1122
1eccaa59
PH
1123PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1124 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1125 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1126 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1127 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1128 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1129 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1130 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1131 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1132 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1133
602e59e5
PH
1134PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1135 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1136 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1137 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1138 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1139
411ef850
PH
1140PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1141 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1142 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1143 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1144 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1145 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1146 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1147
7befa435
PH
1148PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1149 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1150 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1151 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1152 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1153 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1154 been verified.
1155
48da4259 1156PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1157 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1158 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1159 and authorization.)
1160
48da4259
PH
1161PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1162 if any retry times were supplied.
1163
d1d5595c
PH
1164PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1165 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1166 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1167
0ef732d9
PH
1168PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1169
328895cc
PH
1170PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1171
fd700877
PH
1172PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1173 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1174 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1175 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1176 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1177 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1178
8dce1a6f
PH
1179PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1180 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1181
17af4a17
PH
1182PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1183 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1184 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1185
1186PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1187 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1188 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1189 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1190 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1191 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1192 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1193 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1194 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1195
1196 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1197 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1198 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1199 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1200 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1201 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1202 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1203 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1204 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1205
1206 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1207 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1208 hammering the server.
1209
c1114884
PH
1210PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1211 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1212
7a0743eb
PH
1213PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1214
0d85fa3f
PH
1215PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1216 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1217 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1218
1bf43b78
PH
1219PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1220 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1221 one case where this was not true.
1222
520de300
PH
1223PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1224 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1225 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1226 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1227 fails.
1228
48c7f9e2
PH
1229PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1230 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1231 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1232 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1233 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1234 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1235 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1236 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1237 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1238 smtp transport.
1239
99ea1c86
PH
1240PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1241 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1242 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1243 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1244
a2042e78
PH
1245PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1246 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1247
4fbcfc2e
PH
1248PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1249 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1250 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1251
aa41d2de
PH
1252PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1253
af561417
PH
1254PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1255
3cc66b45
PH
1256PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1257
194cc0e4
PH
1258PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1259 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1260 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1261 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1262
a401ddaa
PH
1263PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1264 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1265
4e88a19f
PH
1266PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1267 be meaningful with "accept".
1268
d7d7b289
SC
1269SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1270 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1271
1272SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1273 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1274 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1275
1276SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1277 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1278 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1279 there is data to show.
1280 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1281
1282SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1283 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1284 as well as the number of messages.
1285
1286SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1287 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1288 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1289
1290SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1291 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1292 have a flag are now skipped.
1293
1294SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1295 Added the -emptyok flag.
1296
1297SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1298 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1299
0ea2a468
JJ
1300JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1301 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1302 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1303
1304JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1305 match 4.64-PH/13
1306
1307JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1308 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1309
1310JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1311
1312JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1313 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1314
8a10f5a4
PH
1315PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1316
30e18802
PH
1317PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1318 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1319 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1320 contravention of the specifications.
1321
55728a4f
PH
1322PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1323 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1324 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1325
d7837193
PH
1326PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1327 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1328 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1329
87054a31
PH
1330PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1331
ea2c01d2
MH
1332MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1333 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1334 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1335 some point in the past.
1336
e4fa6968
PH
1337PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1338 transport during callout processing was broken.
1339
56f5d9bd
PH
1340PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1341 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1342
922e1c28
PH
1343PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1344 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1345
21eb6e72
PH
1346PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1347 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1348
a0540757
PH
1349PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1350
944e9e9c 1351
478be7b0
SC
1352Exim version 4.63
1353-----------------
1354
1355SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1356 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1357
1358SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1359 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1360 there is data to show.
1361 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1362
1363SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1364 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1365
2b965a65
TF
1366TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1367 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1368
45b91596
PH
1369TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1370 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1371
c59f5781
TF
1372TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1373 submissions from trusted users.
1374
90fc3069
TF
1375TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1376 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1377
6083aca0
TF
1378TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1379 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1380 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1381 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1382 there is now a framework to start from.
1383
765b530f
PH
1384PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1385 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1386 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1387
4e167a8c
PH
1388PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1389
4608d683
PH
1390PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1391
b8dc3e4a
PH
1392PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1393
5418e93b
PH
1394PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1395 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1396 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1397
b4a9bda2
PH
1398PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1399 libradius.
1400
45b91596
PH
1401PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1402 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1403 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1404
5547e2c5
PH
1405PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1406 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1407 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1408 its arguments.
1409
dbcef0ea
PH
1410PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1411 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1412 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1413 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1414 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1415
25257489
PH
1416PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1417 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1418
c816d124
PH
1419PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1420
a9ccd69a
PH
1421PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1422 operations in malware.c.
1423
75fa1910
PH
1424PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1425 signatures.
1426
a7d7aa58
PH
1427PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1428 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1429 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1430 all.
1431
42119b09
PH
1432PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1433 statements to "add_header".
1434
41609df5
PH
1435PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1436 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1437
a5bd321b
PH
1438PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1439 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1440 latter.
1441
e85a7ad5 1442PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1443 so that it is now:
1444
e85a7ad5
PH
1445 ${if or { \
1446 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1447 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1448 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1449 }{no}{yes}}
1450
e85a7ad5
PH
1451 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1452 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1453
d8fe1c03
PH
1454PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1455 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1456
16282d2b
PH
1457PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1458 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1459 any possible encoding problems.
1460
35d40a98
PH
1461PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1462 but not after initializing Perl.
1463
034d99ab
PH
1464PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1465 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1466 apparently, which is not desirable.
1467
6ec97b1b
PH
1468PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1469 queries.
1470
e22ca4ac
JJ
1471JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1472 --not options
1473
1474JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1475
33d73e3b
PH
1476PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1477 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1478 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1479 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1480
9ecb03f3
PH
1481PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1482 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1483 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1484
084efe8d
PH
1485PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1486 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1487 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1488 0.12.
1489
366fc9f0
PH
1490PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1491 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1492 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1493 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1494 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1495
c59f5781 1496
c887c79e
TF
1497Exim version 4.62
1498-----------------
1499
1500TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1501 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1502
1cce3af8
PH
1503PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1504 patch).
1505
afb3eaaf
PH
1506PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1507 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1508 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1509 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1510 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1511 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1512 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1513 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1514 451 error is used.
1515
e173618b
PH
1516PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1517
dd16e114
PH
1518PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1519 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1520 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1521
f7fd3850
PH
1522PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1523 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1524 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1525 odd errors.
1526
d87df92c
PH
1527PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1528 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1529
7e9f683d
PH
1530PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1531 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1532 option (which defaults to 0600).
1533
bfad5236
PH
1534PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1535
01c490df
PH
1536PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1537 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1538 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1539 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1540 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1541 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1542 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1543
d6629cdc
PH
1544PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1545
1cce3af8 1546
214e2000
PH
1547Exim version 4.61
1548-----------------
1549
1550PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1551 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1552 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1553 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1554 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1555 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1556 addresses as local.
1557
f9daeae0
PH
1558PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1559 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1560
7e66e54d
PH
1561PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1562
c8ea1597
PH
1563PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1564 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1565 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1566 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1567 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1568 grumble.
1569
911f6fde
PH
1570PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1571 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1572
47ca6d6c
PH
1573PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1574 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1575 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1576 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1577 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1578
ed0e9820
PH
1579PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1580 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1581 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1582 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1583
eff37e47
PH
1584PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1585 be the same on different OS.
1586
1921d2ea
PH
1587PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1588 testing.
1589
b3f69ca8
JJ
1590JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1591 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1592
1593JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1594 in 4.61-PH/06
1595
424a1c63
PH
1596PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1597 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1598 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1599 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1600 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1601 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1602 bounce message.
1603
7a100415
PH
1604PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1605 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1606 when Exim was called.
1607
19b9dc85
PH
1608PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1609 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1610
309bd837
PH
1611PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1612 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1613 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1614 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1615
59e82a2a
PH
1616PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1617 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1618 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1619 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1620 changes:
1621
1622 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1623 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1624 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1625
1626 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1627 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1628 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1629
9edc04ce
PH
1630PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1631 feature).
1632
1349e1e5
PH
1633PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1634 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1635 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1636 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1637 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1638 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1639 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1640 values from the SRV records were lost.
1641
ea49d0e1
PH
1642PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1643 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1644 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1645
064a94c9
PH
1646PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1647 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1648 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1649
727071f8
PH
1650PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1651 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1652 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1653 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1654 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1655 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1656 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1657 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1658 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1659 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1660
f78eb7c6
PH
1661PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1662 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1663 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1664
21c28500
PH
1665PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1666 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1667
1668PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1669 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1670 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1671 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1672 is given.
1673
1688f43b
PH
1674PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1675 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1676 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1677
1678PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1679 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1680 PH/23 above applies.
1681
9675b384
PH
1682PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1683 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1684 (for which there is an explicit test).
1685
6a3f1455
PH
1686PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1687
dac79d3e
PH
1688PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1689 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1690 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1691 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1692 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1693
5977a0b3
PH
1694PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1695 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1696 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1697 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1698
c91535f3
PH
1699PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1700 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1701 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1702
0d46a8c8
PH
1703PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1704
278c6e6c
PH
1705PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1706
2cbb4081
PH
1707PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1708 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1709 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1710
3eef829e
PH
1711PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1712 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1713 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1714 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1715 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1716
1ab95fa6
PH
1717PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1718 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1719 the message gets confusing).
1720
230205fc
PH
1721PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1722 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1723 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1724 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1725
75e0e026
PH
1726PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1727 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1728 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1729 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1730 same order.
1731
1732PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1733 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1734 the different processes.
1735
145396a6
PH
1736PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1737
3cd34f13
PH
1738PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1739
11121d3d
JJ
1740JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1741 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1742
1743JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1744 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1745
1746JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1747 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1748 messages matching specified criteria.
1749
8def5aaf
PH
1750PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1751
929ba01c
PH
1752PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1753 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1754
2632889e
PH
1755PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1756 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1757 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1758 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1759 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1760 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1761 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1762 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1763 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1764 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1765
944a9c55
PH
1766PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1767 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1768 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1769
4a23603b
PH
1770PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1771
4730f942
PH
1772PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1773 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1774 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1775 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1776 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1777 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1778 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1779 the variable.
1780
30dba1e6
PH
1781PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1782 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1783
382afc6b
PH
1784PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1785
a86229cf
PH
1786PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1787
50c99ba6
PH
1788PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1789
d35e429d
PH
1790PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1791 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1792 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1793 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1794 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1795 size of the count of files.
1796
f90d018c
PH
1797PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1798
75def545
PH
1799PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1800 used in LMTP mode:
1801
1802 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1803 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1804 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1805 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1806
1807 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1808 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1809 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1810
1811PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1812 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1813 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1814 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1815 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1816
c46782ef
PH
1817PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1818 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1819
71fafd95
PH
1820PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1821 will now be deprecated.
1822
2c5db4fd
PH
1823PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1824
9cf6b11a
JJ
1825JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1826 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1827 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1828
1829JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1830 with very large, slow to parse queues
1831
1832JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1833
1834JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1835
898d150f
PH
1836PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1837 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1838 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1839 SMTP output lines.
1840
46218253
PH
1841PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1842 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1843 Sieve code now uses this.
1844
e97957bc
PH
1845PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1846 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1847
81e509d7
PH
1848PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1849 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1850
3d240ff7
PH
1851PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1852
b37c4101
PH
1853PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1854 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1855 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1856 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1857 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1858
79378e0f
PH
1859PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1860 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1861 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1862 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1863
e49c7bb4
PH
1864PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1865
d114ec46
PH
1866PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1867
f3d7df6c
PH
1868PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1869 is preferred over IPv4.
1870
715ab376
PH
1871PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1872 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1873 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1874 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1875 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1876 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1877 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1878
6b31b150
PH
1879PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1880 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1881 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1882
1883PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1884
d515a917
PH
1885PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1886 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1887 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1888 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1889 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1890 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1891 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1892 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1893 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1894 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1895 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1896
9b8fadde
PH
1897PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1898 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1899 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1900
214e2000 1901
5de37277
PH
1902Exim version 4.60
1903-----------------
1904
cc38ddbf
PH
1905PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1906
1907 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1908 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1909
1910 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1911 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1912 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1913
72fdd6ae
PH
1914PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1915
1916 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1917 not a single digit.
1918
1919 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1920 string.
1921
1922 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1923 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1924 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1925 silly things.
1926
1927 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1928 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1929
1930 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1931 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1932
cb741023
PH
1933PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1934 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1935 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1936
f174f16e
PH
1937PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1938 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1939
c25242d7
PH
1940PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1941 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1942
1943 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1944
1945 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1946 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1947 this:
1948
1949 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1950
82c19f95
PH
1951PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1952 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1953 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1954 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1955 identical. For example:
1956
1957 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1958
1959 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1960 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1961 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1962
d7ffbc12
PH
1963PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1964 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1965 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1966 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1967
9f526266
PH
1968PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1969 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1970 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1971 message.
1972
87fcc8b9
PH
1973PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1974
1975 o fixes some comments
1976 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1977 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1978 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1979 and documents the missing references header update
1980
1981 and most important:
1982
1983 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1984 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1985 result)
1986
456682f5
PH
1987PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1988 Electronic Mail") by including:
1989
1990 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1991
1992 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1993 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1994 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1995 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1996 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1997
1998 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1999
2000 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2001
2002 The auto-replied keyword:
2003
2004 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2005 message by an automatic process,
2006
2007 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2008
2009 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2010 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2011
2012 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2013 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2014 other messages.
2015
3e46c1aa
PH
2016PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2017 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2018
49826d12
PH
2019PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2020
eba0c039
PH
2021PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2022 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2023 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2024
a0d6ba8a
PH
2025PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2026 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2027 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2028
f0917727
PH
2029PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2030 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2031 and treats the condition as false.
2032
096fee00
PH
2033PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2034
024bd3c2
PH
2035PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2036 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2037 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2038 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2039 not changing the active code.
2040
2041 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2042 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2043
2044 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2045 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2046
df199fec
PH
2047PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2048 (Bugzilla #53).
2049
d27f1df3
PH
2050PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2051 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2052 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2053 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2054 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2055 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2056 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2057 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2058 the text comparison.
2059
96776534
PH
2060PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2061 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2062 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2063 The same fix has been applied.
2064
5de37277 2065
9a799bc0
PH
2066Exim version 4.54
2067-----------------
2068
2069PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2070 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2071 It now does.
2072
99a4b039
PH
2073PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2074 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2075
2076PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2077
4b233853
PH
2078PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2079 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2080 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2081 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2082 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2083
8857ccfd
PH
2084TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2085 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2086 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2087 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2088 or /domain=).
2089
433a2980
PH
2090PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2091 testing suite.
2092
3e46c1aa 2093
9a799bc0 2094
e3a311ba
TK
2095Exim version 4.53
2096-----------------
2097
2098TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2099 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2100
13b685f9
PH
2101PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2102
395ff96d
PH
2103PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2104
5b68f6e4
PH
2105PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2106 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2107 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2108
1ab52c69
PH
2109PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2110 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2111 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2112
b07e6aa3
PH
2113PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2114 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2115 operating systems.
2116
254e032f
PH
2117PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2118 ${stat: expansion item.
2119
3af76a81
PH
2120PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2121 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2122
2548ba04
PH
2123PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2124 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2125 file for comments.
2126
b6c6011d
PH
2127PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2128
cf39cf57
PH
2129PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2130 setting.
2131
f1513293
PH
2132PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2133 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2134
727549a4
PH
2135TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2136
af46795e
PH
2137PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2138 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2139 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2140 the end of the subprocess.
2141
d7b47fd0
PH
2142PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2143 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2144 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2145 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2146 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2147
ee744174
JJ
2148JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2149
b582ab87
PH
2150TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2151
41a13e0a
PH
2152PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2153 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2154
f625cc5a
PH
2155PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2156
2157PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2158
21f7af35
PH
2159PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2160 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2161 HP-UX compiler.
2162
31480e42
PH
2163PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2164
2d280592
PH
2165PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2166 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2167 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2168
7cd1141b
PH
2169PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2170 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2171
2172PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2173 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2174
750af86e
PH
2175PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2176 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2177
2178 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2179 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2180
2181 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2182 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2183 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2184 contributed by a Radius user.
2185
2186PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2187 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2188
4304270b
TK
2189TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2190 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2191
750af86e
PH
2192PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2193 available.
2194
64ffc24f
PH
2195PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2196 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2197 received.
2198
5dd9625b
PH
2199PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2200 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2201 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2202 header lines when this was not necessary.
2203
5591031b
PH
2204PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2205
ba18e66a
PH
2206PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2207 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2208 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2209 exists".
2210
9cec981f
PH
2211PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2212 -bV or -d is used.
2213
aa2b5c79
PH
2214PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2215 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2216 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2217 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2218
48a53b7f
PH
2219PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2220
1c59d63b
PH
2221PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2222
671012da
TK
2223TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2224
1509d3a8
PH
2225PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2226
2227PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2228 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2229 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2230 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2231 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2232 settings.
2233
2234PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2235
2fe1a124
PH
2236PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2237 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2238 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2239 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2240 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2241 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2242 which is clearly wrong.
2243
8800895a
PH
2244PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2245
ccfdb010
PH
2246PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2247 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2248 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2249 subsequently added.
2250
1130bfb0
PH
2251PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2252 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2253
ebcb507f
PH
2254PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2255
c35e155c
PH
2256PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2257 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2258
95d1f782
PH
2259PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2260 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2261
fd6de02e
PH
2262PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2263 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2264
58de37c5
PH
2265PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2266 recipients, not senders.
2267
261cf466
TF
2268TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2269 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2270
3ee512ff
PH
2271PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2272
e08c430f
PH
2273PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2274
bef5a11f
PH
2275PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2276 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2277 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2278 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2279
7546de58
TF
2280TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2281
e5d5a95f
TF
2282TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2283 clock is set back in time.
2284
2e88a017
TF
2285TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2286 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2287
a5f65aa4
TF
2288TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2289 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2290
e7726cbf
PH
2291PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2292 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2293 (see PH/47 above).
2294
a7fdad5b
TF
2295TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2296 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2297 header rewrites.
2298
6af56900
PH
2299PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2300 type ("H").
2301
0925ede6
PH
2302PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2303
66afa403
TF
2304TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2305 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2306 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2307
0154e85a
TF
2308TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2309 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2310 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2311 helo verification defer as a failure.
2312
16f12c76
PH
2313PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2314 actual error message.
2315
bbe902f0 2316
e5a9dba6
PH
2317Exim version 4.52
2318-----------------
2319
2320TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2321
22c3b60b
PH
2322PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2323 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2324 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2325 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2326
06a9b4b5
PH
2327TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2328
c1ac6996
PH
2329PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2330 can still be requested.
2331
9c7a242c
PH
2332PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2333 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2334 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2335 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2336
87ba3f5f
PH
2337TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2338 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2339 circumstances, but probably never did.
2340
2341PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2342 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2343 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2344 in the header line.
2345
29aba418
TF
2346TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2347
fe0dab11
TF
2348TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2349 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2350
11d337a4
TK
2351TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2352
2353TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2354
415c8f3b
PH
2355PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2356 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2357 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2358 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2359 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2360 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2361
958541e9
PH
2362PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2363 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2364 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2365 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2366 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2367 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2368
c206415f
TK
2369TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2370 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2371
2a4be8f9
PH
2372PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2373 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2374
1cba11c5
SC
2375SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2376 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2377
2378SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2379
2380SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2381
2382SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2383
2384SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2385
2386SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2387
2388SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2389
1005d00e
TK
2390TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2391
2392TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2393 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2394 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2395
2396TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2397 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2398 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2399 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2400
9b4768fa
PH
2401PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2402 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2403 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2404
2405PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2406 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2407 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2408 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2409
0d7eb84a
PH
2410PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2411 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2412 to be made).
2413
2414PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2415 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2416 should work with maildirs and everything.
2417
40727bee
TK
2418TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2419 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2420
554d2369
TF
2421TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2422 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2423
1f922db1
PH
2424PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2425 function for BDB 4.3.
2426
ef213c3b
PH
2427PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2428
8ac170f3
PH
2429PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2430 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2431 involved.
2432
b1c749bb
PH
2433PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2434 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2435 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2436 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2437 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2438 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2439
4aac9b49
PH
2440PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2441 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2442 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2443 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2444 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2445 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2446 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2447 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2448
294520c8
TK
2449TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2450 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2451 details.
2452
5bd022fe
PH
2453PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2454 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2455
90e9ce59
PH
2456PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2457 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2458 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2459 test. It is now used for both.
2460
5ea81592
PH
2461PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2462 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2463 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2464 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2465 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2466 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2467
c6c2dc1d
PH
2468PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2469 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2470 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2471 string_vformat().
2472
fffffe4c
PH
2473PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2474 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2475 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2476
9a26b6b2
PH
2477PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2478 experimental DomainKeys support:
2479
2480 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2481 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2482 the control was given.
2483
2484 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2485
4aee0225
PH
2486PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2487
32d668a5
PH
2488PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2489
8187c3f3
PH
2490PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2491 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2492 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2493 db.h files).
2494
ff790e47 2495PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2496 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2497 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2498 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2499 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2500 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2501 course.
ff790e47 2502
5417f6d1
PH
2503PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2504 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2505 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2506 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2507 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2508 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2509
59cf8544
PH
2510PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2511 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2512 do -d+all out of habit.
2513
e7ad8a65
PH
2514PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2515 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2516 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2517
ade42478
PH
2518PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2519 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2520 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2521 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2522 record types that Exim uses.
2523
182ad5cf
PH
2524PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2525 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2526 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2527 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2528 non-existent file that was broken.
2529
b0d9fc80
TK
2530TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2531 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2532
2533TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2534 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2535 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2536
2537TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2538
47c7a64a
PH
2539PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2540 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2541 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2542 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2543 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2544 same time.
2545
a388bce4
SC
2546SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2547 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2548 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2549 at a slight CPU cost.
2550
2551SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2552 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2553
2554SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2555 by Marc Sherman.
2556
0793e4ed
SC
2557SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2558
c58b88df
PH
2559PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2560 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2561
e7ad8a65 2562
7982096b
PH
2563Exim version 4.51
2564-----------------
2565
1a46a8c5
PH
2566TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2567 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2568
2f079f46 2569TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2570
2571TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2572
2573PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2574 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2575
2576PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2577 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2578 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2579 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2580 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2581 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2582 file.
2583
2584PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2585 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2586 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2587 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2588 these two options.
2589
2590PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2591 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2592 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2593 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2594 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2595 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2596 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2597 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2598
2599PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2600 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2601
2602PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2603 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2604 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2605 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2606 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2607 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2608
2609PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2610 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2611 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2612 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2613
2614PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2615 Finch).
2616
2617PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2618 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2619
49c2d5ea
PH
2620PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2621 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2622 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2623 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2624 message.
49c2d5ea 2625
bf759a8b
PH
2626PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2627
83364d30
PH
2628PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2629 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2630
7999bbd7
PH
2631PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2632 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2633 to what was transported.)
2634
7dbf77c9
PH
2635TF/01 Added $received_time.
2636
74e0617f
PH
2637PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2638 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2639 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2640 spamd_address settings.
2641
2f079f46
PH
2642PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2643 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2644 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2645 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2646 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2647
8c841523
PH
2648PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2649
7766a4f0
PH
2650PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2651 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2652 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2653 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2654 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2655
8b417f2c
PH
2656PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2657 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2658
901f42cb
PH
2659PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2660 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2661 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2662 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2663 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2664 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2665 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2666 for failure.
2667
f9b9210e
PH
2668PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2669 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2670 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2671 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2672 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2673 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2674 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2675 "input=".
2676
54cdb463
PH
2677PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2678
cf00dad6
PH
2679PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2680 driver and ACL definitions.
2681
acb1b346
PH
2682PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2683 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2684
c5ddb310
PH
2685PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2686 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2687 understands it better than I do:
2688
2689 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2690 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2691
2692 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2693 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2694 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2695 => three warnings about OTP not working
2696 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2697
2698 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2699 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2700 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2701 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2702 for each call.)
2703 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2704 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2705
2706 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2707 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2708 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2709
31619da6
PH
2710PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2711 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2712 specified.
2713
bebaf0fc
PH
2714PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2715 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2716 "Linux".
2717
475fe28a
PH
2718PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2719 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2720 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2721
2722 warn !verify = sender
2723 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2724
2725 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2726 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2727
7e8bec7a
PH
2728PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2729
2730 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2731 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2732
2733 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2734 nomenclature these days.)
2735
e4a89c47
PH
2736PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2737 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2738
5ca2a9a1
PH
2739PH/30 In these circumstances:
2740 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2741 . First host does not offer TLS;
2742 . First host accepts first address;
2743 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2744 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2745 . Second host accepts second address.
2746 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2747 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2748 address.
7e8bec7a 2749
c688b954
PH
2750PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2751 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2752 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2753 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2754 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2755
fed77020
PH
2756PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2757 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2758
7fe1560f
PH
2759PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2760 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2761
ebb6e6d5
PH
2762PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2763 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2764 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2765
9c4e8f60
PH
2766PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2767 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2768 overlooked.
2769
2770PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2771
d7174846
PH
2772PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2773 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2774 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2775 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2776 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2777 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2778 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2779
2780 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2781 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2782 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2783 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2784 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2785
2786 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2787 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2788 routed further.
2789
cfe75fc3
PH
2790PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2791 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2792 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2793 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2794 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2795 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2796
be22d70e
PH
2797PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2798
0612b098
PH
2799PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2800 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2801 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2802 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2803 printable escape sequences.
2804
2e0c1448
PH
2805PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2806 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2807 body only.
2808
447d236c
PH
2809PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2810 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2811 are as follows:
2812
2813 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2814 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2815 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2816 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2817 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2818
2819 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2820 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2821 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2822
d20976dc
PH
2823PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2824
f656d135
PH
2825PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2826 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2827 play with."
2828
2e2a30b4
PH
2829PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2830 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2831 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2832 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2833 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2834 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2835 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2836 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2837 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2838 the log output.
2839
9176e9f0
PH
2840PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2841 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2842 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2843 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2844 "make".
2845
7982096b 2846
bbe902f0
PH
2847A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2848----------------------------------------
2849
2850Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2851changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2852needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2853in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2854that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2855release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2856from 4.43.
2857
2858I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
28594.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2860those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2861historical information.
2862
2863
f7b63901 2864Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2865-----------------
2866
5fe762f6
PH
2867 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2868
139059f6 2869 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2870 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2871
7086e875
PH
2872 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2873 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2874 place.
2875
35af9f61
PH
2876 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2877 filter fails to execute.
2878
b668c215
PH
2879 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2880 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2881 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2882 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2883 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2884
a494b1e1
PH
2885 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2886
2887 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2888 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2889 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2890 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2891
c5fcb476
PH
2892 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2893 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2894 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2895 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2896 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2897
69358f02
PH
2898 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2899
5be20824
PH
290010. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2901
eb2c0248
PH
290211. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2903 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2904 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2905 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2906
2a3eea10
PH
290712. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2908 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2909 sender verification.
2910
291113. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2912 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2913
23c7ff99
PH
291414. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2915
4deaf07d
PH
291615. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2917 connection timeout.
2918
926e1192
PH
291916. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2920 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2921
650edc6f
PH
292217. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2923 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2924
2c7db3f5
PH
292518. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2926 information about exactly what failed.
2927
3d235903
PH
292819. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2929
7c7ad977
PH
293020. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2931 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2932 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2933
981756db
PH
293421. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2935 It is now set to "smtps".
2936
d4eb88df
PH
293722. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2938 ignore_target_hosts.
2939
294023. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2941 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2942 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2943 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2944 "[x.x.x.x]".
2945
7d468ab8
PH
294624. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2947 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2948 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2949
295025. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2951 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2952 wake it up if nothing else does.
2953
62c0818f
PH
295426. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2955 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2956 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2957 end up negative.
2958
26034054
PH
295927. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2960 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2961
af66f652
PH
296228. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2963
90af77f4
PH
296429. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2965 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2966 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2967 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2968 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2969 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2970 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2971 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2972
d8ef3577
PH
297330. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2974 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2975 than one IP address.
2976
5cb8cbc6
PH
297731. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2978 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2979 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2980 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2981
14702f5b
PH
298232. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2983 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2984 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2985 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2986 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2987 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2988
063b1e99
PH
298933. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2990 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2991 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2992 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2993
652e1b65
PH
299434. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2995 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2996 respected.
2997
6f0c9a4f
PH
299835. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2999 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3000 $sender_host_address.
3001
33397d19
PH
300236. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3003 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3004 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3005 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3006 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3007 very small.
3008
7bb56e1f
PH
300937. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3010
3011 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3012 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3013
ea3bc19b
PH
3014 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3015 just the host names, not the priorities.
3016
3017 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3018 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3019 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3020
ea3bc19b 3021 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3022 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3023
0bcb2a0e
PH
302438. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3025 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3026 domain.
3027
2ac0e484
PH
302839. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3029
4e1fde53
PH
303040. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3031 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3032
de365ded
PH
303341. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3034 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3035 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3036
f05da2e8
PH
303742. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3038
d6453af2
PH
303943. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3040
f7b63901
PH
304144. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3042
304345. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3044 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3045 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3046 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3047 because the tests only now provoked it.
3048
a444213a
PH
304946. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3050 (this can affect the format of dates).
3051
0ec020ea
PH
305247. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3053 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3054 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3055 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3056
b1206957
PH
305748. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3058
305949. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3060 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3061 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3062 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3063
26dd5a95
PH
306450. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3065 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3066 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3067
343b2385
PH
306851. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3069 autoreply.
3070
1c5466b9
PH
307152. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3072 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3073 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3074 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3075 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3076 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3077 is going on).
3078
55ee9ee3
PH
307953. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3080 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3081 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3082 the line.
3083
d38f8232
PH
308454. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3085 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3086 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3087
3088 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3089 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3090 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3091 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3092 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3093 so I produce this patch..."
3094
3295e65b
PH
3095 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3096 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3097 is not defined.
3098
7102e136
PH
309955. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3100 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3101 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3102 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3103 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3104
3ca0ba97
PH
310556. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3106
c2bcbe20
PH
310757. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3108 long debug lines gets shown.
3109
18ce445d
PH
311058. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3111 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3112
1f5b4c3d
PH
311359. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3114
3115 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3116 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3117 of $primary_hostname.
3118
b975ba52
PH
311960. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3120 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3121 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3122 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3123 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3124 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3125 by change 4.50/55 above.
3126
3127 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3128 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3129 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3130 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3131 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3132 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3133 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3134
313561. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3136 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3137 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3138 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3139
17ffcae7
PH
314062. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3141 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3142
d95f9fdb
PH
314363. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3144 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3145 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3146 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3147 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3148
86b8287f
PH
314964. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3150 This has been fixed.
3151
60dc5e56
PH
315265. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3153 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3154 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3155 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3156 the caching.)
3157
533244af
PH
315866. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3159
a5a28604
PH
316067. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3161 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3162 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3163 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3164
7e634d24
PH
316568. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3166 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3167
3e11c26b
PH
316869. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3169 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3170 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3171
6729cf78
PH
317270. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3173 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3174 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3175 message there.
3176
00f00ca5
PH
317771. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3178 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3179 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3180
c9bdd01c
PH
318172. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3182 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3183 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3184 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3185
d43194df
PH
318673. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3187 during host lookups.
3188
fe5b5d0b
PH
318974. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3190 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3191
3192 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3193
76a2d7ba
PH
319475. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3195 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3196 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3197 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3198 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3199 background.
3200
320176. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3202 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3203
04f7d5b9
PH
320477. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3205 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3206 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3207
bc60667e
PH
320878. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3209
bb6e88ff
PH
321079. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3211 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3212 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3213 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3214 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3215 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3216 process earlier.
3217
1e70f85b
PH
321880. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3219 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3220 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3221 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3222 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3223
322481. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3225 tables).
3226
4e01f9d6
PH
322782. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3228
1ee1cef2
PH
322983. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3230 "vacation" handling.
3231
6e2b4ccc
PH
323284. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3233 OS variants using glibc.
3234
8e669ac1
PH
323585. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3236
495ae4b0 3237
bbe902f0
PH
3238----------------------------------------------------
3239See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3240----------------------------------------------------
3241
3242
3243Exim version 4.44
3244-----------------
3245
3246 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3247 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3248 transport
3249
3250 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3251 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3252 place.
3253
3254 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3255 filter fails to execute.
3256
3257 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3258 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3259 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3260 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3261 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3262
3263 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3264 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3265 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3266 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3267
3268 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3269 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3270 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3271 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3272 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3273
3274 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3275
3276 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3277 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3278 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3279 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3280
3281 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3282 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3283 sender verification.
3284
328510. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3286 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3287
328811. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3289 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3290
329112. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3292 ignore_target_hosts.
3293
329413. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3295 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3296 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3297 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3298 "[x.x.x.x]".
3299
330014. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3301 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3302 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3303
330415. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3305 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3306 wake it up if nothing else does.
3307
330816. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3309 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3310 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3311 end up negative.
3312
331317. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3314 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3315
ea3a6f44 331618. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3317
331819. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3319 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3320 empty pattern.
3321
332220. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3323 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3324 one IP address.
3325
ea3a6f44
NM
332621. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3327 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3328 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3329 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3330 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3331 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3332
ea3a6f44
NM
333322. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3334 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3335 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3336
333723. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3338 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3339 $sender_host_address.
3340
334124. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3342
ea3a6f44
NM
334325. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3344 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3345 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3346
334726. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3348 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3349
ea3a6f44
NM
335027. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3351 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3352
ea3a6f44
NM
335328. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3354 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3355 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3356 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3357
335829. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3359 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3360 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3361
ea3a6f44
NM
336230. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3363 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3364 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3365 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3366
ea3a6f44
NM
336731. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3368 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3369 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3370
ea3a6f44
NM
337131. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3372 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3373
ea3a6f44
NM
337432. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3375 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3376 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3377 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3378 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3379 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3380 is going on).
bbe902f0 3381
ea3a6f44
NM
338233. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3383 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3384 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3385 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3386 CAN-2005-0021
3387
ea3a6f44
NM
338834. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3389 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3390 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3391 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3392 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3393 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3394 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3395
3396 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3397 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3398 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3399 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3400 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3401 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3402 CAN-2005-0021
3403
ea3a6f44
NM
340435. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3405 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3406 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3407 CAN-2005-0022
3408
ea3a6f44
NM
340936. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3410 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3411 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3412 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3413 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3414
ea3a6f44
NM
341537. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3416 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3417 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3418 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3419 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3420
ea3a6f44
NM
342138. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3422 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3423 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3424 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3425 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3426
3427
495ae4b0
PH
3428Exim version 4.43
3429-----------------
3430
3431 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3432 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3433 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3434 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3435 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3436 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3437 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3438
3439 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3440 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3441 the delivery.
3442
3443 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3444
3445 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3446
3447 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3448 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3449 to local_scan().
3450
3451 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3452 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3453 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3454 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3455 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3456
3457 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3458 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3459
3460 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3461
3462 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3463
346410. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3465 header_sender only.
3466
346711. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3468 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3469
347012. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3471 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3472 affecting debugging statements).
3473
347413. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3475
347614. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3477 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3478 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3479 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3480 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3481 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3482 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3483 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3484 after the received time, and all would be well.
3485
348615. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3487 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3488 condition in an expansion string.
3489
349016. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3491
349217. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3493 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3494 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3495 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3496 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3497 job under whatever limits there are.
3498
349918. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3500
350119. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3502 space).
3503
350420. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3505 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3506 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3507 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3508 return path is set.
3509
351021. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3511 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3512 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3513 binary data in such strings.
3514
351522. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3516
351723. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3518 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3519 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3520 failure, which is pointless.
3521
352224. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3523
352425. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3525
352626. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3527 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3528 Sender: header lines.
3529
353027. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3531 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3532 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3533
353428. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3535 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3536 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3537 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3538 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3539 happens.
3540
354129. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3542 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3543 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3544 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3545 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3546
354730. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3548 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3549 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3550 1024.
3551
355231. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3553 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3554
355532. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3556 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3557
355833. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3559
356032. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3561
356233. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3563
356434. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3565 syntax error.
3566
356735. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3568
356936. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3570
357137. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3572 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3573 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3574 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3575
357638. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3577 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3578
3579
3580Exim version 4.42
3581-----------------
3582
3583 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3584 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3585 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3586 it was not quoted.
3587 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3588 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3589 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3590 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3591 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3592 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3593
3594 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3595 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3596 verification failure".
3597
3598 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3599 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3600 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3601 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3602
3603 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3604 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3605 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3606 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3607 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3608 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3609 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3610 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3611 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3612 treated as a timeout.
3613
3614 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3615 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3616 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3617 not set for Exim filters).
3618
3619 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3620 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3621 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3622
3623 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3624
3625 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3626 try to make them clearer.
3627
3628 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3629 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3630
3631 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3632
3633 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3634
363510. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3636 only the Cygwin environment.
3637
363811. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3639 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3640 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3641 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3642 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3643
364412. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3645 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3646 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3647 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3648 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3649 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3650 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3651
365213. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3653 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3654
365514. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3656
3657 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3658 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3659 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3660
3661 To: susanne@some.where
3662
3663 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3664 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3665 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3666 of addresses in From: header lines).
3667
3668 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3669 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3670 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3671
3672 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3673 treated as non-personal.
3674
3675 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3676 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3677
367815. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3679
368016. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3681
368217. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3683 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3684 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3685
368618. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3687 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3688
368919. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3690 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3691 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3692 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3693 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3694 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3695
369620. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3697 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3698 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3699 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3700 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3701 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3702 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3703 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3704
3705 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3706
370721. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3708 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3709
371022. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3711 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3712 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3713
371423. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3715 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3716
371724. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3718 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3719 rather than long int.
3720
372125. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3722
372326. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3724
3725
3726Exim version 4.41
3727-----------------
3728
3729 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3730 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3731 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3732 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3733 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3734 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3735
3736
3737Exim version 4.40
3738-----------------
3739
3740 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3741 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3742
3743 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3744 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3745 socklen_t is defined.
3746
3747 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3748 always exist.
3749
3750 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3751 configured.
3752
3753 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3754 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3755 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3756 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3757 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3758
3759 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3760 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3761 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3762 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3763
3764 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3765 of flapping under certain conditions.
3766
3767 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3768 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3769 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3770
3771 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3772
377310. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3774
377511. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3776 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3777 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3778 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3779
378012. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3781 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3782 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3783 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3784 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3785 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3786 preserved with the message after it was received.
3787
378813. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3789 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3790 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3791 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3792 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3793 test suite worked just fine.
3794
379514. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3796 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3797 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3798
379915. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3800 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3801 string.
3802
380316. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3804 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3805 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3806 does not fully solve it.
3807
380817. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3809 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3810 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3811 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3812 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3813
381418. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3815 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3816 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3817
381819. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3819 string, for example:
3820
3821 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3822
3823 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3824 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3825 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3826 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3827 the routers could not see them.
3828
382920. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3830 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3831
383221. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3833 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3834 output).
3835
383622. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3837 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3838 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3839 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3840 that needed quoting.
3841
384223. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3843 was not being matched caselessly.
3844
384524. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3846 backslashes.
3847
384825. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3849 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3850 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3851 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3852 when use_sender is false.
3853
385426. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3855
385627. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3857
385828. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3859
386029. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3861 the configuration file.
3862
386330. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3864 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3865
386631. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3867
386832. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3869 bytes in the message body.
3870
387133. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3872 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3873 delivery.
3874
387534. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3876
387735. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3878
387936. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3880 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3881 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3882 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3883 another IP address.
3884
3885
3886Exim version 4.34
3887-----------------
3888
3889 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3890 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3891
3892 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3893 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3894 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3895 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3896 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3897
3898 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3899 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3900
3901 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3902 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
3903 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
3904
3905 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
3906 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
3907 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
3908
3909 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
3910 for routers.
3911
3912 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
3913 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
3914 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
3915 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
3916 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
3917 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
3918 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
3919
3920
3921Exim version 4.33
3922-----------------
3923
3924 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
3925 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
3926 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
3927 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
3928 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
3929 default (and expected) setting.
3930
3931 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
3932 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
3933 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
3934 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
3935
3936 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
3937 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
3938
3939 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
3940 in domain lists.
3941
3942 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
3943 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
3944 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
3945 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
3946 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
3947 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
3948
3949 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
3950 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
3951 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
3952
3953 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
3954 part (NOT match_host).
3955
3956 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
3957
3958 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
3959 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
3960 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
3961 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
3962 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
3963 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
3964 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
3965 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
3966 the same named file.
3967
396810. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
3969 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
3970 when Exim is built.
3971
397211. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
3973 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
3974 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
3975 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
3976 a host name.
3977
397812. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
3979 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
3980 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
3981
398213. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
3983
398414. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
3985
398615. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
3987
398816. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
3989 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
3990
399117. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
3992 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
3993 before starting the TLS session.
3994
399518. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
3996
399719. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
3998 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
3999
400020. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4001 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4002 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4003 colon in the middle).
4004
4005
4006Exim version 4.32
4007-----------------
4008
4009 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4010 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4011 multiple configurations are in use.
4012
4013 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4014 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4015 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4016 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4017 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4018 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4019
4020 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4021 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4022
4023 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4024 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4025 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4026
4027 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4028 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4029 occurs.
4030
4031 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4032 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4033
4034 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4035
4036 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4037 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4038
4039 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4040
4041 -prval:sval
4042
4043 is equivalent to
4044
4045 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4046
4047 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4048 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4049 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4050 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4051 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4052
405310. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4054 Exim's behaviour:
4055
4056 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4057 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4058 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4059 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4060 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4061 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4062
4063 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4064 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4065 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4066 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4067 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4068 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4069 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4070 string.
4071
4072 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4073 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4074 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4075 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4076 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4077
407811. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4079
408012. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4081 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4082 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4083
408413. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4085
408614. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4087 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4088 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4089 information.
4090
409115. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4092 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4093
409416. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4095 Three changes have been made:
4096
4097 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4098 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4099 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4100 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4101 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4102
4103 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4104 been restored.
4105
4106 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4107 the modified behaviour.
4108
4109
4110Exim version 4.31
4111-----------------
4112
4113 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4114 Larry Rosenman.
4115
4116 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4117 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4118
4119 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4120 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4121 try to track down a specific problem.
4122
4123 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4124 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4125 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4126
4127 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4128 warning.
4129
4130 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4131 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4132 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4133 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4134 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4135 some earlier ones do not.
4136
4137 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4138
4139 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4140 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4141 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4142 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4143 address literals are enabled, of course).
4144
4145 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4146
414710. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4148 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4149 by a command such as
4150
4151 exim -f "" ...
4152
4153 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4154
415511. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4156
415712. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4158 remained set. It is now erased.
4159
416013. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4161 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4162
416314. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4164 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4165 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4166 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4167 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4168 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4169 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4170 appropriate error code.
4171
417215. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4173 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4174 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4175 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4176 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4177 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4178
417916. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4180 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4181 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4182
418317. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4184 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4185 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4186 terminate the header.
4187
418818. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4189 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4190 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4191
419219. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4193 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4194 (4.30/29). In particular:
4195
4196 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4197 imposed.
4198
4199 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4200 to write a maildirsize file.
4201
4202 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4203 the transport, the new value overrides.
4204
4205 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4206 count.
4207
420820. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4209 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4210 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4211 space or a tab.
4212
421321. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4214 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4215 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4216 the fallback hosts.
4217
421822. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4219 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4220 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4221
422223. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4223 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4224 using a union.
4225
422624. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4227 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4228 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4229
423025. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4231
423226. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4233
423427. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4235
423628. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4237 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4238 become corrupted.
4239
424029. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4241 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4242 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4243 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4244 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4245 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4246 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4247 too great.
4248
424930. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4250 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4251 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4252 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4253 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4254 incorrectly.
4255
425631. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4257 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4258 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4259 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4260 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4261 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4262 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4263 cached value only when the same options are set.
4264
426532. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4266
426733. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4268 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4269 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4270 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4271 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4272
427334: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4274 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4275 it is clearly obsolete.
4276
427735. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4278 transport.
4279
428036. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4281 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4282 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4283 times.
4284
428537. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4286 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4287 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4288 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4289 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4290
429138. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4292 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4293 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4294 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4295
429639. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4297
4298 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4299
4300 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4301 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4302 2^31.
4303
430440. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4305 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4306 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4307 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4308 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4309 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4310 $localpart_data.
4311
431241. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4313 with the -f command-line option.
4314
431542. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4316 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4317 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4318 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4319 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4320 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4321
432243. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4323 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4324 line.
4325
432644. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4327 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4328 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4329 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4330 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4331 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4332 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4333 buffer is too small.
4334
433545. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4336 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4337
433846. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4339 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4340 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4341 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4342 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4343 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4344 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4345 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4346 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4347
434847. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4349 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4350 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4351
435248. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4353 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4354 ACL").
4355
435649. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4357 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4358 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4359 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4360 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4361
436250. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4363 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4364 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4365 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4366 is set.
4367
436851. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4369
437052. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4371
437253. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4373 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4374
437554. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4376 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4377 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4378
437955. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4380 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4381 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4382 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4383 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4384
438556. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4386 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4387 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4388 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4389 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4390 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4391 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4392
439357. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4394 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4395 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4396 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4397 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4398 the test of how many are available.
4399
440058. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4401 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4402 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4403 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4404 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4405 new message is started.
4406
440759. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4408 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4409
441060. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4411 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4412
441361. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4414 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4415 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4416 is no long logged.
4417
441862. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4419 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4420 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4421 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4422 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4423 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4424 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4425
442663. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4427 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4428 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4429 interpreted as octal.
4430
443164. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4432 setting.
4433
443465. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4435 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4436 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4437 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4438 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4439 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4440
444166. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4442 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4443 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4444 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4445
4446 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4447 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4448 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4449 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4450
4451 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4452 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4453 is a bug fix.
4454
4455 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4456 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4457
445867. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4459
446068. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4461 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4462 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4463 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4464
446569. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4466 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4467 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4468 supplied", which is not helpful.
4469
447070. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4471 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4472 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4473
447471. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4475 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4476 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4477 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4478 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4479 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4480 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4481 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4482
448372. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4484 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4485 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4486 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4487 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4488
448973. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4490 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4491 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4492 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4493 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4494 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4495
449674. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4497 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4498 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4499
450075. Added write_rejectlog option.
4501
450276. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4503 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4504 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4505 variables.
4506
450777. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4508
450978. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4510 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4511 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4512 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4513 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4514 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4515 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4516 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4517
451879. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4519 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4520 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4521 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4522 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4523
452480. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4525 Haardt.
4526
452781. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4528 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4529 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4530 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4531 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4532 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4533 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4534 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4535 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4536
4537
4538Exim version 4.30
4539-----------------
4540
4541 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4542 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4543 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4544
4545 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4546 fixed.
4547
4548 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4549 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4550 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4551
4552 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4553 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4554 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4555 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4556 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4557 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4558
4559 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4560 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4561 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4562 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4563 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4564 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4565 the Exim test suite.
4566
4567 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4568 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4569 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4570 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4571
4572 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4573 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4574 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4575 specify it in this variable.
4576
4577 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4578 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4579 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4580 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4581
4582 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4583 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4584 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4585 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4586
4587 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4588 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4589 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4590 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4591 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4592
4593 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4594
459510. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4596 they are logged.
4597
459811. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4599 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4600 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4601 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4602 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4603
460412. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4605 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4606
460713. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4608 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4609 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4610 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4611 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4612
461314. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4614 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4615
461615. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4617 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4618 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4619
462016. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4621 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4622
462317. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4624 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4625
462618. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4627 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4628 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4629
463019. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4631 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4632
463320. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4634 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4635 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4636 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4637
463821. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4639
464022. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4641 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4642 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4643 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4644
464523. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4646
464724. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4648 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4649
465025. Added .include_if_exists.
4651
465226. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4653 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4654 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4655 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4656 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4657 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4658
465927. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4660
466128. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4662 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4663 this.
4664
466529. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4666
466730. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4668 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4669
4670 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4671 550 Sender verify failed
4672
4673 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4674 the final line of the response.
4675
467631. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4677 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4678 all other user lookups.
4679
468032. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4681 delivery time.
4682
468333. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4684 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4685 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4686 result into an int without checking.
4687
468834. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4689 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4690 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4691
469235. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4693 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4694 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4695 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4696
469736. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4698 correctly.
4699
470037. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4701 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4702
470338. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4704 to the empty sender.
4705
470639. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4707 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4708 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4709 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4710 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4711 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4712 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4713 panic log.
4714
471540. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4716 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4717 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4718 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4719 used.
4720
472141. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4722 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4723
472442. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4725 timestamps.
4726
472743. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4728 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4729
473044. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4731
473245. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4733 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4734 logs.
4735
473646. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4737 as soon as it is encountered.
4738
473947. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4740
474148. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4742 rewritten to "<>".
4743
474449. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4745 recognizes a tab character.
4746
474750. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4748 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4749 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4750 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4751
475251. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4753
475452. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4755 crash.
4756
475753. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4758
475954. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4760
476155. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4762 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4763 2822.
4764
476556. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4766 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4767 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4768 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4769 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4770
477157. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4772 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4773
477458. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4775 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4776 list (.included file names were always shown).
4777
477859. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4779 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4780 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4781 root at that time.
4782
478360. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4784 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4785
478661. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4787
478862. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4789
479063. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4791
479264. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4793 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4794 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4795 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4796 failures to open the logs.
4797
479865. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4799 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4800 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4801 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4802 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4803 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4804 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4805
4806
4807Exim version 4.24
4808-----------------
4809
4810 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4811 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4812 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4813 change 4.23/1.
4814
4815 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4816 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4817 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4818
4819 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4820 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4821 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4822
4823 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4824 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4825 causing some misleading effects.
4826
4827 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4828 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4829 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4830
4831 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4832 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4833 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4834 queue-runner function directly.
4835
4836
4837Exim version 4.23
4838-----------------
4839
4840 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4841 HEADERS_CHARSET.
4842
4843 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4844 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4845 was always written to the default place.
4846
4847 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4848 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4849 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4850
4851 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
4852
4853 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
4854
4855 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
4856 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
4857 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
4858
4859 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
4860 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
4861 must start.
4862
4863 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
4864 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
4865 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
4866
4867 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
4868 command line option is disabled.
4869
4870 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
4871 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
4872
4873 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
4874
4875 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
4876
4877 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
4878 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
4879
488010. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
4881
488211. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
4883 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
4884 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
4885 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
4886 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
4887 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
4888
488912. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
4890 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
4891 timeout.
4892
489313. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
4894 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
4895
489614. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
4897 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
4898
489915. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
4900 received was valid base64.
4901
490216. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
4903 name of the variable that was being set.
4904
490517. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
4906
490718. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
4908 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
4909 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
4910 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
4911 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
4912 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
4913
491419. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
4915
491620. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
4917 nor realm was specified.
4918
491921. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
4920 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
4921 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
4922 errors are given to SMTP connections.
4923
492422. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
4925 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
4926 failing to send a response to QUIT.
4927
492823. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
4929 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
4930 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
4931
493224. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
4933 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
4934 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
4935 some systems use these upper case variants.
4936
493725. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
4938 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
4939 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
4940 socket" when it tried to send the third.
4941
494226. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
4943
494427. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
4945 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
4946
494728. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
4948 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
4949 expansion variable.
4950
495129. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
4952
495330. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
4954 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
4955 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
4956 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
4957
495831. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
4959 using it.
4960
496132. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
4962 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
4963 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
4964
496533. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
4966 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
4967
496834. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
4969 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
4970 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
4971 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
4972
497335. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
4974 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
4975 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
4976
497736. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
4978
497937. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
4980 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
4981 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
4982 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
4983 aborted.
4984
498538. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
4986 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
4987 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
4988
498939. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
4990
499140. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
4992 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
4993
499441. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
4995 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
4996
499742. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
4998 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
4999 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5000 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5001 when emails are that large.
5002
5003
5004
5005Exim version 4.22
5006-----------------
5007
5008 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5009 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5010
5011 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5012 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5013 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5014
5015 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5016 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5017 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5018
5019 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5020 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5021 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5022 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5023 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5024
5025 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5026 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5027 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5028 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5029 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5030 ever.
5031
5032 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5033 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5034 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5035 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5036 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5037 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5038 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5039 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5040 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5041 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5042 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5043 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5044 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5045 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5046
5047 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5048 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5049 parameterised it.
5050
5051 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5052 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5053 error should be diagnosed.
5054
5055 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5056 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5057 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5058 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5059 appeared instead of "NULL".
5060
506110. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5062 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5063 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5064 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5065 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5066 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5067 proceeds).
5068
5069 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5070 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5071 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5072
5073
5074Exim version 4.21
5075-----------------
5076
5077 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5078 or receiver verification errors.
5079
5080 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5081 name.
5082
5083 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5084 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5085 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5086 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5087
5088 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5089 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5090 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5091 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5092 shouldn't happen again.
5093
5094 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5095 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5096 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5097
5098 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5099 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5100
5101 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5102
5103 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5104 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5105
5106 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5107 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5108 RFC.
5109
511010. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5111 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5112 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5113
511411. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5115 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5116 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5117 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5118
511912. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5120 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5121 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5122 to define what should happen).
5123
512413. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5125 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5126 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5127
512814. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5129
513015. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5131
513216. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5133 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5134
513517. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5136 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5137 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5138 structure in all cases.
5139
5140 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5141 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5142 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5143 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5144
514518. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5146 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5147 domain name.
5148
514919. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5150 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5151
515220. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5153 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5154
515521. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5156 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5157 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5158
515922. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5160 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5161 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5162
516323. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5164 the book and for uniformity.
5165
516624. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5167
516825. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5169 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5170 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5171 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5172 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5173 non-existent command as the problem.
5174
517526. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5176 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5177 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5178
517927. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5180
518128. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5182 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5183 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5184
518529. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5186 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5187 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5188 timestamps using strftime().
5189
519030. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5191 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5192
519332. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5194 transport-time rewrites.
5195
519633. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5197 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5198 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5199 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5200
520134. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5202 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5203
520435. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5205 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5206 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5207 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5208 comma and a space.
5209
521036. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5211 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5212 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5213 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5214 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5215 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5216 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5217
521837. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5219 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5220 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5221 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5222 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5223
522438. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5225 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5226 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5227 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5228 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5229 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5230 remaining text gets split now.
5231
523239. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5233 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5234 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5235 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5236
523740. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5238 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5239 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5240 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5241 $return_path.
5242
524341. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5244 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5245 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5246 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5247 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5248 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5249 passed through if needed.
5250
525142. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5252 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5253 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5254 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5255 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5256 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5257
525843. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5259 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5260 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5261 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5262 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5263
526444. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5265 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5266 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5267 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5268 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5269
527045. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5271 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5272 noticed.
5273
527446. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5275 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5276 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5277 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5278 mayhem of various kinds.
5279
528047. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5281 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5282 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5283 the right test for positive values.
5284
528548. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5286 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5287 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5288 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5289 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5290 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5291 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5292 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5293 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5294 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5295 envelope.
5296
529749. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5298 module.
5299
530050. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5301 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5302 forbidding it.
5303
530451. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5305 the existing equality matching.
5306
530752. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5308 dealing with inode numbers.
5309
531053. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5311 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5312 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5313
531454. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5315 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5316 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5317 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5318 local_scan().
5319
532055. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5321 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5322 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5323 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5324 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5325 relay addresses has also been removed.
5326
532756. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5328
532957. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5330 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5331 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5332
533358. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5334 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5335 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5336 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5337 processing applies to CR:
5338
5339 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5340 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5341
5342 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5343 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5344 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5345 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5346
534759. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5348 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5349 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5350
535160. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5352 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5353 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5354 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5355 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5356 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5357 arisen.
5358
535961. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5360 program routers.
5361
536262. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5363 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5364 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5365 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5366 adds:
5367
5368 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5369
5370 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5371
5372 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5373
537463. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5375 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5376 not considered personal.
5377
537864. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5379
538065. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5381
538266. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5383
538467. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5385 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5386 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5387 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5388 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5389 header lines, and spool format errors.
5390
539168. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5392 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5393 for more flexibility.
5394
539569. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5396 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5397 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5398
539970. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5400 Sabourenkov.
5401
540271. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5403 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5404 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5405 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5406 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5407 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5408 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5409 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5410 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5411
541272. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5413 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5414 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5415 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5416 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5417 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5418 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5419
542073. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5421 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5422 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5423
542474. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5425 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5426 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5427 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5428 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5429 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5430 instead of killing the process with assert().
5431
543275. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5433 than Unicode encoding.
5434
543576. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5436 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5437 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5438 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5439
544077. Added process_log_path.
5441
544278. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5443 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5444
544579. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5446 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5447
544880. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5449 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5450 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5451
545281. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5453 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5454 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5455 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5456 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5457 were applied:
5458
5459 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5460 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5461 as invalid.
5462
546382. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5464 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5465 they will be used during message reception.
5466
5467
5468Exim version 4.20
5469-----------------
5470
5471The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5472
5473****